With the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland
One dark night, at water’s edge, a family of musicians encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden.
After assuring the family that they won’t eat them up, the winsome mermaids are recruited to join the
Figs and Dates band at a neon-lit Warsaw dance club. When Silver becomes romantically entangled with
beautiful blonde bassist Mietek, the more cunning Golden, who cannot escape her bloodthirsty nature and
assimilate, worries that her sister’s relationship will doom their shared dream of swimming to a new
life in America.
This weird, wild, 1980s-set musical horror film wittily plays with the lust and repulsion the bewitching
sisters create with their combination of Barbie doll smooth bodies and impressively long glittering mer
maid tails. With a knack for both burlesque and the grotesque, first-time feature director Agnieszka
Smoczynska creates a world saturated in color and Europop slickness that twists with absurdity and
drips with blood.
Sundance Film Festival
Followed by a Q+A with Agnieszka SmoczyskaOne