ZIMA
26'26'' | Directed by Tomek Popakul
Second director Kasumi Ozeki


It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes.

Anka loves cats. And Jesus.
In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice.
Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal
interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty.
An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.

CREDITS

Written and directed by
Tomek Popakul

Second director
Kasumi Ozeki

Animation
Jakub Baniak, Magdalena Basińska, Magdalena Botor, Alicja Błaszczyńska, Agnieszka Czachór, Jagoda Czarnowska, Patrycja Ćmak, Alicja Grotuz, Karolina Kajetanowicz, Olga Kłyszewicz, Marcin Kotliński, Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Agata Mianowska, Katarzyna Melnyk, Michalina Musialik, Maria Nitek, Michał Orzechowski, Marcin Podolec, Tomek Popakul, Weronika Szyma, Marcjanna Urbańska, Pola Włodarczyk

3D models and animation
Jacek Mazur, Krzysztof Rakszawski, Tomek Popakul

Designed by
Tomek Popakul

Edited by
Tomek Popakul

Creative support
Yellow Tapir Films: Patrycja Ćmak, Agata Mianowska-Zamarło, Marcin Podolec, Wiktoria Podolec, Konrad Sierzputowski, Kacper Zamarło

Actors
Marek Beylin, Bartosz Bielenia, Tymon Jankowski, Stanisław Jaskułka,
Mauri Sxnchez, Mateusz Kmiecik, Janusz Komorowski, Maciej Malec, Nina Michnik, Anna Pyrka, Maurycy Stankiewicz, Bartosz Woch, Wojciech Wysocki, Magdalena Zawadzka

Voices recorded by
Studio Praga

Music
Bluebird – c/o Kevin Richard Martin (King Midas Sound)
„We Come Through the Sun” – Circle of Ouroborus
„Life Giver Life Taker” – Godflesh
„BMW” – 19 Wiosen
„Soutu” – Tenhi
„Why” – AIT!

Soud postproduction
SOUND MIND

Sound designer / re-recording mixer
Michał Fojcik MPSE

Sound effects editor
Barbara Kapica

Foley artist
Wojciech Iskierka

Foley mixer
Jan Rey

Foley editor
Bartłomiej Magdoń

Production manager
Michał Benkes

Production support
Konrad Sierzputowski

Producer
Yellow Tapir Films sp. z o.o.
Marcin Podolec
Wiktoria Podolec

Co-produced by
„EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury” w Łodzi

Film co-financed by the Polish Film Institute

© 2023 Yellow Tapir Films / EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury

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