Lessons of Love

Name: Lessons of Love
Director: Malgorzata Goliszewska,Kasia Mateja
Released: 2019

Malgorzata Goliszewska Kasia Mateja 2019

Free-spirited Jola, after escaping from a marital nightmare is letting loose with her friends and finds herself thrust into a new romance at a Latino dancing class. The drama evolves when the conservative powers of her generation try to justify her abusive husband. A highly cinematic and joyful journey into a woman’s battle to reinvent herself in her best age of life, when you are 69.

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Running Time:

75 min.

Spoken Languages:

Polish

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Malgorzata Goliszewska Kasia Mateja

Producers:

Anna Stylinska, Izabela Łopuch

Cinematographers:

Kasia Mateja, Mateusz Czuchnowski, Tymon Tykwinkski

Editors:

Alan Zejer

Production Companies:

Widok Films

Festival Participation

IDFA - 2019
One World Prague - 2020
Hot Docs - 2020
DOK.fest München - 2020
Sydney FF - 2020
New Zealand IFF - 2020
DOKer - 2020
Millennium Docs Against Gravity - 2020
Bergen IFF - 2020
DOC NYC - 2020

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