People & Things
Ukraine, 2028. The war is over. Olena arrives with her eight-year-old daughter Kira and her companion Tymur to collect DNA results confirming the death of her missing husband. Confronted with the exhumed victims of Russian aggression, she must choose between the present and a world that has disappeared.
Selected for the International Fiction Short Film Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2025. The film won Best International Film at LA Shorts, the Silver Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, and the Anna Wasilewska Award at WAMA. It also received jury distinctions at Krakow Film Festival, Gdynia and Opolskie Lamy. Oksana Cherkashyna received an acting distinction at Młodzi i Film, while director Damian Kosowski received the Jan Machulski Special Award.
Original title: Ludzie i rzeczy.
Produced within Munk Studio’s “Thirty Minutes” programme.
- Written & Directed by
- Damian Kosowski
- Cinematography
- Stefan Żółtowski
- Cinematography — development
- Aleksander Pozdnyakov
- Costume Design
- Olga Przylipiak
- Second Costume Designer
- Oliwia Zmysło
- Costume Design — development
- Kinga Naszkiewicz
- Production Design
- Katarzyna Tomczyk
- Editing
- Natalia Jacheć
- Sound
- Adam Sypka
- Starring
- Oksana Cherkashyna, Kira Makidon, Stanislav Voitsekhovskyi, Grażyna Misiorowska
- Producers
- Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek
- Executive Producer
- Zofia Kochan
- Produced by
- Munk Studio — Polish Filmmakers Association
- Co-produced by
- Zohan Zofia Kochan, INDEKS Film Studio, Podkarpacki Regional Film Fund, Wide Shot Foundation
- Co-financed by
- Polish Film Institute
Stills from People & Things (2024), directed by Damian Kosowski.