Extremely funny and deadly serious, this brilliant black comedy centres on a young construction worker in small-town Poland, who suffers a terrible work accident resulting in a face transplant. A wonderful, deadpan farce tackling the current state of Poland, Mug (Twarz in Polish) it's the latest film from one of the country’s most talented filmmakers - writer and director Małgorzata Szumowska.

The charismatic Mateusz Kościukiewicz stars as Jacek, a free spirited bad boy who works helping to build a massive statue of Christ and gets engaged to the equally carefree Dagmara (Małgorzata Gorol). After an accident, Jacek’s face has to be rebuilt and he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant - but the surgery transforms him into an incomprehensible, unrecognisable Frankenstein’s monster. Becoming a stranger in his home village as promises are broken, friendships are withdrawn, his family grows wary of him and he discovers the modest limits of local charity.

A lacerating attack on prejudice and bigotry, Mug offers a caustic report on the state of modern Poland and shows some bitter truths about what lies behind the surface of a carefully manufactured image.

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