The Silent Twins (2022)
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska Run Time: 113 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022
Starring: Jack Bandeira, Jordan J Gallagher, Julian R. Booth, Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance
Country: Poland, United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Feeling isolated from an unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires.
Silence was their bond. Imagination set them free. Based on an astounding true story of twin sisters who grew up in Wales.
About the filmmaker:
Originally a student of art history and culture, Agnieszka Smoczyńska completed her education at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. For its artistic vision, her first full-length film Daughters of Dancing (2015) received a Special Jury Award in the World Cinema competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Her follow-up feature Fuga (2018) was presented in Film Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2018, together with Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik and Olga Chajdas, Smoczyńska directed 1983, the first Polish series for Netflix.
Based on the best seller by Marjorie Wallace, Smoczyńska’s feature film The Silent Twins (2022) tells the real-life story of two inseparable sisters who moved to a new country and found themselves the only black children in the community.
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