Floating Skyscrapers

Tribeca 2013
Official Selection
BFI London 2013
Official Selection

Floating Skyscrapers

A Film by Tomasz Wasilewski

2013 - Poland - Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 93 min.

with Mateusz Banasiuk , Marta Nieradkiewicz , Bartosz Gelner & Katarzyna Herman

Language: Polish
Produced by Roman Jarosz & Izabela Igel

The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.

Tribeca 2013
Official Selection
BFI London 2013
Official Selection

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