Baby Bump

Product Description

Eleven-year-old Mickey House is frustrated with his changing body - most notably, the over-sized ears sprouting out of his head. A loner at school with an overbearing mother who still treats him like a child, Mickey finds his only solace in selling urine to his classmates for drug tests. Like a Walt Disney film directed by David Lynch, this outrageous and hilarious Polish import wowed audiences at the Venice Biennale, where it received a Queer Lion prize. As Mickey's imagination and toxic reality begin to blur, he must face the ultimate fact: growing up is not for kids.

Cast & Crew

• Kacper Olszewski
• Agnieszka Podsiadlik
• Sebastian Lach
• Caryl Swift

Director: Kuba Czekaj

Producers: Magdalena Kaminska

Producers: Agata Szymanska

Review

If Walt Disney, Todd Solondz, and David Lynch were to collaborate on a film, it might resemble Kuba Czekaj's Baby Bump, a gruesome coming-of-age story that is never afraid to test the limits of cinema --Cinema Slasher

For good and ill, this is the essence of adolescence --Eye For Film

The result is a highly sensory wall of images and sounds which grip the viewer and hold one hostage. Some images intrigue, some images offend, but every image is carefully designed to express the feelings of fear, and torment, and depravity which are linked with the theme of 'growing up: not for children'. Czekaj's Baby Bump makes Harmony Korine's Gummo look as normal as a Disney movie --Next Projection