A young pianist at the Munich Conservatory preparing for the most important audition of her life, playing Chopin's Ballade No. 1 — the same music broadcast by Polish radio as bombs fell on Warsaw in 1939. While perfecting her technique, Sophia becomes haunted by fragments of her family's untold wartime past. Memories she never lived begin to surface, blurring the boundaries between history and identity, dream and reality. To truly play, she must face the traces of war passed down to her.
Nicole Humiński is a German-Polish director studying directing at the HFF University of Television and Film Munich. Her short films have been screened and awarded at international film festivals. In 2025, she received the German Cinematography Award for Editing (Cinegrell New Talents).
Filmography
2021 Drecks Kleingeld
2022 Borders
2025 But I Never Asked
2025 ADHD in Young Women
2026 The True Type