RESETTLEMENT

What’s it like for old people who find themselves obliged to move out of the place that’s always been their home? The cheerful optimist Maria, 82, and her husband Tadeusz, 80, a quietly pessimistic academic, have lived in a flat in the Polish town of Poznan for the past 66 years. But the rent demanded by the new owner of the building is beyond their means. They now have six months to find alternative accommodation and take leave of the home to which they’ve become deeply attached. Their conversations about the imminent loss of their familiar surroundings, the place Maria grew up and later cared for her invalid parents, are the starting point for happy, but also painful, memories of bygone times. Their grandson, the Vienna-based filmmaker Filip Antoni Malinowski, offers them support in this existential crisis and helps them search for a new home. A film about injustice and inequality that also takes stock of ongoing social-economic transformations and changing mentalities in post-communist Poland, the effects of which are felt most keenly, perhaps, by the older generation.