Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

This intimate documentary explores the spirit and motivation of 79-year-old Teresa Bancewicz, an intrepid hitchhiker stimulated by her meetings with all manner of people in many different cultures.

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.

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.

The film is an impression of a day in the life of a Bulgarian Roma family. Raised in a caravan, the protagonists have settled in the countryside and are trying to cope with the responsibilities of running a farm. In a broader context, it attempts to tell the story of a person's attempt to adapt to new living conditions, to question their value in isolation from tradition, and above all, to express a longing for what is irretrievably lost.

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.

Kindergarten children are very adept at imitating adults, picking up on their manner of behaving and speaking, their foibles and weaknesses. The film observes the family play, in which the adult world can be seen through a distorting mirror.

Polish TV movie.

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

Magda and Michał, actors of the famous Teatr 21, created by people with Down syndrome, fall in love with each other. After the enthusiastically received proposal, the couple begins planning a wedding, which is met with mixed reactions from their loved ones.

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.

The protagonist of the film is Wanda Bart-Gebethner (1917-1980), an actress who quit her profession and took a job at Śródmiejska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa (Central Housing Cooperative). She currently runs the "Za Żelazną Bramą" café and feels more needed in the Cooperative than in the cinema and theater.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

A visit to a laboratory conducting medical experiments on rats. Laboratory workers' reflections on the relationship between rats and humans and the impact of stress on the quality of research.

Corsicans (purple) and Sicilians (red) lean over their relatives' coffins. Each family promises a vendetta against the other family. A whisper saying ‘Vendetta!’ can be heard.

The Germans destroyed all bridges in Warsaw during the war. The reconstruction of the Poniatowski Bridge began in July 1945. Workers from all over Poland were involved in this process. The inauguration ceremony took place on the Day of the Rebirth of Poland (the 22nd of July 1946).

This film tells about people's aspirations to rise to the skies

Turn right, go straight, turn left. A collage of photos of road signs, immortalized on Polaroid in the United States in the early 1990s. A game of ludo with photos and an example of unpretentious visual archeology. Where did the arrows lead? Could these places still exist?

A stylish Louis XIV chair leaves the interior of the house and exposes itself to the forces of nature. It falls prey to a chainsaw that turns everything into a mass of identical, practical objects.

A man-orchestra plays a concert you have never heard before By Michal Socha

Abstract animation by Krzysztof Kiwerski, in which what appears to be some sort of maze-like mechanism produces sentient orb-beings that fall into a lattice of cells. Sometimes these orbs encounter one another, producing unforeseen consequences.

Perhaps it is time to let go of the illusion of certainty about where the screen ends and the outside world begins. A lonely restaurant patron, surrounded by people typing away on their laptops. Passengers in the metro, fixated on their smartphones. A pianist playing a virtual instrument. Through a series of eminently relatable everyday scenes, animator Jola Bańkowska comments on how our lives are shaped by digital technology.

Hela Urbankówna, a poor country girl, comes to the capital to look for work.

They meet for the first time in years. In the family home, where the past presses in, reality and longing collide.

A young woman dreaming of a stable relationship discovers that her current partner is just wasting her time, so she plans swift revenge.

A grotesque tale about crazy firefighters embarking on a rescue mission.

Cut-out stop motion animation whereby a hazelnut attempts to escape from dangerous environments and creatures which all either want to crush or eat it.

The first documentary realized by Danuta Halladin after her studies announces one of the main themes of her future films: children and childhood. Alone in the World is a story about orphanages.

The scientists speaking in the film make it clear that hundreds of people in institutes around the world worked together in working groups on the digital breakthrough. In Poland, we did not have advanced equipment, but scientific thought did not differ in level from the West. Parallel to the political events - the Solidarity strikes, the Round Table talks, the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc - a digital revolution was taking place.

Bored with his job, an office clerk accidentally finds a passport hidden in the toilet, which leads him to start an investigation.

The film talks about birth, Coming and going; whether a person can break free from under the influence exerted on One's life by the time and place of birth, and bt the event of turning up in one's own pram. And whether one is aware of the invisible, sometimes destructive, the influence of our ancestors, which might result in one never being able to leave this pram. It is a symbolically metaphorical short story of one such pram, inspired by Lullaby/ Kolysanka by Krzysztof Komeda, among others.

How do puppet theaters work in Poland? What is the art of creating dolls and props for a performance? On the example of the Puppet Theater "Arlekin" in Łódź, we will see a puppet show from the backstage.

A documentary impression from the capital of the Tatra Mountains. All the winter attractions of Zakopane rhythmically presented by the camera: sleigh rides, skis, dances, sunbathes, bonfires. Visit Zakopane!

A group of children are entertained by a seemingly harmless beachside magician who eventually lures them into playing with real weapons.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Bałuty district in Łódź, a young man lost in the grind of part-time jobs hides his true self. Harsh words and rough streets fill his days until one person makes him realise there’s more. Together they roam the city on a scooter, sharing meals and moments before it’s time to say goodbye.