The aggressive, raucous majority excludes those who use the “Bird talk”: the history teacher tormented by his students, a recently-fired language teacher, a leprous composer, a woman who cleans the house of a banker, a deformed florist and a student fascinated by the cinema.

This urgent and exhilarating political parable was penned by the director’s late father, filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. An unhinged and reverential tribute to one of cinema’s greatest legends, the film offers a sharp and trenchant look at Poland today.