Directed by Agnieszka Holland • 2017 • Poland

Two of Poland’s cultural titans join forces as veteran auteur Agnieszka Holland adapts Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead into a propulsive eco-thriller. Agnieszka Mandat is magnetic as Duszejko, an animal rights activist living alone in a mountain village populated by hunting enthusiasts. When local men start succumbing to a mysterious assailant, Duszejko finds herself at the centre of a web of suspicion and conspiracy. Making fine use of the rough beauty of the Polish borderlands and shot through with expertly-controlled tension, Spoor marked a return to form for Holland, as well as a return to her homeland after years spent on European productions.

SPOOR • POKOT
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Written by Agnieszka Holland and Olga Tokarczuk
From the novel Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Cinematography by Jolanta Dylewska and Rafal Paradowski
Music by Antoni Lazarkiewicz
Starring: Agnieszka Mandat, Jakub Gierszał, Wiktor Zborowski

In Polish with English subtitles

Winner of the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2017