Permit (Poland, 2025, 81′)

Italian subtitles

Thursday 1 October, 9 p.m., Cinema Teatro Monterosa, via Brandizzo, 65

Job Film Days 2026 pre-opening event, in collaboration with Cinema Teatro Monterosa.

On Thursday 1 October at 9 p.m., Job Film Days, in collaboration with Cinema Teatro Monterosa, presents Permit, the feature debut of Polish director Robert Kwilman. The film tells a story of exploitation and the denial of rights that gives rise to solidarity among the exploited and an act of rebellion. The screening will be preceded by welcome remarks from representatives of Districts 1 and 6 of the City of Turin.

With Giulia Venco (project manager for the reception of unaccompanied foreign minors, Salesian network in Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta) and Monira Najibzada (project coordinator for youth centres, Associazione Giovanile Salesiana).

Admission: tickets required.

Italian premiere

International title: Permit
Original title: Capo
Director: Robert Kwilman
Screenplay: Malwina Górecka, Kirk Kjeldsen, Robert Kwilman
Photography: Kasper Lorek
Edit: Chiang Ming-wei
Sound: Aleksandra Landsmann, Daniel Adamczyk, Mikołaj Tyrakowski
Cast: Daniel Vasquez, Beatriz Blanco, Aleksandra Herrera, Josiana Costales, Ivan Sharan
Production: Nonoto Film Cooperative

Adrián is a young Colombian who lives and works in Lipowice. He is tasked with bringing South American workers to Poland, as part of a forced labor scam. He meets the arrival of men and women who find themselves facing a reality far different from what they were promised. Their passports are confiscated, they must sleep in a hostel with other colleagues in the same conditions, they must pay for everything, they haven’t any rights whatsoever and they’re subjected to grueling shifts in a slaughterhouse. Even Adrián, who’s their chief and acts as go-between with the boss that devises shady deals with people, is an immigrant still waiting for his residency card. Adrián is an executioner and a victim. Over time, solidarity develops between him and the other immigrants that brings to an action of rebellion. 

The movie, the debut film by Polish director Robert Kwilman, is in its Italian premiere at the festival. 

Robert Kwilman. Director, screenwriter and editor born in Poland in 1990, he graduated in film studies at all’Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, in philosophy at University of Warsaw and in direction at the famous Polish institute Łódź Film School. He started his career as a screenwriter before passing behind the camera in 2020 with the short film Uderzenie. His following movie Alcibiades has been awarded at the Gdynia Festival in Poland. With Permit, he signed his long feature film debut.

Filmography: Uderzenie (sf, 2020), Alcibiades (sf, 2022), Forgotten Things (sf, 2024), Permit (2025).