What an excellent outcome for outstanding storytelling, with 12 Years a Slave and La Grande Bellezza bringing home the gold. It gives us all hope for the stories we have brewing for the big screen, and curiosity for those that charm us in the everyday. This Polish superintendent is weeks away from retirement, and after the boiler not working for the past freezing week – much to the vocal discomfort of the tenants – is off to join his long lost cousins on the beach in Australia…