When an aspiring Polish artist, Patryk, struggles to sell his paintings, he finds himself at Tear Dealer, a unique art project letting people in poverty trade their tears for złoty. Surrounded by sobs and mirrors, however, he is unable to shed a tear. It’s then that he meets Maria, the project’s conceiver and an art therapist from a well-off family. As their romance buds, they swap traumas and art, discovering they may share more than they thought. Loosely based on a real-life artist, the film is an intriguing take on modern love, vulnerable masculinity, and lives altered by a relationship and breakup.
Screenwriters - Agata K. Koschmieder, Łukasz Ronduda
Featuring - Jan Sałasiński, Izabella Dudziak
Cinematographer - Weronika Bilska
Music - Marcin Lenarczyk
"An emotionally saturated yet finely wrought romantic drama, where catharsis and meaning go hand in hand"
"Achingly sincere."
"All about the human psyche – its unwieldiness, its exploitation, and the improbable task of trying to link psychic lives together"
Director and screenwriter. Films: THE PERFORMER (together with M. Sobieszczański, Berlinale, Think Film Award) and A HEART OF LOVE (Berlinale, Rotterdam). Ronduda is also a contemporary art curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.