Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

In the midst of revolution and civil war, a filmmaker sets out to find herself. From the barricades of Maidan Square, to the safety of a Parisian apartment, Alisa struggles with her love for boyfriend Stephane, her impartiality as a journalist and her duties as a proud Ukrainian. Treading the line between director and subject, will Alisa leave this conflict with her love and her life, intact?

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.

Piotr Majdrowicz’s film The Misunderstanding of 1978 presents the story of a young photographer in love with an athlete who he photographs.

The programme consists of sketches rejected from other programmes.

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

A man experiences a scary night in the old forest. The trees resemble monsters that have been frozen in time, the clock faces melt as in a surreal painting and the revolving door grinds them into pieces as in an expressionist film.

Nikol and Oliwka have a freedom the rest of teenagers can only dream of. Far from parental supervision and prohibitions, they leave according to their own rules. However, the world of adults is not so simple, as the sisters soon discover. Adolescence can beat everyone. The girls have to take responsibility over their deeds on their own.

A study of loneliness and passing away.

The key aim of every ZOO is to protect animal species from extinction. In times of war, the most endangered species was the man. Under the Nazis' noses, about 300 people, mainly Jews, found shelter at the Warsaw Zoo during the Second World War. With the help of reenacted scenes with animals, interviews with the survivors, and archive footage, we are going to revive the surreal atmosphere of those events.

A forgotten glove in an empty venue in Warsaw which is about to close after an event... Magda returns to get her glove and has the opportunity to have a brief talk with her first love Piotr, whose concert she has just enjoyed, about the long time that has passed. Could the old flame between them still be burning there?

A trip through an animated world.

This documentary tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Shows their daily struggles and lets them share their stories.

The moment when a gesture of care turns into silent aggression. Sisterly love that is secretly ruled by subtle violence. A necessary connection that pulls you down.

A computer animation in which the camera circles around an architectural structure, only to penetrate its center a moment later. The interior turns out to be an orderly tangle of a huge number of connections. Somewhere here, new energy is born. Electronic, pulsating music sets inanimate matter in motion, and it begins to live a life of its own. The camera closely follows its movements, taking the viewer on a hypnotic journey full of surprises.

From a series of animated films set to classical music. Classical animation created using painting techniques on paper and celluloid. A montage of four parts from 1991–1995.

"We don't like the party, the former party anymore; one would like to walk with one's head held high, though" - bade farewell to the Polish United Workers' Party its last head, Mieczyslaw Franciszek Rakowski. In the winter of 1990, the organization's banner was solemnly brought out during a meeting in the Congress Hall. The PZPR was dissolved, and a whole new chapter in the history of postwar Poland began.

Modern work tools are created thanks to the development of science, as a result of the transfer of knowledge between generations. A review of the tradition of Polish science from the times of Nicolaus Copernicus to the establishment of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [35mm online]

The titular guesthouse no longer exists today. The building has remained, but for almost half a century it has had a different owner and its purpose is different. Before the war, tourists from various regions of Germany came here, in 1945 the vicinity of the guesthouse became the "Regained Territories", to which repatriates from the east began arriving. One of them was an inhabitant of Lviv who spent several years in a Soviet labor camp. After the war, he moved to a former German guesthouse. The action of the film takes place today. The son of the former owners, who was 12 years old at the outbreak of the war, comes to the town where the guesthouse was located. There is an unusual meeting of two aging men who, against their will, have been torn from their places of grew up and spend their entire lives away from their homeland.

Teenage Berenika is a pretty girl, but devoid of natural charm and freedom in dealing with the opposite sex. He is staying with his bright and self-confident cousin, Meg. She wants to meet the demands of her socially attractive environment at all costs. By following Meg's directions, she learns amazingly quickly to win favor with men. The most handsome of them, Warren, who adored Meg so far, is also charmed by her. A jealous girl tries to discredit her rival - she provokes her, offering to bet that Berenika will not dare to cut her hair ... The psychological and moral story evokes the realities of the 1920s - beautiful clothes, old cars and a romantic atmosphere.

There is an old stone house in a clearing, it is surrounded by greenery. Architects have ambitious plans for this area. They will build a modern city around the clearing, however, the old house cannot be blown up. The problem will be solved by an open-air museum.

Marysia, a postal clerk, travels to Vienna to work as Mr. Olszewicz's secretary as a result of a distorted telegram. Their first joint venture is to sign a contract with American industrialist Smith, pretending to be a young married couple. He takes them to his yacht in Dubrovnik, where he refuses to sign the contract, having guessed the deception and feeling cheated.

A documentary about the rock festival in Jarocin, seen through the eyes of its participants, city authorities and representatives of social organizations.

A painter frustrated with his life set out to find new inspiration for his art.

Lucia is an 11-year-old girl, awake and curious about life. A rebel mortified by the bourgeois family environment of Southern Italy where she lives. The father is violent and the mother remains powerless in the face of her husband's anger. After yet another violence, Lucia gives a cry of alarm: on the day of her First Communion, she wears the white dress not to go to church, but on a rock. And throw yourself into the sea.

A socio-political drama depicting the relationship between the individual and society, but also the power of collective action in the fight against selfish, consumerist attitudes, manifestations of falsely understood professional prestige, and a petty bourgeois lifestyle.

The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).

A film portrait of Henryk Tomaszewski, one of the greatest poster artists, an outstanding graphic designer, illustrator and educator, co-founder of the school of Polish poster art. He was born in 1914 in Warsaw and died in 2005. Before the war he graduated from the School of Graphic Industry and studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He was involved in poster art since 1936. He collaborated with the satirical weekly "Szpilki", printed drawings in the Lublin satirical weekly "Stańczyk", and designed scenery for the Warsaw theater "Syrena". In the early 1950s he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He educated dozens of graphic artists and poster designers who are famous today. In the film, the protagonist talks about the beginnings of poster art in Poland, his pedagogical work and artistic career. Archival materials were used during the production, and the artist's statements are illustrated with his posters and drawings.

A young girl goes to a psychologist to tell him a story of her weird phobia of cats and dogs. A strange tale about bloody quadruped, cats that appear as tigers and dachshunds who are professional karate fighters seems a little unbelievable to the doctor. (from Vimeo page)

Can a sudden influx of large cash cause problems? Yes, if it is accidentally lost by a ruthless man, and falls into the hands of irresponsible madmen. Their owner will not hesitate to pull the trigger to regain his property and punish those who have tarnished his honor.

Slawek leads a carefree life of Satan as the president of Hell 2.0. One day Jesus comes to him, who is worried about his missing father. Moved Slawek does everything he can to find his old friend.

A breathtaking, bold and painterly film streaming images, thoughts and memories of random experiences.

Alexandra can't accept that her girlfriend left her. The confrontation with her ex-girlfriend and a special table and an encounter with a policeman help her understand that loss always will be a part of life.

A maturing teenage girl goes on vacation with her parents. Hanging out with imaginary monsters she's actually longing for a closer relationship with her parents. Not being able to show her feelings she decides to erase her parents from her life.

Last three days of preparations for a fight Pawel 'Popek' Mikolajuw is not prepared for.

Shortly before retiring, an old railway worker causes a serious accident which ultimately destroys his whole professional career.

A perverse and funny story of two young men who wake up one day in a cluttered car in the middle of the forest. Neither of them knows under what circumstances they ended up here. Neither of them has any idea how to get out of there. Meanwhile, mysterious pieces of paper begin to fall from the sky, allowing them to make one wish.

Reportage about pre-war Warsaw, divided into five parts, describing the architecture and inhabitants.

A documentary biographical film by Stanislaw Różewicz, made in the form of a self-interview. The director shares his memories and reflections on his fifty years of work in film. His achievements include twenty feature films - including theatrical and television films, medium-length films, directing in theaters, in the Television Theater. "A Place on Earth," "The Door in the Wall," "Westerplatte," "Birth Certificate," "Solitude for Two," "Fallen Leaves from the Trees," "The Lynx," "Mrs. Latter's Pension" are just some of the titles of his films. "Living Images" is also a story about working with a film crew: screenwriters - including his brother Tadeusz, cinematographers - Jerzy Wojcik, about methods of working with actors, about perplexities with censorship, about the activities of the TOR film team, of which he was the founder and artistic director. Stanislaw Różewicz's reflections are supplemented by excerpts from his films and photographs documenting his work on them.

This museum does not collect the achievements of mankind. On the contrary, we can find there the evidence of its fall. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and its exhibits.

In 1942, the front line passed in the Vitebsk and Novgorod forests, thousands of Soviet soldiers died here. Today, on the Belarusian-Russian border, enthusiasts are looking for human remains that have not yet been buried according to the laws of peacetime, not wartime. According to human laws.

A documentary film featuring the profiles of six young people living in Poland. They are united by their age. The protagonists of the film are a young farmer, an unemployed graduate of Foreign Trade, a feminist, a young politician active in the Green Party 2004. We also meet a writer writing anti-consumerist novels, a graphic designer working as a producer of photo shoots (known for her popular blog on the web). The authors of the film for several months accompanied them at work, moments of entertainment, meetings with friends, we see their joys and sorrows.

At the turn of 1980/81, the peasants joined the workers' movement and they voiced their demands. As a result, they’ve registered the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers ‘Solidarity’.

Two monarchs from opposing kingdoms try to obtain the princess's favors. She, from her window, watches how their rivalry escalates until it reaches a confrontation. The disagreement between them is taken advantage of by the young page to gain the sympathy of the princess.

Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Nastya and Ira are staying at a temporary accommodation center for refugees in the seaside town Gdynia, north of Poland. The haven in Gdynia for them becomes a refuge and a time for reflection. It prompts them to ponder whether people are the smiths of their fate or whether are they subject to unpredictable events over which they have no control.