Polish movie to compete at Sundance

Image: Lasting, Sundance Festival - press materials

Lasting (Nieulotne) is the story of two Polish students who fall in love in with each other while working in Valencia on a summer job.

An unforeseen event shatters the idyll, throwing their lives into chaos.

“Through the eyes of young people, we watch the collapse of their seemingly well-ordered world,” Borcuch told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Lasting sees Borcuch hook up once again with young actor of the moment Jakub Gierszal, who won acclaim for his role in the director's previous film, All that I love (Wszystko co Kocham), a drama centred on an aspiring rock and roll band in the last days of communism.

The film was Poland's candidate for the Oscars in the foreign language category, but it did not make the final academy short-list.

Gierszal plays opposite Magdalena Berus, who recently starred in Kasia Roslaniec's Baby Blues.

Sundance begins in Park City, Utah on 17 January, and Lasting will go on general release in Poland on 8 February. (nh)