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Directors Katarzyna Iskra and Justyna Pelc encourage several characters to surrender themselves to the hands of a therapist offering non-erotic touch sessions. The soothing effect of this unusual procedure also affects us, reminding us that cinema has the potential to be not only a space for reflection but also relaxation.
In a certain tenement house, a resident of the top floor once again makes life difficult for his neighbors. Neighbors are forced to react to his behavior.
An original impressionistic film that asks viewers about the shape and duration of life. By fulfilling their needs, humans devastate the environment and cause ecological disasters. It is also up to them whether life will be destroyed or continue.
Referred to by the creators themselves as a film poster, it'ss a typical example of an agitational message. The aim of the movie is to attack the bourgeois order and the aversion of the upper classes to the communist system.
The film is the author's message of memories and reflections evoked by the celebrations of the anniversary of Warsaw's uprising. The picture of the cemetery with crowds of people who came to visit the graves of the insurgents presented in a way that aroused emotions because of the power of the memories it refers to, but also because of the fact that the anniversary was private, unorganized - it was an expression of spontaneous, grassroots activity. The Warsaw Uprising lived in the memories and emotions of those who remembered it, who lost loved ones, friends, acquaintances, but also lost their city, because Warsaw is also the subject of this personal anniversary.
"Pierogi - stories with stuffing" are short glances towards four different worlds. The characters of the film will let you into their lives for a moment, but they don't promise to reckon how their stories will end. In fact, you can be sure they left the endings for themselves. Stuffed stories are a search for the unusual in the ordinary. It is worth absorbing this uniqueness. Remember, the door will only be ajar for a moment.
A visual Portrait of one’s internal speech, flowing like a river of thoughts, with the intention of seeking truth. The alphabet of feelings, associations, fears, memories overwhelming our mind, impossible to escape from. It is up to us to give them direction.
In this video, with every minute, the artist's body becomes more and more machine, element of a perfectly working clock mechanism, it becomes ornament; to the extent that at some point a new “organism” emerges, with the many Anetas playing the role of head, hands, torso, legs.
The film is a continuation of the films I Died to Live in 1984 and After My Funeral in 1989. As in the second part, the action consists of fictional events (the first part was about real events). Błażejewski is caught in a round-up. Leopold Wójcik's papers were found with him. The pointer lets Wójcik know about this event and warns his colleagues from Kielce who manage to escape. During the interrogation, Błażejewski denies the papers that were found with him. Soon he is released. This does not mean the end of problems for people dealing with Wójcik's case.
A story about an early marital crisis caused by unfulfilled expectations and lack of communication. Janek and Marzena face their innermost demons under the watchful eye of an unconventional therapist whose therapy plan gets out of control. Reality seems to blur, and suppressed complaints and insinuations start to turn against the characters.
Two friends enjoy a balloon ride.
"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.
Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements.
Adam is young and very ambitious journalist working in local newspaper - 'Pomerania Courier' - in Gdansk (Poland). One day he receives a stamped envelope by mail. There's a text in Latin written on that envelope: 'Tibi et Igni' (eng. 'For you and for fire'). He finds 3 photos of his fiancée Annie inside the envelope. Annie claims that these photos were made in places where she has never been and with people she has never met. Adam starts his own private investigation in order to find out who and why sent him these pictures. The investigation leads him to discovery of a terrifying truth.
A 16-year-old girl living in Ustka meets a boy with whom she falls in love at first sight. When Paweł goes to his hometown of Poznań, the girl decides to be with her beloved at all costs.
Children's Day, in the area you can hear laughter and singing of children playing, but the protagonist of the film due to illness can not take part in these games. He reaches for his telescope and begins to observe the sky, on which he sees... an incoming space vehicle. The ship stops over his house, and the crew invites the boy inside. His aunt opposes this, but she is also invited on board. This is how the adventure begins, during which children from all over the world will meet to admire the stars and planets.
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.
Tadek was so thin that he was lifted up into the sky by a balloon bought by his grandfather. He had to put on weight to get back down.
In 2018, a Polish cow escaped on route to the slaughterhouse, swam to a nearby island and caused chaos. This film revisits the event, probing the narratives we construct about the countryside, other beings, and who holds the power to tell them.
Road movie. About searching for truth, oneself, and lost meaning, as well as about Love. One minute of this animated film is over a year of the author's life. Initially inspired by the story of the so-called enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "Buddha". The film morphs, changing with its creator, to its current form (only the butterfly and the tree remain from the original version of the film). The film consists of selected verses from the Book of Psalms.
2 teenager look for a job i near future SIlesia.
A short movie inspired by cycle races.
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.
A documentary about New Years' Dziady, the disguisers from Beskid Żywiecki, who go around the villages, making noise, scaring people and begging for handouts. Disguised as death, horses and devils, they wander accompanied by musos.
The attitude of young employees toward the older staff—the dairy workers.
A black-and-white range of shapes and gradient colour saturations demonstrates the possibilities of the digital image. This visual narrative treats the screen as a space that exists parallel to the physical world, inviting us to explore an unreal three-dimensional universe whose depths are amplified by Tim Prebble’s ambient soundtrack.
A jealous femcel decides to get revenge on her Stacy roommate by killing her cat, but what she doesn't realize is that this dead cat will become a reanimated Garlic metalhead(?), which she immediately tries to have sex with.
The film follows a young man as he tries to preserve his everyday life in the form of a video diary. He shares those important moments (both beautiful and trivial) with his girlfriend and his best friend.
A short documentary.
Dutchman Ebert is organizing a casting call in Poland to find a wife.
Traditional wrestling, or "laamb", is arguably Senegal's national sport, exceeding even football in popularity. Matches, usually held in open-air arenas, are social and cultural events with fighters and spectators enacting rituals with a significance that date back hundreds of years. The top tier of champions can earn up to $100,000 a fight, an unimaginable sum of money to most Senegalese, and the dream of becoming a professional wrestler spurs on many young men, for a few years at least. In the down-market suburb of Pikine in the capital Dakar - where 70 percent of the population are under the age of 25 and more than half the population lives on or below the poverty line - five friends are determined to become wrestling stars. Thiam, Lamine, Abdou, Cissokho and M'Baye have opened their own, informal, wrestling school and train for hours every day. Their hope is to catch the eye of one person in particular - Madame Ndeye Ndiaye Tyson, one of Senegal's leading wrestling promoters.
The history of the Wylatowa area is intriguing and fascinating. For six years now people have been gathering there who are convinced of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms regularly visiting our planet. Since the second sign appeared equally a year after the first one, groups of determined ufologists and fascinated people decided to prove that they are or are not a work and a proof of the presence of UFOs. This topic attracted the interest of Maciej Cuske "The film is about one particular enthusiast, ready to give up practically everything to prove that a UFO really exists. It is a documentary about a passion that borders on madness and even leads to loss". - says director Maciej Cuske about his documentary.
The story of Warsaw has been ignored for decades. It was hardly mentioned at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, despite the colossal casualty figures and documented atrocities committed by the SS during its course. Perhaps this is because none of the allies were comfortable with its legacy. The Western allies, having gone to war over Poland, left its people at the mercy of a new occupying force.
A short film focusing on the lives and problems of the elderly in Poland circa 1986.
The protagonist of the film is film director Krzysztof Nowak-Tyszowiecki. The film is a humbling story of the protagonist confessing to the camera about his personal disappointments. The film is a symbolic journey through life.
Jozef Pilsudski's death was a great event, talked about all over Europe. One of the many films immortalising the Marshal's funeral celebrations in Vilnius is the following report by Stanisław Urbanowicz. The film shows picturesque views of the city, places particularly associated with the figure of Piłsudski, and the funeral procession carrying the urn containing the Marshal's heart to the Ross Cemetery. Unfortunately, the only surviving copy is incomplete: it lacks an ending. The ending was partially reconstructed thanks to excerpts from the working material, without a soundtrack.
A film depicting traditional Krakow dances and the charm of the landscape of the Krakow area. The filmmaker, Eugeniusz Cękalski, was associated with the environment of the film avant-garde, hence the use of treatments unusual for a documentary film. "Krakow Dances" is not only a recording of folk dancing, but above all an artistic reportage, showing dancing couples from different perspectives, using close-ups and slow-motion shots, which allowed to expose the dynamics of movement and the beauty of regional costumes. The film featured the Folk Theater Association's Dance Ensemble.
A mother who has lost her parental rights, after two years without seeing her daughters, kidnaps them from school to spend the day with them, regain their trust, and prove that she is a good mother.
A mysterious story that combines live action with animation. At first, it seems that there is no one in the hospital room. Then, we see a motionless figure covered with a white cloth on the table. The shroud bears traces of past events. The sound of footsteps heard by the heroine, on the verge of consciousness, begins her journey into her inner world or the vestibule of the afterlife.
A young woman waits on the platform for the train to arrive. The first one doesn’t even stop. Another one carries luxury goods, another one is a train full of film stars and the last one carries vodka and it crashes against a wall. It turns out that the woman is not alone in the pursuit of goods, career and alcohol.