What the Sun Has Seen

^director Michał Rosa
^screenplay Michał Rosa
^{director of photography} Andrzej Szulkowski, Bartłomiej Kaczmarek
^music Mateusz Pospieszalski
^with Damian Hryniewicz, Dominika Kluźniak, Krzysztof Stroiński, Tomasz Sapryk, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Kinga Preis
^awards
 Jury Special Prize and Best Sound (Piotr Domaradzki), Award of the Association of Foreign Organizers of Polish Film Festivals at the 31st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2006
 Audience Prize at the New York Polish Film Festival, 2007
 award of the Polish-German Foundation for best Polish film at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 2007
 award for cinematography at the National Film Art Festival ‘Provincionality’ in Września, 2007

MICHAŁ ROSA, FILM SHOULD GIVE HOPE; TALK WITH BASIA TULEJA [FILM MA DAWAĆ NADZIEJĘ; ROZ MO WA Z BA SIĄ TU LE JĄ], ‘MACHINA’, 2007, NO. 10

As a rule, I tell stories about a world which is not simple and easy. However, contrary to appearances, ‘What the Sun Has Seen’ is not about squalid and urine-smelling Silesia (…). It’s a film about people who have dreams and cherish hopes. None of my protagonists, despite the many falls they suffer, falls to the end. These people get up, keeping their sense of detachment.

PAWEŁ T. FELIS, WHAT THE SUN HAS SEEN [CO SŁONKO WIDZIAŁO], ‘GAZETA WYBORCZA’, 12 I 2007

One of the most interesting Polish films of recent time. This superbly-told film from Rosa may be perceived as a tale of lost religiousness (or more broadly –spirituality), but also as a story of at first imperceptible cracks and empty spaces within a family (…). At the end, the director-moralist meddles in this world but quickly withdraws from the position of a demiurge. He intentionally refuses to answer the question whether the tragedy will constitute a turning point for the protagonists.