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The Silent Twins | Le gemelle silenziose

Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Regno Unito-Polonia-USA | 2022 | 113’

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and ’80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turns inward and rejects communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

Direction: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Animation: Barbara Rupik, Jofre Balboa, Albert Coen
Screenplay: Andrea Seigel
Cinematography: Jakub Kijowski
Editing: Agnieszka Glińska
Sound Design: Maria Chilarecka, Michał Fojcik, Matthias Schwab, Marcin Lenarczyk
With: Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrence, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Eva-Arianna Baxter, Nadine Marshall, Treva Etienne, Michael Smiley, Jodhi May, Jack Bandeira
Producer: Ben Pugh, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Anita Gou, Joshua Horsfield, Alicia Van Couvering, Letitia Wright, Ewa Puszczyńska, Saskia Gigi Duff, Cobbie Yates
Production: Kindred Spirit, Madants, 42, 30WEST, Moderator Inwestycje, Canal+

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Polish film and television writer and director, she studied at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. She debuted with the length-feature film The Lure (2015), screened for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival; her movie The Silent Twins was presented at Cannes Film Festival in 2022 and won the Golden Lions Award at Gdynia Film Festival.