We Haven’t Lost Our Way

Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal return to New Horizons with their latest film, which premiered in the Forum section of this year’s Berlinale. After rewriting Camus’ The Stranger into The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me, they moved on to Swedish writer Per Christian Jersild and his novel To Warmer Lands, to once again explore the tremors of Polish reality. They look at the life of a woman and a man at a crossroads - in two separate stories that perhaps have something in common. Ewa (Agnieszka Żulewska) is an English teacher and translator, but she is hired as a caregiver for an elderly lady, whom she is to entertain with reading and conversation. Eryk (Andrzej Konopka) works at a university, but is more interested in helping those in need rather than in literature, which - just like his quick temper - causes him a lot of problems. They both have difficult personalities and feel that they don’t get as much from life as they deserve. There could be more points of contact - a shared past or future? With cool observation, We Haven’t Lost Our Way examines the characters’ alienation levels, the curvature of the time they are stuck in, and the limits of being in the world on their own terms.