37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Siemiany

Philip James McGoldrick

Image Siemiany
BelgiumPoland
2009 Fiction 18 min
Andrzej and Michal are two young teenagers who meet up every summer in the small tourist village of Siemiany in the middle of the countryside. Their friendship has grown as they have. And the boredom of the countryside and the feeling of unity between them, takes their friendship to a new level of sexually loaded intimacy.
With : Damian Ul, Michal Wlodarczyk, Kamil Grenda, Aleksandra Radwanka, Joanna Opozda
Screenplay : Philip James McGoldrick
Image : Nicolas Karakatsanis
Editing : Tom Denoyette
Sound : Yves De Mey, Antoine Vandendriessche
Music : Raf Keunen
Production : Blondinka, contact : Ben Vandendaele// Voorlopige Bewindstraat 3 Bus 8 // 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique // Tel : +32477632746 / Email : ben@siemianythemovie.eu
Philip James McGoldrick (born 25 August 1987 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Brussels-based filmmaker of Irish nationality. He recently finished his Master's degree in Audiovisual Arts at the RITS film academy in Brussels and is currently promoting his short film debut Siemiany, a coming-of-age drama about Polish teenagers in a phase of sexual exploration.