The Right

A 73-year-old security guard from the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden writes a letter to the director of the Muzeum Sztuki of Łódź, requesting to volunteer as a security guard there. The fourth in a series of short films entitled "The Anonymity of the Night," The Right is a fictional story framed by historical sentiments. The ostensible reason for the security guard's wish for a transfer – apart from her personal history as a Polish-German refugee in the 1940s – is the Łódź museum's collection of avant-garde pieces by the "a.r." group ("revolutionary artists", "real avant-garde") from the 1930s, one of the most renowned leftist Polish avant-garde groups of the interwar period, which she values much more highly than the old masters in the Caravaggisti room in Dresden, where she is currently placed. (Berlinale)