External Link External Link

Silent Love is a coming-of-age and a coming-out story. Aga, 35, is legally adopting her teenage brother, Milosz, after their mother’s death – a process that invites intense probing into her lifestyle. However, there’s something she can’t share in their conservative Polish village: her long-term relationship with her girlfriend Maja.

Synopsis

35-year-old Aga is legally adopting her teenage brother, Milosz, after their mother’s death – a process that invites intense probing into her lifestyle and ability to be a caregiver. However, there’s something she can’t share about herself in their conservative Polish village: her long-term relationship with her girlfriend Maja. Aga has always hidden her relationship from friends and family, and must continue to hide it from the social workers for fear of losing her case for Milosz. The tender images of a relationship freely lived away from prying eyes are countered by the traditional family social norms to which Milosz is subjected at school, and the personal questions of the court where Aga must make a good impression. Silent Love is a coming-of-age and a coming-out story about embracing new roles and redefining old ones - delicately capturing this trio's discreet struggle as they begin to live as a family, against the prejudices of an ultra-conservative and viscerally homophobic society.

Media Gallery

Filmmaker Marek Kozakiewicz talks to the camera

“This is such a beautiful film -- subtle, understated and emotionally attuned.”
- Graeme Reid, Director, LGBT Rights, Human Rights Watch

May 23, 2023
Poland: Proposed Law Threatens Children’s Rights
May 8, 2023
Polish Activists Win Cases Against ‘LGBT-Free Zones’

Credits

Marek Kozakiewicz (he/him)

Director
Man with brown curly hair and a slight mustache looks at the camera. He has pale skin and a white t-shirt, standing in a field with blue sky behind him

Born in 1986, film director and cinematographer; video and multimedia artist. He graduated from the National Film School in Łódź (PWSFTviT) at the Faculty of Cinematography. He also completed Film Studies at the University of Lodz. His full-length documentary directorial debut ""Silent Love"" (for which he was also the cinematographer) was officially selected for Visions Du Reel and Hotdocs 2022. The film is produced by KOI Studio in co-production with MDR and ARTE. The project was awarded at the DOC LAB POLAND and received the Accelerator Prize at DOK Leipzig 2019 Film Market. Marek is especially dedicated to working on documentaries. Currently, as a director and cinematographer, he is working on his new film about non-binary youth in Poland, produced by Netflix Originals. The films he shot were shown at the largest film festivals around the world. He is the cinematographer of the full-length documentary ""Diagnosis"", which you can watch on Netflix. The film was nominated for Polish Oscars ORŁY 2019 award in the Best Documentary Film category. For this film, Marek was nominated by PSC for the best polish cinematography award in documentary film 2019. He also shot the film ""The Ugliest Car in the World"", which had it’s world premiere at IDFA 2017 (main competition) and received the Grand Prix for the best Polish film at the 57th Krakow Film Festival.