Original name: Reset
English name: Reset
Year: 2024
Run time: 95 minutes
Language: Polish
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Poland
Director: Patricia Ryczko
Producer: Patricia Ryczko
Cast: Kasia Borek, Karolina Micula, Julia Polaczek, Marieta Zukowska
Screenplay: Patricia Ryczko
Cinematographer: Grzegorz Korczak
Editor: Morten Rud
Sound Designer: Piotr Borczynski
Music Composer: Jimmy Svennson
Costume Designer: Ewa Klos
Production Designer: Wojtek Pawlak
Production Company: Storygeist Film
World Sales: Reel Suspects
Director, and screenwriter, who graduated from Polish National Film School and Wajda Film School, Patricia Ryczko’s feature debut I am REN had its world premiere at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival in 2019, and the polish theatrical release in 2020. Her short films have won quite a few international prizes. Ryczko is known as a published author, her first novel, a Scandinavian psychological thriller A Child Made to Order placed itself among the top-selling novels in the Mystery & Suspense category on Amazon UK & US.
Sonja, 41, is a dedicated housewife raising her 10-year-old daughter, Mia. She has kept her civil partnership with Adela, 27, hidden from everyone out of fear. One day, Sonja’s Citizen Pass suddenly stops working, stripping away all her freedoms. Unbeknownst to her, this glitch will unveil her past, a past she desperately concealed from the state to avoid persecution as a terrorist. Set in the near future, the story unfolds in a dystopian world shaped by the policies of an authoritarian Eastern Bloc government. Here, a nightmare digital dictatorship reigns, with Citizen Passes dictating access to public services and personal liberties.