Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

A film version of a song about four paws that carry their owner, a friendly mutt, into the world.

"Zdjęcia operacji w szpitalach Paryża" (1898) is a Polish documentary film directed by Bolesław Matuszewski, which showcases surgical operations performed in Parisian hospitals.

Iranian woman are interviewed about their hopes for freedom in Iran after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini.

A crowd-sourcing documentary film, that consists of footage recorded by the characters of the movie themselves: young people born after 1989. We asked them to send us their own films. Out of tens of hours of footage we have chosen our seven main characters, young people striving for their dreams while living through their first loves, betrayals and breakups. These are the stories of Wojtek, Ela, Mikolaj, Martyna, Adam, Lukasz and Malgosia. They are all passion-driven people, who want to make their dreams come true, they seek for love and ways to express their affections and emotions, although they do not always know how to do it properly.

The story of the alleged possession of one of the students in a Polish school. It touches on themes of growing up, alienation, and feeling lost, as well as the difficult interpersonal relationships faced during a mental crisis. The search for answers and the sense of guilt begin to affect the characters' lives, confronting them with their own fears and demons. As the plot unfolds, the possessing forces gradually seep into the characters' everyday lives, and reality starts to crack under their weight.

An attempt to combine the aesthetics of film and pop-art comics in the form of 2D and 3D animation. The film is a variation on the theme of a black crime story. As befits this convention, there are cynical gangsters robbing gold and a tired hero - a tough cop. Here we have an armed robbery, an apparent friendship and a brutal betrayal, a car chase through the crowded streets of a big city and a shootout in the finale without a happy ending. The whole thing feels like a story straight out of a Chandler novel.

Rex, influenced by music, begins to sing. He can recognize a harmony of sounds. The dog decides to sing by the window of a neighbor who plays the piano beautifully. She is better than a boy whose violin is out of tune. However, playing with a stick is not so great when you are a singer.

The body of an unidentified man is discovered in the field. We follow the police officer Anna to determine the identity of the man.

The story of a pedophile and the nine-year-old victim. Crime and punishment. This obvious division persists until – after several years – the boy comes to the conclusion that justice has not been served and decides to take matters into his own hands. Then the roles reverse. The film tells the story of life before and after the tragedy; it shows who the heroes of this tragedy are today and what consequences they have faced for their actions. It's a film about a situation that changes entire life.

Documentary film popularizing the role and importance of the National Census. It shows the importance of the census as a task of only reporting but, above all, of providing data for planning the future conditions of the nation.

Southern man's faith is put to test when the unexpected occurs.

A game of visual associations between ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’; ‘freedom’ and ‘constraint’.

Stepan regularly adopts old dogs from the shelter, who spend their last days beside him and die peacefully. It's his own way of coming to terms with the end of his life. He dreams die peacefully in old age during the war in Ukraine. But peace is a privilege stolen by the young boy Gogo. What happens when two enemies of different ages but equally lonely meet at the cemetery at night?

Alternate version of history and the beginnings of the human race. The Great Spideress raises the first human to teach him the ways of the world. After reaching adulthood, Mother has a Grand gift for her Son.

An impression that bears traces of the filmmaker's subjective attitude towards the work of Gustav Klimt. The film uses, among others, the paintings "Turbulent Water," "Philosophy," and "Medicine."

3.1415 consists of three chapters: "body in politics," "body in art" and "body at war”. The movie explores different aspects of women's lives, raising questions about stereotypes, discrimination and inequality. This movie is an insightful and important exploration of women's roles in art and other spheres of life. Gender equality is a value of a democratic society. However, women in the world are still constantly subjected to all kinds of discrimination. Equality of rights and opportunities between men and women is enshrined in law in many countries - but stereotypes about the role of women in society are still common and hinder their development and realization.

The famous Anti-Election Technodemonstration was one of many rave parties organised at the Forts in Gdańsk as art projects by artists gathered in the collective Technical Culture Central Office (CUKT). The members of the CUKT used that site as their headquarters, a space of ongoing work with other people with a view to promoting a shared set of values. At the Forts, the artists combined rave with art through their own presence as well as installations, performances, discussions and collaborations with others, thus developing a community that they found so significant.

The story of the Belarusian artist Anastasia Rydlevskaya and her husband Aleksey, who fled their homeland due to political repression. They face the hardships of emigration, but, despite everything, they stay true to their love and keep their big dream.

Marian Marzyński goes behind the scenes with his camera, showing the making of television programs in the 1960s. He reveals production difficulties, mishaps, and complaints from dissatisfied viewers.

Combination animation and puppet animation.

An old lighthouse keeper raises two rats he fished out of the sea. Thanks to his attentive care, the animals feel great, becoming more and more voracious every day, eating everything around them, until they finally turn on their benefactor. The desperate lighthouse keeper sets fire to the lighthouse. The fire department arrives, but the firefighter also falls victim to the aggressive rodents. The insatiable rats set off in search of more victims.

In an idyllic atmosphere, surrounded by an environment that does not imply the slightest aggression, a sound appears that grows louder as time passes. It arouses fear in every creature, forcing them to flee. Suddenly, a great giant appears, wreaking destruction. However, it turns out that he is not the biggest. The hand that lifts him up suggests that there is someone bigger and more powerful.

A montage film produced on the occasion of the 4th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party, depicting the achievements of the Polish People's Republic.

A colorful story about the outstanding Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-69). The film documents the composer's life, work and artistic path in great detail. Shots were taken in Poland, Lithuania and France, using rich iconography and unique archival materials from the collections of TVP, WFD and the private archive of the composer's family. Wanda Bacewicz talks about her extremely talented sister. In addition, the film will include excerpts from anniversary concerts dedicated to the composer's memory, held recently at the PR Concert Studio in Warsaw.

A film about toy dolls that have dramatic adventures with a real bear.

Documentary on similarities between the soviet ideology with orthodox traditions.

Austrian officer Leon Anton falls for Estera, the rabbi’s daughter, but is sent to the front and dies, leaving her pregnant; Estera abandons their newborn and sails to America to become a singer. Sixteen years later she returns to search for her child, aided by Szamaj and Awrejml, enduring comic misadventures among families named Kohen, and ultimately discovers that the violinist’s fiancée Rachela is her long-lost daughter.

The third part of a trilogy of Silesian westerns by Jozef Klyk - an amateur, a great film lover who has been making amateur productions since 1967, the most famous of which are westerns. In them, Klyk combines western mythology with Silesian mythology. The film covers the period 1886-1939.

The first part of a trilogy of Silesian westerns by Jozef Klyk - an amateur, a great film lover who has been making amateur productions since 1967, the most famous of which are westerns. In them, Klyk combines western mythology with Silesian mythology. The film covers the period 1874-1881.

Pathé-Natan

A fragment of PKF from the May Day parade in 1953.

Halina is one of the last funeral singers in Podlasie. Her son Andrzej is a gravedigger. Thousands of people have crossed to the other side accompanied by them. He dug, she sang.

Józef Kuraś - "Ogień/Fire" - who came from a strong highland family, was born in 1915 and lived in Waksmund. In just four years (1943 - 1947) he became first the brightest and then the most sombre legend of the Tatra Mountains. From his hatred of the Nazis, who murdered his family, through his membership in the Home Army, his "love affair" with the People's Republicans and his "career" in the UB, he arrived at an attitude of extreme opposition to communist rule and, to the end of his admittedly short life (in 1947 he was only 32 years old), he fought with his loyal squad against the people's power.

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

Film presents an allegorical story of a society, where time is being measured by the movements of daily-use objects rotating around the planet: the Marlboro butt, bottle cap and sticking plaster. In the humorous fashion, the narrator describes the conventionality and arbitrariness of norms implemented on society.

The film is dedicated to the memory of American surrealist Paul Sharits. Sharits sent Robakowski a film score with a proposal to use it in a film production, but the outbreak of martial law prevented the idea from being realised. The film was not made until 2004. The film was created as a result of a very rigorous, constructivist formal procedure, subordinating specific visual values to the melodic line of the musical piece. During the screening, as the notes of the composition are played, corresponding colours appear on the screen, eight colours that correspond to the notes of Fryderyk Chopin's Mazurka Op. 68 No. 4. The vibration of the changing colours and the radiance of the light create a coherent whole with the composer's nostalgic piece. The colourful fields pulsating to the rhythm of the music evoke, on the one hand, the American's structural cinema and, on the other, show the almost vital energy of colour.

Redyk is a ceremonial exit of shepherds with sheep flocks to the mountains. The sheep graze there. The Great Redyk is a post-war propaganda film with exceptional shots awarded in Cannes.

Another film about a sports discipline that removes the barrier between the spectator and the participants of the competition. The scenes of ski jumps have gone down in the history of cinema. All of them were made by Adam Krzysztofi-ak, an Olympic Winner.

Zofia, accompanied by her friend Ewa, goes to a special centre by the seaside far from civilization to clear her mind and body.

Waves wash ashore different objects, which gradually become associated with Roman Polanski's "Two Men and a Wardrobe".

The documentary presents the life of teenage Karolina and her one-year-old son.

The film is based on the story of the Russian writer Yuri Trifonov, entitled "Obmen".

The film tells the story of the conflict between father and son. The father's stay in the hospital and awaiting the result of the operation provoke a retrospection of scenes from his family life. They allow us to trace the causes of the growing misunderstandings in which neither one nor the other was right.