“Nobody Knows” — Kino Konesera

“Nobody Knows” was appreciated by audiences and critics around the world, thanks to which Hirokazu Koreeda received two Blue Ribbons from the Tokyo Film Critics Association for Best Director and Best Film. Yūya Yagira, for his portrayal of Akira's eldest son at the age of 14, received the best actor award at Cannes, thus setting the current record for the youngest winner of the Cannes acting award. The Fukushima family is moving into a new apartment. Keiko, the mother of a 12-year-old boy named Akira, introduces him to the tenant as her only child. However, it soon turns out that she has hidden the existence of the other children — Kyōko (11), eager to learn the piano, the energetic and noisy cliffhanger Shigeru, and the youngest, five-year-old Yuka. She hides them because she is aware that it is very difficult for a single mother with a bunch of small children to rent an apartment, due to prejudices related, for example, to the potential lack of stable employment and solvency or the fear of noise behind the thin walls of Japanese apartments and the risk of complaints from roommates. Therefore, only Akira can go outside, and none of the children attend school. The two oldest children watch with increasing anxiety as mom's returns “from work” take longer and longer. When Keiko falls in love again, she decides to leave for a longer stay with her new boyfriend, leaving the children in the care of her eldest son. And although he promises to return, he disappears for good, and Akira and his siblings will be forced to survive on their own.

After mom, only single things remain, reminding that she ever existed. The remnants of the bright nail polish she decided to decorate Kyōko's fingers, the amount of money she left behind at an alarming rate, the children's unfulfilled dream of going to school, broken promises, and random men — Yuka's potential fathers — whose lives are constantly falling apart, leaving no thought of helping strange children.

Screening: 25/11 19:00 — WEDNESDAY

“Nobody Knows” /drama, +15, 141 min. /

Tickets: PLN 18 normal, PLN 15 reduced (children from 3 years, pupils, students up to 26 years old and pensioners) available at the box office of the Wodzisławy Cultural Centre and online: https://wck.wodzislaw-slaski.pl/kup-bilet

The cinema box office will be open half an hour before the screening.

Source: Gravity Films