Mall Girls
plus director Q&A
UK PREMIERE
Filmmaker: Katarzyna Roslaniec
Poland / 2009 / 82 min / Polish (with English subtitles)
NFT1, Tue March 9, 8.45pm
14 year-old Alicja finds herself on the fringes of a trendy, sexualised group of teens who pass for 18 and have attitude and gear to flaunt. Rude and crude they make her life hell before slowly inviting her to join their world, hanging round shopping malls hitting on guys who pay them for sexual favours with cash or fashion accessories. A huge box office hit in Poland, Mall Girls considers the fate of a generation exposed to too much too soon.
Katarzyna Roslaniec
Katarzyna Roslaniec was born in 1980, she studied economics and law at Gdańsk University before pursuing studies in filmmaking at the Warsaw Film School and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. In 2006, she directed Mall Girls as a short film, which earned her the Special Award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Mall Girls (2009) is her first feature film.
Screening in partnership with Kinoteka
