Papusza (Doll) | (126 min; 2013; Polish & Roma with English subtitles)

Directors: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze

Multiple award winner including Best Polish Film, Association of Polish Filmmakers Critics Awards 2013; Special Mention, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013; awards for Best Score, Supporting Actor & Best Makeup, Polish Film Festival 2013; Best Director, Best Actor & Youth Jury Award, Valladolid International Film Festival 2013; among others

Biopic on Papusza, the first Roma woman to write and publish her poems thereby contesting the traditional role of women in her gypsy community. The film follows Papusza’s life from birth to old age. The well-known Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski, discovered her great talent for poetry and published her works which led to a tragic paradox: a famous poet living in poverty, rejected by the Roma community for betraying their secrets