The Way It Is
Director: Pawel Lozinski
Running Time: 58minutes
Poland 1999

Post Screening Discussion with Director

The scene is an old tenement house in Warsaw where Pawel Lozinski lives. Wiesio, a former caretaker, is one of his neighbours.

He lives in a makeshift place in the doorway next to the rubbish. He has a dog, Froggie, a girlfriend Ania and an old friend Mr Szymanski who is a retired hairdresser.

The film shows one year in Wiesio’s life.

Pawel Lozinski, son of the celebrated Polish filmmaker Marcel Lozinski, is a graduate of the National Film School in Poland. His films have won numerous awards, including The Grand Prix, Cracow for both ‘The Sisters’ and ‘The Way It Is’ in 1999. One of his earliest films ‘Voyage’ won the best young filmmaker of the year, Edynburg 1991

Filmography: Pani z Ukraini (2002); The Sisters (1999); the Way It Is (1999) Gutter (1996); A Hundred Years in the Cinema (1995) (The Polish part of the series made for the British Film Institute to mark a 100 years of cinema); Birthplace (1992) and Voyage (1990).

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