SUPPLEMENT (SUPLEMENT) European Showcase

Krzysztof Zanussi’s previous film, LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival and was Poland’s entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. Half sequel and half companion piece to that film, SUPPLEMENT focuses on frustrated medical student Filip and his pragmatic girlfriend, Hanka.

Torn between a career as a doctor and the monastic life of a priest, Filip agonizingly wonders if he has truly received his calling or if he’s meant for the secular world. Standing by while Filip struggles to find the answer within himself, Hanko has her own inner struggle-can she bear to go through the motions of day-to-day life as he keeps her at a distance, or does her love indeed have limits.

SUPPLEMENT paints a vivid portrait of the limits of faith, the merits of steadfast love and one man’s struggle to decide between flesh, spirit or something in between.