Breathtakingly painted intimate and mesmerizingly sonic drama about seduction, yearning for love, infidelity, slander, and retribution over four seasons. It took Dorota and Hugh Welchman four years to produce an awesome blend of painting, animation, splendidly arranged Polish folk songs, and lively dance performances.

125 painters from Poland, Lithuania, Serbia, and Ukraine joined the directors of the award-winning “Loving Vincent''. In the Lithuanian studio, eight painters worked for two years to oil paint at least six frames of each shot before the digital painting animators applied their magic. Perfectionist Dorota made corrections and changes even after the world premiere in Toronto, but now she will have a chance to draw attention from the Academy Awards.

A graphic novel by Nobel Prize winner Władysław Reymont leads to the village of Lipce. Gorgeous Jagna is forced to marry a much older wealthy widower Maciej Boryna, but she secretly desires his lustful son Antek, who betrays his wife Hanka and their children. A confrontation between libertine Antek and tyrannical Maciej evolves into the whole gossiping village turning against the adulterous Jagna.

Edvinas Pukšta