Glimpses of Europe | Short Film Competition

Stimulants & Empathogens

25 min. | Drama, Comig-of-Age | Pegi 13

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Antek (18), a a closeted teenage gay from a wealthy family, invites a drug dealer - Kuba (18) - he has a hopeless crush on - to his villa under the pretext of another drug transaction. However, he does not know that Kuba has a mission that he received from his superiors - his father and his brother.

Mateusz Pacewicz

Mateusz Pacewicz

Mateusz Pacewicz (b. 1992) made his screenwriting debut in 2019 with the film Corpus Christi (directed by Jan Komasa). Pacewicz’s second screenplay, The Hater, won the Best International Feature Award at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Mateusz also co-wrote and co-directed the short film Heat.
Languages
Polish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Stymulanty & Empatogeny
Produced
2024: Poland

Film information

Director
Mateusz Pacewicz
Producers
Katarzyna Madaj-Kozłowska, Filip Marczewski
Screenplay
Mateusz Pacewicz
Cast
Michał Murawski, Gracjan Kosyl, Grzegorz Małecki, Anita Sokołowska, Andrzej Konopka

Screenings

Friday, 14 November

18:40

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 11

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