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The film is set in the Bialystok region on the holy mountain of Grabarka, the areas of Siemiatycz, Milejczyc and others. The protagonist is John Trochimczyk, who driven by misfortune decides to carry the cross before the feast of the Saviour and dedicate it to Grabarka to rescue his sick wife. With a wooden cross provided, he meets along the way local people and all the time is approaching the sacred mountains of Grabarka.
A film depicting traditional highland dances and the charm of the Podhale landscape. The filmmaker, Eugeniusz Cękalski, was associated with the environment of the film avant-garde, hence the use of treatments unusual for a documentary film. "Highland Dances" is not only a recording of folk dancing, but above all an artistic reportage, showing dancers from different perspectives, using close-ups showing the beauty of regional costumes neatly interspersed with views of the Tatra outdoors. The film featured the Dance Ensemble of the Folk Theater Association.
A student at a Catholic school experiences a blackout during an exam, triggering a mental breakdown that sends him into a dark spiral.
Polish festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa pays tribute to the symphonic legacy of Wayne Shorter, led by multi-instrumentalist esperanza spalding. A concert featuring ssperanza spalding's quartet, conductor Clark Rundell and the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Anka ends up at a historical reenactment camp thanks to her boyfriend. She tries to find her place in the community, but it turns out that historical prejudices against women are surprisingly current. The camp participants are dedicated to playing roles from the past, but at the same time, there is a modern social game going on between them.
The film shows the lives of craftsmen in Karachi and nearby villages, their daily work intertwined with the rhythm of nature and the city.
Uroczystości powitania cara w Warszawie (translated as Ceremonies Welcoming the Tsar in Warsaw) is a 1897 documentary film directed by Bolesław Matuszewski, capturing the grand event of Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Warsaw. The film offers a historical glimpse into the ceremonial reception of the Russian Emperor during his trip to the Polish capital at the turn of the 20th century. As one of Matuszewski’s significant works, it highlights the precision of early documentary filmmaking in Poland, documenting key moments of imperial Russian influence and the grandeur of such royal occasions. The film stands as an important example of early cinematic documentation of political and social events in Eastern Europe.
It is a portrait of the Antczak couple. They are blind, however, they work, have kids, and live in a society. It is surprising for other people.
Abu Haraz is a Sudanese village on the River Nile, where the villagers lead simple happy lives. Soon they will all face a major change - the large dam is being built and their village is going to disappear under water.
Short work by Barbara Rupik
An enthusiast of morning gymnastics is so entangled during exercise that a doctor's intervention is needed.
The story of three former miners who escape to a nearby bar during Sunday mass. Over a beer, they reminisce about past events: adventures with the mining office, with two mine directors, with the Sunday party deed. They also reminisce about a fatal accident "at the bottom" and a breakdown of the machinery supplying the mines with electricity.
The plot is unknown and not much is known about the film. It's part of the 'French as Seen by...' collection
Distance traveled, distant friends, hopes and dreams. Time spent waiting quietly. A sense of incoming change.
Piotr catches the biggest and most disgusting fish in a fishing competition. His life immediately starts to change for the better, and he begins to see a salutary amulet in the fish that he caught. Unfortunately, the fish also brings apocalyptic destruction to the world. Piotr will have to choose between his own best interest and that of his entire island community.
A film miniature to classical music. Chopin's nostalgic music illustrated in the film image with associations with the Polish countryside through poetics taken from 19th century painting. Fields of grain with flowering poppies, a country road with a ladder cart, a thatched cottage, a hearth, a well with a crane and a woman carrying a bucket of water. The images seamlessly intermingle with each other to create a highly evocative story about the passing and transience of moments filled with work from dawn to dusk.
Due to the pandemic, a couple of filmmakers were stuck on the Bolivian-Chilean border for a year and a half. Filmed by the characters, this is a visual story about growing up and trying to stabilise their relationship in a world that is going through a crisis.
A boy who doesn't like his own shadow paints over the sun. Is that a good idea?
An animated short film on the food industry.
In a city whose selfish residents do not cultivate the title virtues, the hero appears with an unusual suitcase. It contains a paper model of an ideal city, reminding the hero of his place of origin: there people were kind and friendly to each other. When one day the city in the suitcase comes to life, the protagonist tries to share his ideals with the environment, which is fed by cheap sensationalism and brutality on a daily basis.
Tomek and Gucia are a pair of seven-year-olds. On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, they engage in typical children’s games after school – playing hopscotch and hide-and-seek, doing somersaults on the beater and climbing the wall. But above all, they play with each other – the boy tries to turn the girl into a boy named Piotrek. However, behind childhood games there is something much more serious – the first feeling.
Zanadrze is a world where quarrelsome inhabitants build their crooked houses upside down on different levels, run up endless stairs, and hammer a stake through Grandma. The inhabitants form Grandma's Funeral Procession. Zanadrze is located in the middle of the Black Coat, who, in memory, plays the saxophone in the rain in the middle of the road until he is run over by a speeding car. The abandoned instrument is taken by Janko Muzykant.
A documentary in which the director attempts to touch upon the subject of Polish punk subculture at the end of martial law. The punk movement seems to be the sincere voice of a generation in a world of ubiquitous propaganda.
The brothers Ubi and Obi live in Lailonia in the city of Ruru. The authority over the city is held by the god Maior. The basic law of the god Maior is that everything for humans is at the bottom, what for the god is at the top. The brothers live according to the laws established by the god Maior, until Obi rebels against them. Soon the brothers separate and Obi dies. For breaking his laws, the god Maior sentences Obi to stay in hell. Ubi also dies, and since he always obeyed the god's laws, he goes to heaven. The brothers are separated even after death. Ubi is not happy in heaven and wants to go to hell. The god Maior, however, does not agree. A revolt breaks out in heaven. God Maior abdicates. From now on, the living and deceased residents of the city of Ruru have to fend for themselves.
With lyrics translated from an imaginary language, Sonia Oleniak’s filmic song cycle follows a cohort of sleepless solitaries through the night of a lunar eclipse. Strange singing and luminous images make mythopoesis of their labors and losses. In a boardwalk café, they convene for respite from their surreal nocturnal rituals, shot through with birds, salt, and violin rosin.
An extraordinary film based on poignant letters written by Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front, intercepted during the war by the Home Army intelligence unit.
In 1948 on the Gardno lake near Szela village 21 girl scouts drowned. It was supposed to be a dream day. The girls wanted to see the sea. That morning they went to church, sleep-deprived – the previous night they had sat for a long time by the bonfire, busy discussing an old legend about princess Wanda who drowned in the rapid currents of Vistula river.
Reportage from the construction of a major highway.
A story about Kazimierz in Krakow.
How well, if at all, did we know Jacek Kaczmarski, an outstanding Polish poet and singer? The documentary makes an attempt to draw a complex, multi-dimensional portrait of a singer-songwriter which reveals a tragic figure torn between the passion of creation, perfectionism and his own weaknesses. It also tries to confront the myth of the bard of the Solidarity movement, the moniker that tired the charismatic author of ‘Walls’, a protest song, and became a reason for later alienation.
Subtle observation of an everyday life of two refugees from Chechnya living in Warsaw, Poland, 10-year-old Magomed and his father Vakha, which becomes a story about human's love and dignity.
This documentary shows how everyday life becomes special when you turn on the camera. Film concentrates on the magic of common things which people usually don't notice in their daily lives.
At the seaside beach fates of balding sailor, young girl and two modest creatures - the bee and the crab are tangling.
A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs.
Magda and Paweł seem to have different expectations of life: she needs a bit of craziness, and he needs a bit of normality. Even though Magda cannot imagine living in the countryside, following Paweł's will, they decide to buy a farm near Serock. Magda and Paweł, not without problems, buy the farm from old farmers. The youngsters start to manage the homestead, at the same time they undergo some mental changes. Paweł's father dies, his mother decides to be an adviser to her son and Magda. The girl begins to trust life, however, she loses her first baby. Paweł finds it difficult to get along with the local farming club. The spouses share with us their fears, hopes and reflections.
Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, performed by Daniel Olbrychski. The film presents various stages of the preparations – from trying on the costumes and memorizing lines to the final staging.
A boy tries to tame a horse in a large forest clearing covered with snow.
In his first film about sports Dziworski presented Janusz Pyciak-Peciak before the sportsman became the world and Olympic champion. But Modern Pentathlon is, above all, a little treaty about the physical endurance of man.
A highly expressive cry from the author of the manifesto, uttered while his head emerges from the water: "I should like to tell you all that art is energy!"
The nameless gangster meets again with his former partner. It turns out that he is burdened by the need to make an irrevocable decision.
Short film by acclaimed polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. Included in The Workshop of the Film Form
End of World War II. The director of the Wrocław zoo is decommissioning the facility on the orders of the Germans.
The brothers, Zbigniew and Stefan, return from a war expedition to their patrimony.
Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.
Documentary showing the social moods related to the construction of a nuclear power plant on Lake Kopań, near Darłowo. The documentary presents the position of members of the Ecological Civic Committee "Vigil" against the initiative and the voices of regional authorities, seeing the construction as an opportunity to develop the community.
A unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.
In Great Zimbabwe, the Rozvi Empire attempts to steal the Moon from the sky because it looks like a plate. The country suffers a severe famine, but the Moon is a magical woman who wants to go down her own way
