Sophia Turkiewicz
2021Once My Mother
Sophia Turkiewicz
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
Once My Mother
Silver City
Sophia Turkiewicz
Gosia Dobrowolska, Ivar Kants
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.
Silver City
Letters from Poland
Sophia Turkiewicz
In Sydney in 1950 a young Polish woman waits for the arrival of Tadek, her prospective husband. She and her baby have come to Australia from a German refugee camp. Working as a night cleaner in a city office, she strikes up a casual friendship with the nightwatchman and waits for Tadek.
Letters from Poland
