I Never Cry
Year: 2020Certificate: 15
- Director:
- Piotr Domalewski
- Cast:
- Zofia Stafiej, Kinga Preis, Arkadiusz Jakubik
- Running Time:
- 98 mins
- Language:
- English, Polish
- English Subtitles:
- Yes
- Country of Origin:
- Ireland, Poland
- Genre(s):
- Comedy, Drama, Film
- Formats:
Available to screen from 1 October 2021.
'[A] moving drama, filled with black humour and empathy, that would make Ken Loach proud.'— Cineuropa
Writer-director Piotr Domalewski’s (Silent Night) dark comedy has won acclaim and numerous awards in his native Poland. A Polish-Irish co-production, I Never Cry explores the cruelly ubiquitous loss of a parent through the eyes of a young woman, and prompts the viewer to reconsider their role in the lives of others.
Ola (Zofia Stafiej), a rebellious teenager from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life.
Inspired by films such as Manchester By The Sea and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and set-in modern-day Poland and Ireland, I Never Cry is a piercing, realistic look at the difficulties faced by families separated by emigration, told against the backdrop of the life of Polish workers abroad.