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Dorota is a young mother who works in a library and walk with a limp. She lives in a small town which seems to be as asleep as she, her husband and their dreams are. One day Wiola the yogi appears, waking them up and disarraying their lives.
The film protagonist operates on the border of two worlds. During the day, he works at a well-known shop selling home furnishings, while after hours he is hired by a “cleaning company” to clean homes after the deaths of their residents.The title “A Story of Short Duration” is a reference to the diagnosis of contemporary capitalism provided by Kacper Pobłocki in his book. In the film, it acquires an additional meaning by contrasting the image of a life’s end with the beginning of one’s path related to the moving into a new flat.
A TV musical featuring the appearances of famed actor Bogumił Kobiela and the most popular Polish musicians of the time.
The film is a portrait of Jerzy Orłowski, an armless graphic artist. Impressionistic scenes present the protagonist in various situations: when he has to deal with everyday chores, when he jumps into water, skis and draws. Even the simplest activity requires struggle, resilience and outstanding fitness from him. Many takes are in slow motion, contemplating the smallest detail, which the director is so skilfully able to bring out.
EDEN is a hand-painted feature-length animated film directed by Andrzej Czeczot and produced between 1996 and 2002. The story follows Józek, an ordinary man suddenly drawn into a surreal infernal world populated by grotesque figures, shifting identities and unstable realities. As he moves through a landscape of continuous metamorphosis, angels transform into demons, music reshapes space, and familiar cultural symbols dissolve into dreamlike visions. Structured entirely without dialogue and driven by an original score by Michał Urbaniak, the film unfolds through movement, visual transformation and rhythm rather than conventional narrative storytelling. Created entirely using traditional hand-painted animation techniques, EDEN represents a rare example of large-scale European auteur animation from the pre-digital era and is currently undergoing restoration as part of the broader EDEN Universe project.
An enchanting, award-winning film from Polish director Andrzej Fidyk about a mobile cinema run by the Bengali Mr Battu and his two assistants. But, in addition to bringing movies to appreciative Indian villagers, there's a more serious side to Battu's mission...
What are the reasons underlying the human drive toward self-destruction? What is the wellhead of motivation for a person who chooses a life involving perpetual struggle, self-harm and risking their health? Is the road of physical pain an escape route from other kinds of pain? And finally, what lies at the roots of the contemporary fascination with risk and aggression? "Arena" is a film project about contemporary games, arenas and gladiators.
Aleksander is an experimental docufiction film by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal shot on location of the 2011 narrative feature 'It Looks Pretty from a Distance'. The film follows the daily activities of an extended family living on a rural farm in Poland. Scenarios openly prompted by the filmmakers are set amongst documentation of the chores of gathering eggs, transporting oil, repairing equipment, butchering rabbits, and tilling the soiling. In the opening scene a man empties his pockets and removes his clothes staring exposed into the camera lens. In such visual intimacy the film follows this central character and his familial acquaintances through the daily rituals of life, industriousness, and preservation in remote Poland.
Nobody is as confident as they look!
A young, determined man, despite missing a left arm, strives to be a hero as a firefighter and father.
At the turn of January and February 1946, a Special Action Unit of the National Military Union, commanded by Lieutenant Rajs, pseudonym "Bury," pacified five villages, killing 80 people. The victims were exclusively Orthodox Belarusians. Among the dead were 28 carters, kidnapped on the outskirts of the Białowieża Forest to transport the Unit. After a few days, when the carters had fulfilled their task, they were shot and buried in a mass grave. It took 50 years before the families of the murdered could learn the fate of their loved ones. After half a century, on the initiative of a committee bringing together the families of the victims, an exhumation was carried out. The religious ceremonies accompanying the burial of the remains of the shot carters were attended not only by the families of the victims, but also by the local community, both Belarusians and Poles, who showed their solidarity with them.
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.
One man, a brave paratrooper, has a problem with a sore tooth, but is afraid to go to the dentist. He is brought to him by his several-year-old son. In the office, apart from the dentist, a plush toy awaits him - "Checkered dog", which the man remembers from his childhood. The doctor, by playing films with the participation of a dog on a VCR, means that the man, absorbed in watching his favorite childhood hero, does not pay attention to the run-offs and thus can extract the aching tooth.
In the attic of my family home, I found the autobiography of my legal-law Waclaw. Waclaw described a secret underground organization that he founded in Lódz during WWII. No one in the family knows about his mysterious life, his memories conflict with his image emerging from the pages of the book. So I am preparing a monodrama to introduce the unbelievable past of Waclaw's to the family. Unfortunately, everything is complicated by my poor memory and chronic diarrhea.
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.
Veronica and Andrew are a young couple who receive a beautiful old manor house in a deserted village known as Lesne Doły as an inheritance from the girl's uncle. People living there meet the loving couple and discourage them from living there. What the couple do not see is that the village hides a dark secret by the residents for 50 years. They soon encounter inexplicable events that make them regret their decision.
Inside Nostalgia, a modest shop devoted exclusively to vintage football shirts, Szymon and Miłosz handle more than garments - they pass on stories. Each piece moves through Szymon’s hands, adjusted with precision, matched to the person who will carry it next.
I cover my memories with music, cover them with explanations. But nothing will bring me back.
This short film from the series "Folk Rituals" depicts a tradition practiced in the Żywiec region associated with exchanging New Year’s greetings. Children recite these greetings in verse as they go from house to house carrying a twig known as a "podłaźniczka." The film features original texts selected from the archives of the Museum in Żywiec.
Lady Death is dying of boredom at work. After accidentally turning Grandfather George into a “Stuck Soul,” she must stay on Earth to help him finish his life mission. Living with his eccentric family — a spiritual dog, gothic teen Nikoleta, and fitness-obsessed Vita — she decides to explore human life and experience summer love. Instead of romance, she finds ghosting, sunburns, and beach days. But through it all, she discovers something greater: a deep love for living. She gives up immortality to live as a human — short, messy, but real.
The second animated feature film by Mariusz Wilczyński
This beautifully-shot documentary exposes the global cost and consequences of the destruction of nature. Life-giving rivers have been especially badly hit. Shot on location in Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Albania, and Poland, the film conveys a strong message about one of the greatest threats to human civilisation: the growing freshwater crisis.
Two girls meet outside of the hotel, both need help in a world of indifference.
The film enters into a dialogue with biographism as a method of interpreting art, while also showing that it is impossible to escape biographism entirely. Its creators recognize the value in the attitude of avant-garde artists, which lay in overcoming life’s adversities and pushing their imagination beyond what others consider an insurmountable horizon. In this film, nothing is as it actually happened—and this not-happening is intentional. By watching situations that never took place, we can draw conclusions about the things that did. The viewer steps into the role of a detective, because a crime has been committed in this story. Among the suspects are: Fanny Kaplan, who attempted to take Lenin’s life; Fritz Haber, the father of chemical warfare, and his wife, who took her own life in despair; as well as the cities Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Łódź.
A few days in the life of a tenement building in downtown Warsaw. Everyday scenes—some captured by a hidden camera—unfold simultaneously in the courtyard, in the tenants’ apartments, as well as in offices and businesses, including a lawmaker’s office, a beauty salon, and an escort agency. The lives of people from different generations and sometimes vastly different professions intertwine; the building at 32 Wilcza Street resembles a single organism, living by its own unique rhythm. Every day, events blend with memories, and tragic episodes with genuine comedy.
Nazi German officers decide to seize a house where the Pelka family of four live. The four members of the family are Otylia, Czeslaw and two little daughters called Terenia and Jania. From that moment on the life of the Pelka family starts hanging by a thread.
The film explores the work of doctors from the perspective of their professional ethics.
An attempt to adapt a story by contemporary Thai writer Rattawut Lapcharoensap to Polish realities. Two brothers, raised by a mother engulfed in depression, struggle to cope with life. The older teenage brother, Anek, tries to be a support and authority for the younger one, yet at the same time draws him into his own self-destructive world…
Karolina and Klaudia are trying to rebuild their own family relations, something that adults have failed to do for years. However, achieving this turns out to be much more difficult than they could have imagined.
Ludwik Flaszen, co-founder of the Laboratory Theatre, comes to Wrocław. He follows in the footsteps of Jerzy Grotowski and talks about his friendship and cooperation with this outstanding reformer of 20th century theatre. Ludwik Flaszen's stories are accompanied in the film by excerpts from recordings of performances, TV programmes and documentaries or hitherto unpublished archival photos, as well as by an extensively illustrated historical context.
The story of Father Kazimierz Strzepek, a Polish Catholic missionary working in harsh conditions among the Andese Indians in Bolivia.
Prominent heart surgeon Zbigniew Religa talks about his fears and hopes he had towards this operation, which was the first one successful heart transplant in Poland, made under his supervision. The doctor talks with great respect and affection about his patients and colleagues.
Portrait of a family emigrating to Sweden.
The report shows places connected with the life of the writer Stefan Żeromski: the cemetery where his parents are buried, the ruins of his family estate. Views from the village of Leszczyny in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains are interspersed with panels featuring quotations from "Puszcza jodłowa".
A documentary about posters created in the Polish People's Republic. The film poster, created by outstanding artists, was elevated to the status of art. The Polish School of Posters gained worldwide recognition and found its way into galleries and museums.
A tale of love in a world you can't see.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is falling. In the deserted mountain village, you can hear gunfire, explosions and see dark smoke. Almost all the inhabitants have already fled. Only Aram remains. He is trying to save his disabled mother, who does not want to leave. The Azerbaijani army is close, and the time for a decision is running out.