BE SOMEBODY

2023
SHORT FICTION

BE SOMEBODY

A common guy, an electrician named Wiktor moves in with his family to a new apartment. Soon they find out that the apartment used to belong to Lech Walesa, a former Polish President and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who started out as an electrician. Wiktor’s wife, Sylwia, starts to make money on foreign tourists, turning their new home into a museum and her husband into Walesa’s impersonator. Sylwia’s new obsession leads to Wiktor’s confrontation with Walesa’s legend.

DIR. MICHAŁ TOCZEK

DOP. TOMASZ PAWLIK

SELECTED AWARDS

SELECTED SCREENINGS

• 39. Warsaw Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
• mBank New Horizons iff (Poland, 2023)
• Euroshorts Film Festival (Poland,2023)
• 48. Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (Poland, 2023)
• Kraków Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
• FamuFest in Prague (Czech Republic, 2024)
• Wama Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
• 41. Busan International Short Film Festival (Republic of Korea, 2024)