Miraculous Accident

"Miraculous Accident" is a transtemporal film that narrates the love story between Nadir, a Moroccan student at the Łódź Film School in 1968, his Jewish editing teacher Edyta, and their shared relationship with Jarek, Nadir’s best friend and Edyta’s protégé. Nadir is among a group of North African students sent to study communist filmmaking techniques as part of the Eastern Bloc’s support for anti-imperialist struggles. Despite her opposition to Zionism, Edyta is forced to leave Poland due to the political rift between Poland and Israel following the Six-Day War. In 2024, Nadir returns to the school to make a film after discovering a forgotten letter Edyta wrote to him from Haifa in 1989. The film mourns the cruelty of nations, birthing rare miracles – accidental loves – only to crush them before they breathe.

Partially inspired by the life of former Moroccan student, poet, and filmmaker Abdelkader Lagtaâ – who also plays Nadir in the film – "Miraculous Accident" weaves its plot through original footage and extracts from 1960s student films by Lagtaâ and his peers.

Source: 75. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)