GLORIOUS SUMMER (2025) by Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak
Drama SCI FI Colour 90' PL Polish Language
Special Jury Award Poster Design SXSW 2025

Festivals International Competition - New Horizons IFF 25 WP - Global SXSW 2025


Three women live in a palace where all needs are met but there's just one rule: It's forbidden to cross the surrounding wall.


In a sun-drenched Renaissance palace women exist in an airy state of suspension, a liminal, responsibility-free bubble, where summer never ends. Soon, cracks begin to appear in this idyllic picture. Long-suppressed anger and a desperate need to escape emerge. Will girls raised in perpetual immaturity, be able to overcome fear?


★★★★ 1/2

- Loud and Clear

★★★★ "Haunting"

- Collider

"Ignorance is Bliss"

- Variety

"Beautiful Sun-Drenched Illusion"

- Film Obsessive

"Sumptuous, sinister, and aptly named"

- Reel News Daily

"Alluring Look at Emptiness"

- Film Book

"A sun-drenched hellscape"

- Awards Watch


Directors

Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak


Producers

Maria Gołos, Monika Matuszewska


Screenwriters

Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak


Cinematographer

Tomasz WoĽniczka


Editor

Alan Zejer


Production Designer

Katarzyna Tomczyk


Sound Designer

Marcin Jachyra, Maciej Amilkiewicz


Music

Bartosz Szpak


Principal Cast

Magdalena Fejdasz-Hanczewska, Helena Ganjalyan,

Daniela Komędera, Weronika Humaj


Co-financed by

Polish Film Institute