Letters from Wolf Street

Ulica Wilcza is Indian filmmaker Arjun Talwar’s home street in the centre of Warsaw. According to local postman Piotr, it has everything one could possibly need: a police station, a funeral home, a clock tower, a dance school, two churches and vegetable kiosks, four Asian restaurants, and at least nine barbour shops. For Talwar however, who immigrated from New Delhi to Poland a decade ago, his new homeland still remains a mystery. Despite sincere efforts to adapt, he still feels like an outsider – and the loss of his best friend has only made assimilation harder.

Talwar gently turns his camera on the residents of his home street – whom he meets with disarming sincerity and an open curiosity. A bustling depiction of contemporary Poland emerges, one in which a rising far-right movement coexists, and sometimes collides, with the multicultural reality of contemporary Europe.

Tinged with dry humour and infectious optimism, Letters from Wolf Street (2025) is a loving ode to today’s Poland – and to anyone still searching for a sense of belonging between past and present.

Emma Vuorinen