Plesnar & Krauss Films

Marek Hłasko, ”the Polish James Dean”, a writer and a reveler, comes to Israel in the late 1950s. This land and people become his inspiration, and at the same time a trap for him. He carefully observes immigrants who try to settle in a new place.

In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. They had become the stakes in a political game: Belarus supposedly guaranteed free passage to the EU, but in Poland the refugees met with pushbacks, forcing them back across the border. Once in Belarus again, they were driven back towards Poland—a horrific stalemate in an inhospitable landscape of treacherous marshes.

Wiktoria and Franek decide to take another action, this time in the Catholic church. Hybrid in content and form, the documentary "Bad Poles" tells the story of two young LGBTQ+ activists who, in their social and performative actions, fight disinformation, violence and hate speech, especially the formal and institutional ones. Their latest action takes place during Holy Mass. Opposed to the reality around them, they try to change it in their own way, regardless of the consequences.