Baby Bump

Streaming video - 2015

In this magical realist coming of age story, eleven-year-old Mickey House is frustrated with his changing body - most notably, the over-sized ears sprouting out of his head. A loner at school with an overbearing mother who still treats him like a child, Mickey finds his only solace in selling urine to his classmates for drug tests.. Like a Walt Disney film directed by David Lynch, this outrageous and hilarious Polish import wowed audiences at the Venice Biennale, where it received a Queer Lion prize. As Mickey's imagination and toxic reality begin to blur, he must face the ultimate fact: growing up is not for kids.. Winner of the Queer Lion Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the Artistic Vision Prize at OutFest Los Ang...eles. "Having not only directed but also written the screenplay, Czekaj is not afraid to take risks and experiment with close-ups and animated sequences in this film. He even re-introduces the now-rare split screen, and by doing this, it seems that even the filmic body is under an immense pressure to mature. It is all about pushing boundaries – corporeal as well as genre ones." - Sabine Kues, CineEuropa more