CONVICTION explores how certainty forms from repetition rather than understanding. In a white room, people confidently repeat “white is white,” revealing how familiarity becomes truth. A prism disrupts the scene, exposing the gap between perception and reality. The film merges cognitive science with symbolic imagery, echoing Fellini and Antonioni. It is not a lecture but a provocation about how belief overrides knowledge.

Urszula Nawrot is a multifaceted artist, director, and researcher whose work combines art with science, exploring the depths of the human psyche and inner world. Her films, such as the award-winning UMBRA , and her artistic projects demonstrate a unique sensitivity and ability to visually express complex themes such as trauma, archetypes, and the process of individuation. In 2014, she founded the production company COPALFILM, producing the film Umbra , in which she combined all her passions: film, dance, visual aesthetics, and depth psychology. At the invitation of Professor Leszek Mądzik, she created promotional photos for his performance "Czas Kobiet" (Time of Women) with AM Jopek (posters, billboards, catalog). EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS In 2022, her first solo exhibition in Poland took place at the Catholic University of Lublin's Fine Arts Gallery in Lublin, at the invitation of Professor Mądzik. The exhibition, "ROMANTICISM," explored themes of female wounds and healing processes through contact with archetypes. Urszula Nawrot specializes in realistic and conceptual portraiture, as well as landscape painting. The artist has exhibited numerous works, including Romanticism: Reclaiming Oneself , Romanticism: Experiencing Death , Noble Poland , and The Devil's Women . The exhibition Romanticism won the award for best female photography at the Frida Film Festival. FILM "UMBRA" In her debut film, Umbra (2015), she told the story of the trauma of sexual abuse from the perspective of an adult woman's inner world. All of the images in the film are inspired by the real-life experiences of people she met while working on the project. The film has garnered praise from experts in psychology and psychiatry, such as Professors Bogdan de Barbaro and Peter A. Levine, and is also used as teaching material in trauma courses. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY Since 2016, she has actively participated in academic conferences in psychology and philosophy, such as Trauma and Nightmare and Archetype in Focus , presenting her own theses on the structure of the inner world. She is currently working on a doctorate in the phenomenology of trauma.