Tell Me What You Feel
(Powiedz mi, co czujesz)
Łukasz Ronduda
Patryk struggles to find success with his art. His amateur-like drawings are too confrontational - they capture his traumatic childhood and his parents' issues. To make ends meet, he works in a cinema and sells mass-produced paintings of Softboy Jesus, but painting is an ungrateful muse.
In a gallery, he meets Maria, who buys people's tears for an art project, and sparks fly between them. A relationship begins as only Gen Z can have it: informed by self-psychologising, commitment issues and careful vulnerability. Amidst a Warsaw summer, they try to bloom and confront their familial traumas - convinced that art is the best kind of therapy.
Firmly rooted in the contemporary art scene in Poland as a scientist and curator, Łukasz Ronduda offers a compassionate but not uncritical look at the creative process of a young artist, for whom art becomes a mouthpiece. Framed by a playful love story, art reveals itself as a common language and an emotional outlet.
29 April 2026
20:30 h, Elysee 2 im Festivalzentrum
More information
| Direction | Łukasz Ronduda |
| Country | Poland |
| Production year | 2026 |
| Duration | 100 min |
| Language | Polish |
| Language Version | OV with English Subs |
| Genre | Drama |
| Production | Natalia Grzegorzek |
| Production company | Koskino |
| Distribution | Koskino |
| Cast | Jan Sałasiński, Izabella Dudziak |
| Director of Photography | Weronika Bilska |
| Script | Agata K. Koschmieder, Łukasz Ronduda |
| Montage | Agata Cierniak |
| Sound | Marcin Lenarczyk |
| Music | Marcin Lenarczyk |
| Sound Design | Marcin Lenarczyk |
Film Festival ROTTERDAM 2026
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About the director
Łukasz Ronduda is a Polish art historian, critic and director, who studied at the Universitiy Łódź. He established the archive for experimental film at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Castle Ujazdowski and worked as a curator for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. His first feature film, Perfomer, was shown in Rotterdam as well as at the Berlinale 2015 in the section "Panorama Expanded", where it won the Think:Film Award. His subsequent feature All Our Fears won many awards at the Polish Film Festival in 2021, including the Golden Lions trophy for the best film and the critics' award. His latest work, Tell Me What You Feel, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of the Big Screen Competition.
Press reviews
"Having been overexploited lately, the concept of therapy through art has turned into a cliché, no matter if it appears as a narrative motif in an artwork or if the artwork itself serves a therapeutic function. Łukasz Ronduda’s third fiction feature [...] covers both bases, but instead of nurturing the cliché, it questions it. [...] Eventually, we are left with an emotionally saturated yet finely wrought romantic drama, where catharsis and meaning go hand in hand." (Mariana Hristova for cineuropa)
International Feature Film Program
