Zacma

Haunted by her past, a former officer in Poland’s communist government seeks an audience with the Church

Zacma: Blindness is a relentless inquiry into a woman seeking an audience with the Primate of Poland, the country's top Catholic cardinal. It turns out that the woman, Julia, was once a high-ranking and particularly ruthless Communist Party official, having supervised the interrogation and torture of political prisoners. She was very good at her job. Now, years later, times have changed, and her need to meet with the Primate is shot through with complex, conflicted feelings about her p...