But I Never Asked

A young pianist at the Munich Conservatory prepares for the most important audition of her life, performing Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 — the same music broadcast by Polish radio as bombs fell on Warsaw in 1939. While perfecting her technique, Sophia becomes haunted by fragments of her family’s untold wartime past. Memories she never lived begin to surface, blurring the boundaries between history and identity, dream and reality. To truly play, she must face the traces of war passed down to her.

Nicole Humiński is a German-Polish director currently studying Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Her films have been screened and awarded at international festivals. She is actively involved in projects of remembrance culture, collaborating among others with the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.