Film Screening - Edinburgh - CANDIDATES OF DEATH / KANDYDACI ŚMIERCI - dir. Maciej Cuske

CANDIDATES OF DEATH / KANDYDACI ŚMIERCI Polska wersja poniżej Presented by Borscht Film in collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute 📅 Thursday 26 November 2026, 6:30 PM 📍 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Scottish Premiere / UK Premiere What begins as a playful summer project between a father and three boys gradually becomes a remarkable seventeen-year story about friendship, imagination, filmmaking and growing up. During a family holiday, acclaimed Polish filmmaker Maciej Cuske invites his son and two friends to make an amateur horror film. What starts as a simple game turns into an annual tradition, with the boys returning year after year to continue their homemade saga, Candidates of Death. As childhood gives way to adulthood, the film quietly captures how dreams evolve, friendships change, and time leaves its mark on us all. Blending documentary, coming-of-age cinema and a film-within-a-film structure, Candidates of Death is a moving, funny and deeply persona