Matuszyński scoops top awards at Polish Film Festival

The film, which is Matuszyński’s feature film debut, focuses on the last three decades in the life of Poland's highly-acclaimed surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, radio journalist and translator whose hypersensitive and unnerving personality gives his mother constant cause for concern while the father tries to dedicate himself to his art.

After Tomasz’s suicide attempt, his parents start fighting not only for their son, but also for regaining control of their own lives.

Andrzej Seweryn and Aleksandra Konieczna, who portray the Beksiński couple in the film, received the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards. “The Last Family” also received the Audience Prize.

The Silver Lions went to Maciej Pieprzyca’s “I Am a Killer”, a psychological thriller inspired by a police hunt for a serial killer of women in the early 1970s, and Tomasz Wasilewski won Best Director Award for ”United States of Love”, which shows four seemingly happy women of different ages who, in 1990, the time of the political and economic transition in Poland, have an irresistible desire to change their lives.

Sixteen features competed for the festival awards. (mk/rg/di)