A near future, a dystopian world shaped by the policies of an authoritarian government in the Eastern bloc, where a nightmare digital dictatorship reigns, with citizen passes dictating access to public services and individual freedoms: this is the set-up of Reset, a second feature film by Patricia Ryczko (acclaimed in 2019 for I am REN [+lee también:
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Written by the director herself (who is also a novelist and a very successful one in the UK and the USA thanks to the Scandinavian psychological thriller A Child Made to Order), the story revolves around 41-year-old housewife Sonja (Kasia Borek) who is devoted to the education of her 10-year-old daughter, Mia (Julia Polasczek). Sonja has hidden her civil union with 27-year-old Adela (Karolina Micula) from everyone, out of fear. One day, her citizen pass suddenly stops working, stripping away her freedoms. Unbeknownst to her, this glitch unveils the past she’d desperately tried to hide from the State in order to avoid persecution as a terrorist…

Reset is produced by Storygeist Film, with photography entrusted to Grzegorz Korczak, editing to Morten Rud, set design to Wojtek Pawlak, costumes to Ewa Klos and music to Jimmy Svennson.