EDEN – Polish Film Festival in America

Cast
Natalia Jedrus (Mila), Nadim Suleiman (Refugee)

In the European Union borderland, seventeen-year-old Mila vegetates in the shadow of her smuggling family. Numbers of contraband cigarettes and bottles of vodka measure her existence. Tired of her walking-dead life, she wants to end it. Far from everyone, Mila tries to gas herself to death in a car deep in the woods. Things get complicated when her passage to a better world is brought to a halt by a Syrian refugee. Unlike her, the young, resilient man won’t give up on life without a fight.

MARTA SZYMANEK
Psychologist by vocation and screenwriter and director by passion. She has worked for such producers and broadcasters as HBO, TVN and Platige Image. Graduate of the Wajda School, where she completed the Development Lab Programme. She also participated in the TFL Series Lab. Co-creator of the two-time Eagle-winning series The Border. Originator and screenwriter of the series The Thaw. Lecturer at the Warsaw Film School. She currently works on her full-length directing debut.