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    The Pool or Death of a Goldfish

    Daria Kopiec
    Poland | 2025 | 13’40’’

    The Pool or Death of a Goldfish is a story about a possessive relationship between a mother and her daughter. The main character, through unexpressed anger and rebellion against her mother, transforms into a titular goldfish. Unspoken words, gestures, and repressed childhood emotions manifest in harsh treatment of both herself and others. The film is framed by a compositional structure in which the main character finally allows herself to feel grief, thereby entering a process of self-acceptance and forgiveness.

    Original Title:Basen albo smierc zlotej rybki
    Direction: Daria Kopiec
    Animation: Bartosz Kotarski, Urzula Domanska, Anna Polinska
    Screenplay: Daria Kopiec
    Editing: Monika Sirojc
    Sound Design: Agata Chodyra
    Music: Natalia Czekala
    Producer: Tomasz Laptaszynksi, Justyna Rucinska
    Production: Polish Film Institute, Marmolada Films, Tufel, Eca Lodz

    Daria Kopiec

    Film and theater director. A graduate of the Directing Department of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw and the Film School in Lódz at the Cinematography Department, specialisation: Animation and Special Effects. Trainee at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels – La Cambre in Brussels. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2017 program. She made internationally acclaimed animated films Cosmos in 2016 (Annecy, Main Competition) and Your Own Bullshit in 2019 (USA Austin, SXSW, Jury Special Mention). She gained recognition in the theatre community with her play The Daughters of Lear, appreciated by audiences in many countries, and the television theatre The Rita G. Affair in 2018 (Grand Prix at the TEATROTEKA FEST Festival). Currently, she has finished work on the plasticine animation The Pool or Death of a Goldfish and is finishing the live-action short It’s All Because of Her.