How to Survive the Summer Holidays (2026): Cast, Story and

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Set at a Kashubian campsite beside a lake and forest, How to Survive the Summer Holidays follows holidaymakers whose fragile relationships unravel as romances, resentments and unsettling incidents disturb the seasonal escape.

How to Survive the Summer Holidays takes place at a Kashubian campsite where families, couples and solo travelers arrive looking for time away. Instead, the shared holiday setting brings unfamiliar people into close contact, allowing attractions and tensions to develop side by side.

Directed by Michał Grzybowski, the Polish drama-comedy combines adult conflict with a separate world shaped by the campsite’s children. Their stories draw on Kashubian legends and scary tales, adding an element of unease to an otherwise familiar summer setting.

How to Survive the Summer Holidays movie details

Story without spoilers

At a lakeside campsite surrounded by forest, holidaymakers pursue different versions of a relaxing break. New relationships emerge, some people fall in love, and others grow increasingly resentful as communication between the adults breaks down.

Meanwhile, the children spend time without close adult supervision and create their own imaginative world, inspired by local Kashubian legends and frightening stories. The atmosphere changes when several visitors discover that the tyres on their cars have been punctured. The incident brings existing tensions into sharper focus and raises the pressure among the campers.

What to expect

The film is framed as a drama-comedy set within the social pressure cooker of a crowded holiday campsite. Its premise brings together romance, interpersonal friction, family dynamics and a mystery-like disruption without revealing how those elements develop.

The contrast between adults who struggle to communicate and children who build an imaginative world of their own gives the story two connected perspectives. The lake, forest and Kashubian folklore establish a distinct regional setting, while the punctured tyres introduce a more uneasy turn to the holiday atmosphere.

Cast and creative team

The cast includes Agnieszka Dulęba-Kasza, Remigiusz Jankowski, Rita Jankowska, Roch Jankowski, Maciej Filus, Agata Myśliwiec, Dobrawa Grząślewicz, Jacek Stefanik, Martyna Szymańska and Marianna Filus. Michał Grzybowski directs and co-writes the film with Tomasz Walesiak.

• Agnieszka Dulęba-Kasza
• Remigiusz Jankowski
• Rita Jankowska
• Roch Jankowski
• Maciej Filus
• Agata Myśliwiec
• Dobrawa Grząślewicz
• Jacek Stefanik
• Martyna Szymańska
• Marianna Filus

Release and production context

How to Survive the Summer Holidays, originally titled Swornegacie, is a 2026 Polish production in the Polish language. It has a runtime of 1 hour and 20 minutes and is produced by Haja Films and FIXAFILM. The supplied release date is October 10, 2026.

Production companies: Haja Films, FIXAFILM

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With its contained campsite setting and intertwined adult and child perspectives, How to Survive the Summer Holidays presents a holiday story shaped by romance, resentment, folklore and a disruptive incident. The premise places ordinary vacation tensions alongside a growing sense of unease.

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