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Europa Cinemas Award Venice Film Festival 2007
Golden Lion Best Film, Polish Film Festival 2007

4* “Charm oozes from every frame of Tricks, a lyrical, sun-kissed portrait” Daily Express
3* “charming” The Times
3* “a small Polish charmer” The Finanical Times


Stefek is a smart 6-year-old, living in a small Polish town; his sister Elka is eighteen. They live with their mother, since their father has moved in with another woman in another town. Mother works in a store all day long, Elka washes dishes in a bar, but studies Italian and competes for an assistant’s job in an Italian firm. The boy spends time accompanying his sister and her fiancé Jerzy, a car mechanic. She gives to her kid brother all the knowledge she learned at motivational courses about how to create the world around him. How can you make a paper bag thrown beside a rubbish bin get inside the bin, as it should be? What do you have to do to make an apple seller, ignored by customers, sell his all stock at one fell swoop? Stefek is a quick learner and, consequently, his first experiments in giving order to his surroundings – though naïve at first glance – turn out to work. Yet this is only an overture to his riskiest experiment, though fraught with gravest consequences. One day at the rail station, Stefek notices a man similar to his father, whom he does not remember well. Leaving for work every day, the man changes trains there. How can one to make him stay longer? And how to lead him to the door of the store where Mother works? Stefek designs a meticulous plan and tries to carry it out...

Cast Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak, Rafał Guźniczak, Tomasz Sapryk, Iwona Fornalczyk
Written & Directed by ANDRZEJ JAKIMOWSKI
Producer ANDRZEJ JAKIMOWSKI

Technical Info:
Certificate: 12
Runtime: 96 mins
Polish language with English subtitles