INFORMATION PORTAL OF THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE OF THE KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE Region IN TORUŃ

The latest film by Wojciech Smarzowski, The Good House, has been presented last Saturday (October 25) during a special premiere showing in Bydgoszcz. At the gala at Opera Nova, hosted by Grażyna Torbicka, the director and the lead actors were present. The Marshal’s regional Fundusz Filmowy Kujawy Pomorze (Film Fund Kujawy-Pomorze) is participating in the financing of the film.

The Good House is a film about love, manipulation and domestic violence. In reviews after its showings at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival (where the director received the award of the Polish Federation of Film Discussion Clubs) and the Warsaw Film Festival (special award for the main cast), Smarzowski was criticised, among other things, for journalistic simplifications in the plot and for one-dimensional characters drawn with a very heavy brush. However, no one doubts that the film is important, interesting and well made. And that it must be seen.

The Marshal’s Film Fund Kujawy-Pomorze, operating for several years, was established as a tool for promoting the region (also as a place friendly to creators and creative industries), and ultimately also to support the regional economy (creative industries, including the film industry, generate jobs and tax revenue).

“We established the Film Fund as a tool for supporting valuable productions, which is also to inspire creators to make films in our region. We believe that together we can create cinema that moves, builds identity and remains in the viewers’ memory for a long time. We are aware of how great a role cinematography plays today not only as a form of artistic expression, but also as a force building the image of a place and engaging the local communities,” emphasises Marshal Piotr Całbecki.

With the participation of our funds, among others, The Good Boy by Jan Komasa, Intersection with Jan Englert, Seasons directed by Michał Grzybowski have been produced, and earlier (even before the Film Fund was established) also 11 Minutes by Jerzy Skolimowski and the film by Janusz Majewski Excentrics, or on the Sunny Side of the Street. We also financed the currently in-cinemas blockbuster Chopin, Chopin! (dir. Michał Kwieciński, awarded at the Gdynia festival for costume design and set design) and the film shot in Toruń old-town Gingerbread Heart by Piotr Wereśniak (premiere in November). Thanks to support from the Film Fund Kujawy-Pomorze, film-making will also be undertaken by master Krzysztof Zanussi.

Since 2022 we have been awarding the Film Award of the Marshal of the Region. Among laureates are, among others: Jerzy Skolimowski, Jan Holoubek, Jan Jakub Kolski, Stanisław Janicki, Krzysztof Zanussi, Leonard Pietraszak, Jan Englert, Katarzyna Figura, Daniel Olbrychski, Agnieszka Dulęba-Kasza, Magdalena Różdżka and Agnieszka Smoczyńska. During the Fonomo Music & Film Festival the award was received by film-music composer Jerzy Rogiewicz, and at the beginning of November, during the Old Film Festival, Anna Dymna will receive one too.

Press Office of the Marshal’s Office of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region

October 23, 2025

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