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Seattle Polish Film Festival: The Altar Boys

Poland | 2025 | 110 min. | Piotr Domalewski

October 23, 2026

The Seattle Polish Film Festival presents the film The Altar Boys. The story follows a group of altar boys who, disillusioned by the Church's indifference, decide to take matters into their own hands. They plant a bug in the confessional to learn their neighbors' secrets and dispense justice by their own rules. Their mission quickly spirals out of control. 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Piotr Domalewski and actress Kamila Urzędowska.



SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.

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Friday, October 23, 2026

SIFF Cinema Uptown

6:00 PM

A group of teenage altar boys, frustrated by the indifferent attitude of adults and the Church as an institution toward social injustice, decide to carry out their own unconventional plan for moral renewal. Armed with youthful rebellion and their own interpretation of Scripture, they plant a bug... in the confessional, to get to know their neighbors better. Masked like Zorro and with ambitions on the scale of Robin Hood, they become judges in their own neighborhood, helping those in need and dispensing punishment for sins. But their mission turns into a dangerous game, and as the boys apply their own idealistic code of honor, they start walking a fine line between good and evil. The real life of the housing estate blends with a mission straight out of a superhero comic book, except instead of capes, these heroes wear surplices.

  • Director: Piotr Domalewski
  • Principal Cast: Tobiasz Wajda, Bruno Błach-Baar, Mikołaj Juszczyk, Filip Juszczyk, Daria Kalinchuk, Kamila Urzędowska
  • Country: Poland
  • Year: 2025
  • Running Time: 110 min.
  • Language: Polish with English Subtitles
  • Has Subtitles: Yes