The Pool or Death of a Goldfish / Basen albo śmierć złotej rybki / Bazen ali smrt zlate ribice

Daria Kopiec (Marmolada Films)
2025, Poland, 13'48''

A story about a possessive relationship between a mother and her daughter. Unspoken words, gestures, and repressed childhood emotions manifest in harsh treatment of both herself and others.

Zgodba o posesivnem odnosu med materjo in hčerjo. Neizrečene besede, geste in potlačena otroška čustva se kažejo v surovem odnosu do sebe in drugih.

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Language: Polish
Recommended for children under 14 years old: No
Technique: Clay animation

Team

Script: Daria Kopiec
Animation: Bartosz Kotarski, Urszula Domańska, Anna Polińska
Music: Natalia Czekała
Production: Justyna Rucińska, Tomasz Łaptaszyński (Marmolada Films)

Daria Wiktoria Kopiec

is a film and theater director. A graduate of the Directing Department of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw and the Film School in Łódź at the Cinematography Department, specialisation: Animation and Special Effects. Trainee at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels – La Cambre in Brussels. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2017 program. She made internationally acclaimed animated films Cosmos 2016 (Annecy, main competition) and Your Own Bullshit 2019 (USA Austin, SXSW, jury special mention). She gained recognition in the theatre community with her play The Daughters of Lear, appreciated by audiences in many countries, and the television theatre The Rita G. Affair 2018 (Grand Prix at the TEATROTEKA FEST festival). Currently, she has finished work on the plasticine animation The Pool or Death of a Goldfish and is finishing the live-action short It's All Because of Her.