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Vika!

Vika!
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Audience Competition 2023
Documentary Film
Poland,
Germany,
Finland
2023
74 minutes
Polish,
English
Subtitles: 
English

Imagine the last day of your life has dawned. What will stand up to review? What brings contentment? What brings regrets? “Vika!” is a film about the value of life and self-discovery, inspiring us to reflect on one’s chosen path and its forks and to stay true to oneself.

Vika, the 84-year-old main protagonist, a mother and grandmother several times over, looks back on a difficult childhood and many years of working in a “proper” job. When she retired, she seized the opportunity to reinvent herself. She became a DJ and star of the Warsaw nightclubs, who regularly drives her young audience wild. Super cool? Inappropriate for an elderly lady? Agnieszka Zwiefka’s portrait deconstructs the borders between the “acceptable” and “unacceptable” roles of a woman who refuses to acknowledge her age. Vika wants to live in the moment, with no ties to the past. Zwiefka combines elements of music and narrative documentary films and creates an enchanting, immediately accessible and utopian world. Dancing to Vika’s rhythms means freeing yourself from the limitations dictated by society, age and sometimes even one’s own children.

Victoria Leshchenko

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Director
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Script
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Cinematographer
Monika Kotecka
Editor
Katarzyna Orzechowska, Michał Poddębniak
Producer
Katarzyna Ślesicka, Anna Stylińska
Co-Producer
Heino Deckert, Tina Börner, Outi Rousu, Elena Filippini
Sound
Katarzyna Szczerba, Anna Rok
Sound Design
Pietari Koskinen
Score
Paivi Takala
World Sales
Liselot Verbrugge
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize