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A documentary on Meredith Monk, a composer, singer, director/choreographer, and creator of new opera, music theater works, films, and installations. She pioneered what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance."
A Lidia Hornicka Animated Short Film
Stuck in Shatila refugee camp without an identity, Khodor is a loud, unpredictable teenager whose life revolves around pigeons, fleeting relationships, and a system that won't recognize him. As his stepmother fights to secure an ID that would grant him freedom beyond the camp, access to education, and health care, Khodor's wild spirit and charm leave us wondering-can a boy with no papers ever find a way out?
The life of Sisi, a visually impaired young woman, is filled with loneliness. She spends her days indoors under the supervision of an overprotective aunt. Longing for more, Sisi takes matters into her own hands and plans a secret date.
A troubled man finds an outlet for his emotions in brutal slap fighting competitions. In his quest for recognition, he gradually pushes boundaries, regardless of the consequences.
Drawing on various forms of expression, from caricature to die-cutting, patchwork, and animation, "Historiae vivae" recaptures the unique atmosphere of silent cinema.
"I'm looking for someone who wants to make a film about them" - was the announcement that the director published while searching for a new subject for a documentary. The film is a recording of the casting process that the director conducted with the candidates.
A director of the 1980s generation travels from Poland to South Africa to take a look at the reality of his peers. He becomes one of the characters in the film. He wants to find out what changes the world of South Africa has experienced 25 years after the fall of apartheid. Has the dream of a multicultural community, called Rainbow Nation by Nelson Mandela, come true? Do Africans live in harmony with the indigenous South Africans? Has the much heralded equality survived? What traces of post-apartheid can be found in the socio-political mood of South Africa? By learning about the country, he will try to understand its complicated history and provide an insight into the current situation facing South Africans.
A single-user VR experience exploring virtual interactivity and algorithmic behavior. It redefines user consent, integrating it into a layered digital interaction. The project also investigates algorithmic responses, exploring notions of consciousness, deception, and singularity, bridging human and non-human perspectives.
Off-kilter behavior is promoted by a street lamp who brings to town the strangest animal visitors. Could be a lie, but it's the purest truth.
A tram leaves the depot in the morning. As a geography teacher in mid-thirties takes her daily commute to work, an accidental meeting in the tram awakens long dormant desires.
A humorous grotesque about an average man who asks himself a basic philosophical question about the meaning of existence.
Two angels participate in the hair-cutting ceremony of Piast's son.
Reconstruction of the last days of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's life and recording of the ceremony of bringing his remains to Poland.
An elderly man living in an old tenement house has to move to a new apartment building. Despite its many amenities, he feels terrible there, like a bird in a cage or a plant transplanted to a new location.
A short film about what someone's eyes has seen one spring.
An old double bass player is looking for work. He travels around the city with his instrument and asks about vacancies in his profession.
A girl living in a semi-physical, semi-digital world starts hearing her new neighbor through the wall.
The story of a 7 year old Kaznik who cannot get over the fact that his beloved aunt Dagna will not accompany him to school.
A mysterious man enters the night bar. There is no one inside except for a bartender and a black cat. Alcohol and imagination from noir comics will do their job.
Their relationship became dead. They are dead inside and dead outside.
A report on judo fighting, from warming up and stretching, to exercises of specific grips and "small fights" between participants, provided with commentary from the trainer.
A young Jew arrives in a small town, which causes consternation among the inhabitants.
Tadeusz reminisces about his childhood, when he met his current wife.
A group of artists prepares an Open Gallery on the town square in Krapkowice in Silesia. After a year, the first parts of it are already in a deplorable condition. Whose fault is it?
A record of the first days of the so-called ‘Polska Lubelska’. The camera focused on life in Lublin and other Polish pieces of land conquered in 1944 as a result of the July offensive of the Polish and Red Army. This documentary was made from the perspective of the thirtieth anniversary of People's Poland.
In 1969, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, documentary filmmakers analyze the achievements of the past 25 years. Contemporary, color photos contrast with black and white, archival photos. Workers of different generations are the hosts of the country.
A telephone conversation with a dressmaker who had a bad day.
Russians working at the bazaar near the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw talk about their everyday life.
An adult going through a period of reevaluation analyzes his past life. The film is a sentimental journey into the world of emotions.
A graphic and sonic diary composed of everyday paper waste, such as labels, etiquettes, tickets, etc., as well as cigarette packets a smoker went through over the course of six years.
A documentary about Totart, an artistic formation from Gdansk whose iconoclastic and mocking appearances shook up the grim People's Poland reality of the 1980s. It is also a story about the phenomenon of the group's spiritual leader and ideologue Zbigniew Sajnóg and his surprising accession to the Niebo cult.
"Recipe for Life" star Rafał Rutkowski and Comedy Lab's Olka Szczęśniak serve up humorous impressions and wry wit at Warsaw's Klub Hybrydy.
The film follows the journey of the body and belongings of a recently deceased lonely person.
Polish professional heavyweight Marcin Rozalski cuts a menacing figure with his shaved head, tattoo-covered body and his two pit-bulls, Stalin and Satan. The movie takes an intimate look at the man behind the bellicose mask and what motivates him to fight everyday.
1978 Polish animated short
A way for summer by Bolek and Lolek.
When the clock strikes the south, goats appear on the tower of the Poznań Town Hall. Today it is one of the most important tourist attractions of Poznań. But not everyone knows where they came from. And this happened a long time ago, when during the ceremony with the participation of the Voivode and her daughter Dorothy, a new clock was presented by Master Tiktakus. Respectable guests were planned to eat the roast from a deer, but this was completely burned by carelessness. To avoid scandal, the city guard snuck into a nearby home and stole two goats from it.
After 15 years behind bars, Piotr finally gets prison leave. Is anyone waiting for him? How will he find himself in the modern world? How will he embrace this short breath of freedom?
Nobody is as confident as they look!
Trying to reconnect, father and daughter go on vacation together. Will they be able to rebuild their relationship?
Reema works in the Well of Death – a carnival sideshow in Pakistan, where motorcyclists perform stunts and Reema dances to attract spectators, living the life of a nomad. Shattered by the loss of her love – Asif, heartbroken Reema travels back to her ”Guru”, who runs the transgender house where she grew up. “Well of Dreams” is a tale about the hopes and trials of Reema, set in a world where love can only be seen on a cinema screen in Lollywood films.
Two little boys watch how clocks are repaired.
The technique of animated photographs. A grotesque tale about a man's life, his problems, and the situations he must adapt to.
A parable about the human pursuit of the absolute, which often takes the form of a brutal rat race, inspired by Jacek Gaj's copperplate engraving Ladders. Its characters climb higher and higher, trying to reach a colorful mirage that appears from time to time. The goal will never be achieved, as successive "ladders" will only allow them to pass the next levels of their journey. What remains is the toil of Sisyphean wandering.
17-year-old Tosia starts working at an erotic massage parlor in a provincial town in Poland...
A trip with a camera to East Africa. The aim is to discover its history, culture, religion and modern achievements. The ideological frame was the alliance of the Eastern bloc with African socialism.