A decades-spanning portrait of a transgender Polish woman on a journey of self-discovery is at the heart of Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s “Woman Of,” the latest from the two-time Berlin…
A decades-spanning portrait of a transgender Polish woman on a journey of self-discovery is at the heart of Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s “Woman Of,” the latest from the two-time Berlin Silver Bear winner and her longtime collaborator. The film premieres Sept. 8 in competition at theWritten by the directing duo, “Woman Of” tells the story of Aniela Wesoły, who for almost half her life has lived as a man in a provincial Polish town.
“Woman Of,” which also stars “Cold War” breakout Joanna Kulig, is produced by No-Mad Films and Plio in co-production with Film i Väst and Common Ground Pictures. The producers are Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Katarzyna Jordan-Kulczyk, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień, Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and the co-producers are Jonas Kellagher and Kristina Borjeson. The movie was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
It would take two decades for that vision to finally translate to a script, and even then, the final pieces of the puzzle only clicked into place “miraculously,” after several years struggling to finance the film. “There are people who have been very brave to support us,” says Szumowska, with private equity instrumental in getting the movie off the ground. Principal photography began in February and wrapped in late June.
“Even though the LGBTQ community is bigger and stronger than before, it’s still not recognized and not represented in the film [industry],” says Szumowska. “It was impossible for us,” adds Englert. “So many people from our generation lived in secret before coming out. They were not able to get the proper education in film schools, in theater schools. You don’t have professional [transgender] actors in their mid-40s, mid-50s.
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