Splat! FilmFest: Opi

TypeHall 1 - Cinema

Hour

24.10

|

8.30 pm |

The horror that Polish cinema has been waiting for decades.

Krystyna wants to be called “Trina”. He is almost 18 years old and dreams of breaking out of his family home in Kashubia. It is the 90s, the girl wants freedom, and in the family house all that awaits her is the excuses of her mother, a muted seamstress who smiles only at the TV. And especially when John Paul II is on the screen. Her mother's religious obsession becomes hard to bear, and Christina, along with her friend, plans to escape. Her plan collapses when her mother's younger sister Krystyna comes to visit with her paralyzed grandmother. The tension between the four women grows, resentments silenced for years turn into shouting. And Krystyna will learn something so terrifying about herself that it will shake her whole existence.

Polish language with English subtitles

ÓPI, dir. Marta Giec, Poland, 2026, 96'

--For whom: youth, adults

Venue: Sala 1 - Kinowa

tickets: 25 zł (n), 23 zł (u), 20 zł (with Kinomana Card)

-- [Movie poster. On a black background, lace, round photo frame. In the middle, the face of a young frightened girl painted half red.]

“ÒPI” is a horror film that Polish cinema has been waiting for decades. Firmly embedded in Kashubian beliefs, it makes folk gushlas a source of authentic horror. Almost the same as that evoked by the furniture walls and furniture of the 90s, with which “ÒPI” breathes from the first to the last scene. This world, on the one hand, seems familiar, on the other, it inspires fear. The film builds its atmosphere gradually revealing the next pieces of the terrible puzzle. Folk rituals, local legends, so well-known, and yet alien and frightening in this edition, make “ÒPI” a stylish but unstylized film, strangely close to the heart and original. Here, the grievances conveyed in a suppressed voice are as terrifying as bloody fingers and decapitation, and the finale will call viewers with weaker nerves from their feet. And it will be worth it.