House of Ants

documentary, 2026
52 min. (TV version) and 71 min. (festival version)

• photography: Katarzyna Kultys, Agnieszka Kokowska
• sound: Katarzyna Kultys, Anna Stadniczeńko
• editing: Michał Poddębniak
• music: Marzena Majcher
• producer: Adam Ślesicki
• produced by: FILM FRAME – Fundacja Filmowa im. Władysława Ślesickiego
• co-producers: Canal+, Kult Film, Orka Film Studio, Cafe Ole Sound Studio, MX35
• co-financed by the Polish Film Institute

A full of humor portrait of a relationship between a single mother Kasia who comes from the aesthetic fashion world and her 14-year-old son Oskar who develops his strange collection of insects. He brings home species after species – ants, cockroaches, spiders, scorpions, and others, repeatedly overstepping mother's boundaries. A difficult mother-and-son relationship evolves, tension rises leading to inevitable threat and ultimate confrontation. But they both have to learn how to grow up and respect each other’s personal spheres. “House of Ants” is a coming-of-age story about passion, love, motherhood and respecting the differences between people and boundaries in a shared space.

Katarzyna Kultys
director

Katarzyna is a documentary filmmaker and graduate of the Wajda School’s Dok Pro and Doc Development in the Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation. She studied cultural studies at SWPS, Gestalt psychotherapy and Marketing Management at GWSH. She was a founder of Fashion Magazine, the first professional fashion magazine in Poland and has done over 100 photo shoots with the biggest names in fashion and art. For her short documentary ‘Wiesia’, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. ‘House of Ants’ is her first feature documentary.

Adam Ślesicki
producer

Founder and president of the Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation; head of Doc Lab Poland – the biggest in Poland training and pitching program for documentary filmmakers. As producer and executive producer in the Wajda Studio he has had over 20 documentary films presented and awarded across the world, incl. the Oscar Nomination, Nomination for European Academy Award, Grand Prix at New Horizons Festival, Best Documentary at Palm Springs FF and Best Documentary at Los Angeles Film Awards.

Production company:
FILM FRAME
Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation

FILM FRAME is a unit of the Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation created to develop and produce ambitious, cinematic, auteur-driven films. We make strong, visual and emotional films with international potential, with a special focus on documentary films and we aim to discover and support new talents. In FILM FRAME’s curriculum there is ‘Fury’ by Krzysztof Kasior (2022) and „The Lost Voice. Searching for Marcella Sembrich” by Radka Franczak (in postproduction) as well as numerous documentary shorts. It also co-produced „Vika!” by Agnieszka Zwiefka and „When Harmatan Blows” by Edyta Wróblewska.

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