Direction & screenplay: Bogna Kowalczyk
DoP: Miłosz Kasiura
Editors: Aleksandra Gowin/ Talent Bank , Kacper Plawgo, Krzysztof Komander, Konrad Śniady
Film received 4 awards and 2 nominations:
2022 Toronto (Hot Docs) – Emerging International Filmmaker Award – Bogna Kowalczyk
2022 Krakow (Krakow Film Festival – Polish Competition) – Silver Lajkonik for Best Documentary Film over 30 minutes
2022 Krakow (Krakow Film Festival) – Audience Award
2022 Koszalin (Koszalin Film Debut Festival „Young and Film”) – Special Mention in the Full-Length Documentary Debut Competition
for „the opportunity to meet a person who consistently lived in harmony with themselves, driven by the need for freedom. For showing internal beauty and the power of imagination.”
2022 Opole (Opolskie Lambs Film Festival) – Special Mention in the Full-Length Documentary Film Competition
2022 Bergen (Bergen International Film Festival) – Award for Best LGBT+ Film
Already flirting with death, but still in search of the love of his life – queer performer Lulla La Polaca has crossed the age of eighty and still wants to dance, have fun, and love. However, his aging body resists the youthful spirit. How is it to desire something one can no longer keep up with? To long for love, with so little time to fulfill it? A stranger among the tribe of retirees and flourishing amidst the young, who always leave him behind; Lulla belongs nowhere. Suspended between the memory of the past and hope for a new relationship; he seeks solace from loneliness in a world of fantasy. The film’s protagonist doesn’t fit into any roles or generational divides: he frequents funeral parlors and pride parades; dances at clubs and in gay clubs. The oldest Polish drag queen gracefully navigates a world that worships youth, and „Boylesque” captures the tender points of his biography.