Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

A film joke in the tradition of turpism. Tempted by Satan, Adam and Eve prefer... raw snake meat to the apple.

A film saga about the Horst family from the small town of Zakrzewo in Western Pomerania.

Animated film set to Chopin's Waltz in B Minor.

Janusz Nasfeter, one of the greatest Polish directors, talks about his childhood and youth, the events of the occupation period and after the war. These memories became an inspiration for his work.

Witold Kaczanowski is one of Poland’s best-known artists, much more famous abroad than in his country of origin. He was born in Poland and spent his childhood under German occupation. Since 1980 he has lived and worked in the USA, where his art attracted numerous admirers and collectors.

For a lonely protagonist, her journey from London to Ozerna, a small village in Ukraine, where she is to meet her relative, unexpectedly becomes the beginning of her way to recover and achieve closeness with another human being. Both protagonists meet at a difficult period in their lives – aunt Slawa is 87 and misses her late husband, and Karina, her junior by a few decades, cannot find her place in life. Friendship, which surpasses generations or nations is being born between the two lost women in the Ukrainian village.

A day in the life of women from the "Nawojka" Dormitory at the Cracow Jagiellonian University. In the 15th century, the patroness of the dormitory tried to study at the university disguised as a man. Today, more than 700 female students studying humanities or science live here.

Things are escaping from the filthy apartment that the small owner does not respect.

The heroes of this film are hands and a violin. We won’t see the hero's face, but we’ll notice a special relationship that exists between the musician and the instrument. It resembles real love. The man is able to make the inanimate instrument a living instrument.

The detective tells about one of his cases.

What starts like a fairy tale set in a god-forsaken small town gradually evolves into a story of migrant women’s private lives. Before the viewer meets the female workers from the local factory, an edit of footage shot by Jerzy Gościk sets the scene for their arrival by going into the past.

Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death.

City traffic is really smooth as long as everyone follows the rules. The protagonist crosses the road not on a zebra crossing, causing an accident. Such walks end in a prison cell.

These intimate situations were recorded with a phone, registered on a VHS tape or filmed using a digital camera. Jakub Ciosiński shows the life of a three-generational family in the context of love failures and problems with relationship building.

What does it mean to be a Jew in Poland now? Piotr Szczepański reveals another surprising piece of the cultural mosaic of Łódź in his documentary. The protagonists' lives prove that close ties with their religion and history do not exclude their relationship with counterculture and propensity for creative provocation. Thanks to people like them – open-minded and unconventional – the Jewish culture has a chance to last and thrive in our country. Besides, ‘@miriamfrompoland’ is a story, which presents a traditional, yet not quite typical, family with impressive observational virtuosity.

A short story about the cone-girl Lotta nad the pear-boy Luke who go for a date. They live in a world where your shape depends of your personality. Pointy, brisk Lotta and round, slow Luke obviously don't fit to each other but they try to do their best.

During the renovation of a tenement house in Lublin in 2010, workers came across a wall that was not included in the building plans. In a hiding place behind it, they discovered a collection of photographs taken on glass. The collection contains over 2,700 glass negatives depicting people who lived in Lublin almost 100 years ago.

A lighthearted comedy about ordinary people, their desires, dreams and perverse fate. On one winter afternoon and night, Joanna, Tadeusz, Mariusz and Julia are looking for peace, success and love. Sometimes, however, what you most need to be happy is luck.

Poland's first documentary about the evolution of the identity of non-heteronormative women . A film about three contemporary Polish lesbian poetesses: A.E Frank , A.A.Grzelczak and I.E.Urban. It is a journey into the inner world of the characters and also to their everyday life - usually inaccessible to the mainstream viewer's eye.

Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk and his wife Ewa have a special relationship. The charismatic maestro, who is successful in the world of music, seems completely helpless and lost in everyday life without his wife's help. She supports him in the simplest everyday activities and makes many life decisions for him.

Father Paleczny, a monk who devoted his life to help the homeless, came up with an idea of building a huge yacht that would take him and his charges around the Earth. He died in 2009, but his last will is still valid. A group of his friends from Warsaw faces this ambitious challenge that requires coordination of many people’s work, perseverance and, above all, sobriety. One of the protagonists is a welder, Sławek. Can he overcome his alcohol addiction and finish the job?

A woman and a child – two people saved by the remembrance. An apocalyptic annihilation has happened in their world. Afterimages of those traumatic events interfere the perception of reality. Woman and child are haunted by a constant sense of insecurity and danger. The surrounding world gives them no chance for the survival. Main characters exist, but as if they were dead. They meet, but they can’t see each other. They only live in those blurred by the time images of human memory.

Memories of an old man about a beautiful girl. In a gray interior, an old man, listening to the sounds of Mozart's Requiem, recalls memories of the past.

Documentary about Palace of Culture and Science located in Warsaw. It shows footage of everyday life in this iconic building. Movie is lacking any commentary - every scene speaks for itself.

A documentary about the sculptor Xawery Dunikowski, shot in his workshop. Director paid a tribute to the artist - a recluse without the artistic inheritors.

Due to the lack of places in Belarusian prisons, an OMON employee has to take in 3 political prisoners for 2 weeks.

The Emigration Museum in Gdynia commissioned a short animated film inspired by the fate of Dżennet Dżabaga-Skibniewska

Marek and Teresa have two children, a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. They both work. When a housekeeper leaves them, a serious problem arises who will look after the house.

The Stal sports club from Tczew has acquired a new player. He is a black basketball player. Unfortunately, the plane with Abraham lands in Gdańsk, not in Warsaw, where he is expected. The boy tries to get to Tczew on his own. Meanwhile, the welcoming delegation mistakes another black man for the basketball player and takes him to Tczew. When the mistake comes to light, everyone sets out to find Abraham. Eventually, the basketball player finds his way to his club. But a rival club is also interested in him and tries to sign him at any cost. Meanwhile, Abraham meets the daughter of the owner of Stal, Monika, and falls in love with her.

In 1575 Transylvania, Captain Szymon Mroczek is sent by Prince Stephen Báthory to Warsaw to win support for his royal bid. Along the way he rescues Agata, disguised as a man, from a witchcraft trial, and they become inseparable allies. As Báthory marries Anna Jagiellon and ascends the throne, Mroczek navigates court intrigues, battles old friend Samuel Zborowski, and ultimately confronts Jan Zamoyski’s ambitions.

In 1939, Joel and Jana escape from their village because of the arrival of the Nazis. That decision would make them the only ones in their family to survive the Holocaust. 80 years later, Juliet, their granddaughter, decides to retrace their steps to understand what lies behind her father's silence. Then, she begins to suspect that there is a part of her own history that was omitted.

An animated short documentary about Alicja and Bożena Wahl, identical twin sisters and visual artists, based on excerpts selected from over 450 diaries kept by Alicja for nearly 50 years and the artistic work of both sisters.

A program written for an experiment. Sikor wanted to try playing with the situation, rather than with jokes, as he had done until then. Potemów was known for its short sketches full of jokes, but in order to develop, it is sometimes necessary to try something different. This is how one of the band's favorite programs was created. It was different, among other things, because the same characters appear throughout the program: King Ferdinand, Rudy, Hania, Lutek Romczyk, Hieronim, Pelargonia, and the mean Jacuś. It was 1993.

Document following the production of Andrzej Wajda's 1973 film "The Wedding". It focuses on Wajda's struggle to decide on a concept of depicting one of the original play's characters, Wernyhora.

The beloved heroine of children’s books will take the audience on a journey to the African savanna, an airport, and a playground construction site! But she won’t be alone! She’ll be accompanied by her loyal friends—Pacek, Adelka, and Julianek! Together, they’ll go on an exciting trip to the forest, where they’ll meet its inhabitants. They’ll also learn about recycling and, in high spirits, head to their first theater performance.

Shot on a miniature set, the film gradually reveals the mechanisms of control and discipline in schools, symbolised by oversized gymnastics vaults and a multiplied number of scales in the nurse’s office.

The oldest group of kindergarten no. 14 in Wrocław is preparing to perform a Nativity play. The film allows the viewer to observe all the ups and downs of this process, but also to learn the answers to the basic questions that trouble 6-year-olds.

The story of a black general of the Polish Legions sent by Napoleon to suppress the uprising of former slaves in Haiti. A tale of a search for identity, faith and freedom, in which Polish romantic ghost befliefs blend with Haitian voodoo tales.

KSW 100: Khalidov vs. Bartosinski was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday November 16, 2024 at the PreZero Arena in Gliwice, Poland.

Polish TV movie.

A sequel or second part to Dinozaury I, a polish educational cartoon about dinosaurs.

After the florist dies, good people take in her daughter. She grows into a beautiful girl and becomes a dancer. Three men fall in love with her at the same time, each of them representing different character traits, and their material position is also different. The first is a count - a low-life, whose advances the girl quickly rejects. The second is a wealthy doctor, a mature and upright man, with whom the girl becomes engaged. There is also a third - a poor painter, a friend of childhood years. At some point the girl becomes convinced that it is the painter who loves her with his one and only love. So she returns the ring to the doctor, gives up her prosperity and decides to bind her poor but happy future to the painter.

Two Ukrainian brothers, Liosza and Dmytro, live and work in Poland, where they hear that a war has broken out in Ukraine. Each of them must decide whether to return or stay in Poland.

A report from the annual celebration of the Apple Blossom Festival in the village of Łącko, Nowy Sącz district.