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In the Republic of Tuva, the main symbol of the culture of the people is throat singing ("khoomei"). But the Tuvan tradition says that only a man is allowed to perform khoomei, women are forbidden to do so. Those who violate the rule predict serious problems in their personal lives. Despite the ban, several women in Tuva still sing...
A young girl has immigrated. Functioning in a new environment is slowly turning into a routine, and she herself – into a modern Frankenstein’s creation.
This film takes the audience to the centre for the blind in Laski. We try to get to know the reality of blind children - full of sounds, smells and carefully studied shapes. Carefully, with their fingers, they check the physiognomy of living animals and then recreate them from clay. Thanks to the aesthetics of the film, seemingly simple activities performed by the wards of the establishment gain a deeper, symbolic dimension.
Longtime friends Michal and Kuba decide to illegally explore a little-known cave in the Tatra Mountains. When they get lost in the maze of passages, losing their way back, they are on their own. After three weeks, one of them, under mysterious circumstances, manages to get to the surface. Extremely exhausted, he slowly recovers, but is unable to accurately reconstruct the events of the cave or answer questions posed during the police investigation. The man finds himself facing manslaughter charges for the death of his friend - although even these circumstances are not entirely clear. Encouraged to enter therapy, he begins attending meetings, which brings back a series of subconsciously repressed memories and tightens the noose of madness around his neck. Plagued by nightmarish visions, he inevitably comes closer to confronting the truth as his worst fears awaken each night...
War is raging in Poland, and nothing is certain. The Germans are retreating, and Soviet troops are taking their place. In these turbulent times, feelings develop between Alfred Rupiejko and Bronka Wereszczyńska. The girl and her brothers hide the Florian bell from confiscation. The siblings are betrayed, but they decide not to give up without a fight.
A black and white fairy tale with a card motif, in which red - the color of passion appears only with the feeling between the Prince and Princess. The alchemy of love is not a simple equation or a mixture of colors.
Musical based on SIKSA's album is a performative dream of making a movie come true, where both the dream and the movie are like chewing gum that has been tasteless for too long. A nostalgic invitation to a dancing story about a girl returning to her childhood, when she dressed up as different women using her mother's wardrobe, and all the roles she played were to please herself. This film is a tool for reconstructing the scenes from the youth, as well as a baroque farewell to all the glitter and unicorns. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is like a bayonet slashing through modern times. She gives us micro-performances with all her body, and at her own risk. SIKSA's music is the scenario rejected, grinded, spat out, negated and intensified by the characters. Piotr Macha's camera is one of the murder weapons that SIKSA would like to use to fuck up the modern reality. It's a language of art that SIKSA has been using almost unnoticed since 2014.
Piwowski’s most controversial documentary, a portrait of Czesław Niemen (1939-2004), an outstanding musician and vocalist, a year after the legendary song "Strange Is This World" was released.
A stop-motion allegorical fable about the power of fashion magazines on self-image, and how everybody wants to look different instead of being content with themselves.
The villagers one day are surprised by a strange phenomenon - a high embankment begins to form all over the area. Like in a mole pit, the shifting earth destroys everything around it. After the "cataclysm", new blocks of flats - all made of concrete slab - rise in place of the destroyed farms. Only the residents, transferred to new conditions, do not change their habits.
Fragments of memories, dreams and life experiences come together in Impressionist and ethereal images
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
Sylwia, a ballet dancer chosen for the lead in “Romeo and Juliet,” breaks her spine and faces a career’s end while her filmmaker husband Andrzej pursues his debut and an affair with his director’s secretary. Conflicted between love, ambition, and sacrifice, they and Sylwia’s devoted friend Agata navigate betrayal, recovery, and the chance for new beginnings.
The first documentary by Wojciech Staroń. He just finished film school, his wife Małgosia just became a teacher. The year is 1997. They decide to go for a year deep into Siberia: she’ll teach Polish, he’ll shoot a film. And this is that beautiful film, narrated in the first person by Małgosia as she meets all sorts of colorful characters and reflects upon reality with her beautiful, monotone voice, seeing the good in people individually and collectively. This is also about her transformation in this travel undertaken in the centuries-old fashion of the observer who, by observing others, observes herself.
A road movie about three friends who go through a night of fights, separations, arguments, friendship, love and dirty jokes. The common denominator is their constant battle against loneliness.
The film consists of eight parts: 1) Polonia, 2) The Partition of Poland, 3) To the Katorga, 4) The Galician Slaughter, 5) The Treaty of Versailles, 6) Drzymała's Carriage, 7) The Greater Poland Uprising, 8) The Wrzesińska Case. The staged passages were supplemented with documentary photos of famous localities, monuments, important events, life and achievements of the inhabitants of Poznan and Greater Poland.
Propaganda-saturated reportage on the trial of Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek, the Ordinary of the Kielce diocese, who was arrested on charges of spying for the United States and the Vatican and fascists.
"Afterimages" is a short story about one plate from the archive of Ryszard Kisiel, the creator of "Filo" - one of the first gay zines in Central and Eastern Europe. The evoked negative from the end of the ‘80s is the starting point for both Kisiel's personal history and the portrait of the gay scene of the late PRL.
A story about King Midas, famous for his boundless greed.
In the toy store, a curious little teddy bear was locked in, with dreams of going out into the world. What's outside waiting for him? Will going out to the snow bring him joy?
Kherson was occupied by the Russians for almost nine months. In November 2022, Ukrainian forces liberated the city, yet it remains under fire. It is separated from the enemy only by the Dnieper River – a distance of less than five kilometres.
A detective agency run by women helps others accusing their partners of betrayal.
The film's protagonist is one of the most important creators of Polish popular culture, a songwriter whose lyrics have accompanied generations of listeners for decades. The production reveals a lesser-known side of the artist, showing that his work extends far beyond the world of musical hits.
The attitude of young employees toward the older staff—the dairy workers.
Women of all ages come to a large house in the countryside for the so-called "Circle." It is an informal meeting of women who, detached from the rhythm of everyday life, share their experiences.
A film about the pilgrimage to Rome for the funeral of the Pope.
Documentary portrait of a mysterious man who guarded order in Lomza in the '80s. Memories of the sheriff provide an opportunity to show the grim reality of Lomza. Focused like a lens on some problems plaguing the country - alcoholism, stupefaction, the disappearance of ambition and aspiration, crime, the lack of hope for any change. All this is tried to be remedied by the almost fairy-tale character of an extreme idealist from Lomza - the title sheriff - who single-handedly undertakes the fight against all manifestations of evil, exposing himself to ridicule and even suspicion of mental illness.
Marta wants to break up, but her partner doesn't want to move out.
Roman Gutek sets off on a journey through time, back to Sanok, where New Horizons found safe harbour for its first edition. He revisits places that, for five fleeting minutes, played a part in the festival’s life, and left an indelible mark on a generation of Poles born in the 1970s and ’80s.
A silent, sandy impression of a secret affair between two Catholic priests. Their affection blooms between one bed of strawberries and another, in a garden next to an Italian rectory.
Alpine Wall Tour is a feature documentary about two top Polish alpinists Łukasz Dudek and Jacek Matuszek. The story follows the climbers on the biggest European walls such as Tre Cime di Lavaredo in Dolomites and Monte Brento in Sarca Valley. Among the beautiful views and hard and dangerous climbs it is a story about overcoming your own weaknesses, about passion and partnership in the mountains.
A profile of Wiesław Ciasnowski, a tutor of one of the Polish Socialist Youth Union clubs, awarded the prize for the best tutor. He created a fan club "Kora" a few years ago. The fans of the lead singer of the band "Maanam" who are associated in it attend concerts, analyze her work, study her biography.
A story of a woman who lost her memory in a waffle-maker factory.
The documentary shows the southern face of Zamarła Turnia, considered at the beginning of the 20th century to be the most difficult climbing route in the Tatra Mountains.
The film from the series "Impressions" realized in the technique of classical animation made with painting technique on celluloid. The viewer's guide through selected paintings by Marc Chagall is the figure of the Jew - the Eternal Wanderer, a symbol of the artist's feelings and experiences. Through the composition of selected paintings or their fragments, the film refers to the artist's life experiences and his self-defining worldview.
Animals play the role of people.
A collection of comments, taken from a video of a gunfight in Syria. Oh, the humanity!
If those who knew him are to be believed, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was always surrounded by women intrigued by this "demigod of Zakopane's Olympus." They were attracted not only by his painterly and literary fame, but also by the extraordinary beauty of the artist: tall, well-built, with beautiful gray-green eyes and very proportional features. Magdalena Samozwaniec, who knew him from childhood, recalled: "He was always and constantly in love. Just as others could not imagine life without money, he could not imagine life without love."
A film featuring Bolek and Lolek about traffic regulations.
Purnonsesque tale of the adventures of a horse, stolen by accident from a certain diplomat.
In 1980, Krzysztof Kieslowski asked hundreds of people the same three questions: what year were you born? who are you? what would you like/what is important to you? From the recorded statements, he eventually selected 44 people and ranked them chronologically, guided by the age of the interviewees: from the youngest to the oldest so that there was one person's statement for each vintage. A gallery of talking heads: from kindergarten children, through schoolchildren, students, engineers, electricians, nurses, priests, writers, sociologists, cab drivers, to pensioners even a hundred years old, made up a collective portrait of a Pole - a keen observer of reality, aware of his identity and the place where he lives, eager for change. A quarter of a century later, Krzysztof Wierzbicki repeated that idea here.
The history of Warsaw's Bristol Hotel until 1981, when it underwent renovation.
After Piotrek is attacked by a group of guys from his school, a taxi driver named Arek helps him home but during their journey, Arek makes Piotrek an offer that will change his night, if not his life.