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SCREENING, ONLINE PRESENTATION

Never Coming Back

Oct 13 — Oct 31, 2021

Dir. Mikołaj Lizut. Poland. 2020, 62 mins. In Polish with English subtitles. Teenage girls Gosia, Dominika, Ewelina, and Alicja are all alumni of a youth educational center in the Northeast of Poland, where they were placed by the Court as punishment for skipping school, abusing substances, and committing petty crimes. But they are also victims themselves, emotionally neglected kids from dysfunctional families who have experienced domestic violence. Over the course of the film their stories emerge, including that of Dominika, who dreams of having a child of her own—the only promise of unconditional love she has known. New York premiere

Streaming online.