THE HORSE TAIL is the feature-length debut film by Justyna Łuczaj, a graduate of Film and Television Directing and doctoral studies at our School. The artistic supervisor of the film is Mariusz Grzegorzek. Producer: Marcin Malatyński.

So far the film has been, among others, in the competition of full-length feature debuts at the Koszalin "Youth and Film" Festival, in the VISUAL FRONT series of the New Horizons festival, and was also the film closing the Torino Underground Cinefest. The next opportunity to see it is the screening at the Muranów Cinema in Warsaw (5, Gen. Anders Street). We invite you on Wednesday, December 20 at 8.30 p.m. The screening will be followed by a discussion of the filmmakers with the audience. Are you coming? Confirm your presence by writing to dagna@studioindeks.pl.

The Horse Tail is a modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an undefined place (in a town at the foot of a cliff between a rubbish dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. After years of absence, Diana returns to town with milk dripping from her breasts. She is depressed and has lapses in memory. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect Maj befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the daughter of the victim. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the corrupt world. When a horsetail wraps around them while they are playing in the river, Maj knows it's a bad sign.

THE HORSE TAIL, 2022
screenplay and direction: Justyna Łuczaj
cinematography: Małgorzata Szyłak
editing: Urszula Klimek-Piątek, Paweł Laskowski, Justyna Łuczaj production management: Konrad Wróblewski, Dagna Kidoń
artistic supervision: Mariusz Grzegorzek
producer: Marcin Malatyński // INDEKS Film Studio
poster designers: Witold Gretzyngier, Julia Rut

Justyna Łuczaj is a painter, director, screenwriter, and producer born in 1975 in Krosno. She is a graduate of the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the Directing Department at the National Film School in Łódź. She graduated with PhD at Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the Lodz Film School and is an assistant at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów. She made her directorial debut in 2002 with the short film “Waiting for Love” and has since directed several other productions, including the award-winning “T. Rickster” (2007) and the historical documentary “The Archive of Existing Cases”( "Archiwum istnień" ) in 2009.

See the trailer vimeo.com
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ed. JK