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Stimulants & Empathogens

SHORTS 1

20:00pm, 6 June 2026

Cinema House

fiction    25’    Poland    2024

Antek, a closeted teenage gay from a wealthy family, invites the drug dealer Kuba, he has a hopeless crush on, to his villa under the pretext of another drug transaction. However, he does not know that Kuba has a mission that he received from his superiors – his father and his brother. The dealer's family suspects that Antek resells their mephedrone at a profit at his school, so Kuba is supposed to investigate the situation.

Cast & Crew

Director & Writer: Mateusz Pacewicz

Starring: Michał Murawski, Gracjan Kosyl, Anita Sokolowska

Producers: Filip Marczewski, Katarzyna Madaj

Cinematographer: Mikołaj Syguda

Music: Aleksander Musialowski, Tymoteusz Witczak

Festivals & Awards

Krakow FF

Warsaw IFF

River FF

Mateusz Pacewicz

Mateusz is an award-winning filmmaker. He debuted in 2019 as the writer of Corpus Christi,dir. Jan Komasa, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film and the European Film Awards in five categories, script included. The second film Pacewicz wrote, The Hater, won the Best International Feature at the Tribeca FF 2020. Mateusz also co-wrote and co-directed Hear, a short which premiered at Sundance 2017.

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