Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

Two stray dogs constantly accompany a busy music professor who tries to get rid of the quadrupeds.

The story takes place in the contemporary Polish provinces. Zenon Okrzasa finds a wallet with 10,000 zlotys in the forest, but without bland documents. He takes his discovery to the nearest police station. When information about his glorious deed appears in the local press and television; Zenon Okrzasa is considered by the inhabitants of his town to be a complete idiot and even a dangerous and anti-social individual. More misfortunes begin to fall on his head.

STOP MOTION is a lego-made short film made by 3 people. Heavily inspired by the classic ‘Magic Portal’ it presents a vague and mysterious journey

A humoristic adaptation of a popular medieval theme "dance of death". A patchwork of symbols illustrates human passing. Following a three-legged character we discover a murky world of the deceased. Seemingly separate elements turn out to be part of a perfectly synchronized organism.

A warning against the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes on the lungs of a smoker. A parody of a health education film made in Antonisz's non-camera animation technique.

Inspired by two stories by Gregory Burnham and Edward Lowe, this poetic and experimental essay film is a new look at the ill-fated relationship and human book with life and numbers.

A chance meeting of a young girl causes a lot of trouble for the calm engineer.

19-year-old Ewa comes to town to talk to her brother Krzysztof. The conversation is to concern the illness of the father whom Ewa is looking after. However, he does not find Krzysztof at home. Instead, there are two of his colleagues.

Two beasts attacked and killed a pig. They act innocent, but the past cannot be forgotten.

Biographical film about Kazimierz Przer-Tetmajer, a leading figure in Polish modernism. A poet that lived 75 years, the last thirty suffering from a progressive mental illness resulting from syphilis infection.

The wife of a wealthy peasant cheats on him with a resident of a nearby town. The husband decides to bring the lovers to justice.

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?

Biography of the writer of the Young Poland period, Władysław Orkan. During his stay in Switzerland, the author admires the richness, order and cleanliness of Alpine towns. The huge gap between what he sees and his hometown Poręba is additionally emphasized by the words of his friend, Stanisław, Amelia's son, staying with him. Even a few successive generations are not enough to come close to a similar prosperity. After the writer returns to his country, the poverty of the Polish countryside is even more painful. Władysław has an idea for a novel and shares it with his fiancée, Marta.

The first Polish color film. A reportage from the Alps, delighting with the splendidly rendered colors of the beautiful mountain landscapes.

In the harsh world of a lonely person, a bird appears outside the window. The window turns out to be a shop window, and the bird - a dream that can be bought. The titular bird symbolizes the dream of freedom of the protagonist, who is a slave of her own material limitations. The film was realized in the cut-out technique, in grayscale, with dominant geometric shapes with acute vertices, in the style of expressionist paintings.

Documentary showing the social moods related to the construction of a nuclear power plant on Lake Kopań, near Darłowo. The documentary presents the position of members of the Ecological Civic Committee "Vigil" against the initiative and the voices of regional authorities, seeing the construction as an opportunity to develop the community.

A censor's tale about the official and unwritten rules of censorship in the People's Republic of Poland accompanied by shots and archival photographs. Their selection and presentation reveal the ironic attitude of the authors towards the protagonist's statements. The film was made in the year of the liquidation of the Main Office of Press, Publication and Audience Control.

A unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.

The story of Witold Pilecki, soldier of the Home Army and the anti-communist underground, prisoner and organizer of the resistance movement in Auschwitz, sentenced to death in 1948. The starting point is the documentary record of the extraordinary review of the trial of Pilecki and his fellow prisoners in 1990.

In the final moments of preparations for a vernissage, two caretakers of an avant-garde museum are forced to bring the troublesome author of the exhibition to order. The artist's incomprehensible behavior, which seems to be some kind of artistic performance, puts their intellectual abilities to the test as the clock is ticking down.

In A Straight Story, a train journey between Poznań and Lublin, in Poland, becomes an intimate and cinematic photo-filmic essay on memory.

Typical situation on the subway. Plasticine grotesque. Social satire.

An album of moving illustrations showing the history of communism, from the rise of the first trade unions in the 1820s to the present day celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the October Revolution in the Eastern Bloc.

The Blue One and the Yellow One vie for the attention of the Orange One. The Yellow One calls to the creator of the film because he is really annoyed. It seems that the introduction of the Red One will solve the problem. But it turns out that it is not a good solution.

Athletes wearing shooting targets on their chests hurdle. It is a dual sport discipline, people are divided into prey and predators.

The Krakow climbing scene has always been full of personalities from the edge of science, culture and art. For many, sport was a window to the world. The invisible force that draws you into sport is like a drug. Sometimes it doesn't seem to make any sense, but without it everything else loses its meaning as well. Whether you represent the country internationally, climb rocks, or do it just to push your boundaries – it sets the rhythm of your life.

The expression of the fascination of a problem of the ANGLES existance as of its kind intuitive geometry. The imaginary "MODEL" became the main subject of my artistic activity since many years. I am wondering, how the geometry, whose intentions are only practical purposes, can exist in art. I decided to create ANGLES as the energetic, cultural, sign in a form of a personal fetish, in order to make this problem important. I have a feeling, that having three angles at disposal, I will be able to put them, in any way, on the so called REALITY, but also on my biological motivity. Thanks to this operation, I want to cause a kind of the energetic tension. This TENSION should be an essence of this absurd work, i.e. the way of taking on its own articulation to the selfdependent existing matter.

Vitali has always wanted to be a priest. There is only one thing left to do: according to the rules of the Eastern Orthodox Church, he needs to find a wife. Waiting for the change to come, he rents a flat with a friend from the seminary. They turn the two tiny rooms filled with books and icons into their own world, living beyond time and mundane rules. Years go by and Vitali’s family in Belarus is still waiting for the return of the priest.

Jagiello and his squire meet with representatives of the Teutonic army. Both sides do not want conflict and intend to resolve their dispute peacefully, but the language barrier is an obstacle for them.

This movie shows Biebrza Valley's wildlife during the four seasons of the year. Spectacular wildlife images, exceptional sounds of nature and specially composed music make this poetic story about the lives of rare European animals come to life. Is Biebrza the European Amazon river?

Animals locked up in a flat with the decomposing corpse of their owner try to survive. In this difficult situation one of the dogs finds out that its love for its owner is stronger than animal instinct.

A basketball champion is fighting his worst enemy, himself. MVP is a short film about overcoming our weaknesses and fighting against the barriers we normally face.

The script and the background of the film are inspired by the current situation of LGBTQ+ community in Poland. This is a story about two young men, their mutual love and the difficulties it brings. But first of all it is a story about art, how it is influences the people we love, and how through it we can pass on the love that surrounds us.

The first feature length documentary film about Pitcairn Island. Director and DOP spent record amount of time on the island (26 days) which helped them to recognize conflicts and complicated relations between Islanders.

A film that portrays the Kafkaesque struggle of the protagonist, a female to male transsexual, as he tries to obtain identity documents that would allow him to normally function in Polish society.

An elderly Polish-American man, in the final stage of his life, experiences a reversion to the past. As his memories evaporate, he contends with being haunted by what he believes are ghosts. Haunted by the spectre of his ethnic identity, he receives a message from a special visitor.

A glance into the mirror encourages a young woman to gradually discover her carnality.

For centuries, the man was accompanied by anxiety about the new Millennium. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 – “The end of the world” is approaching. Catastrophe, uncertainty and the thickening...

The story of a doctor who is about to retire.

"Tautological Cinema" is a cycle of short films exploring linguistic and cinematic structures

A shocking account of a man who was prisoner No. 1327 for four and a half years. Kazimierz Smoleñ - after World War II, an employee and long-time director of the State Museum in Auschwitz. The world's highest authority on Nazi concentration camp issues - a crown witness in the trials of Nazi torturers.

Parodist deformation of the famous painting by Manet Luncheon on the Grass.

Among the stories about the family, the values embraced by Berbeka and the most important expeditions, there is one related to the winter expedition to Broad Peak. On 5th March 2013, the protagonist reached the summit, making his dream come true, but died on his way down to the base.

In post-war Poland, Father Wladyslaw Gurgacz served the Fatherland. Several years later, he was sentenced to death for his actions.

A humorous documentary about the uncomfortable growing up of students at the University of Tokyo, who spend most of the day overwhelmed with their studies, struggling with the pronunciation of digraphs or rehearsing a performance of Faust in Polish. What is it like to get to know a country that is geographically and culturally so remote only through textbooks? In the second year, a handful of students finally travel to Poland at their own expense. Their enthusiasm encounters both different customs and good-natured locals trying to explain why they consider kebab their national dish. What the students have been dutifully reading at home for the past year takes on unexpected dimensions at sunset over the Vistula.

A classical Polish documentary, while at the same time trying to summarize the period 1989-1999 - politically, socially and economically. Kazimierz Karabasz interviews two generations: young people finishing high school and the older, retiring generation. They are all passengers of the train, which takes on a symbolic dimension here. At first we listen to their statements, among other peers, then look at them closely. In the background are lines by Tadeusz Rozewicz about the end of one era and the beginning of the next. In the statements of people retiring abound concerns about the financial situation, restoration of pensions. Tired of work, without prospects for a peaceful future, they recall with fondness the past. Young people are afraid of the future, talk about their perspectives and aspirations. Passengers on the train sitting next to each other often in silence.

Basia is five years old and lives in the city with her parents, her brother and a stuffed friend. Sometimes, like any child her age, she faces big problems and does so with intelligence, curiosity and a particular sense of humor.

This study, full of black humour, was made by a Łódź Film School student and presents a documentary portrait of a Slovak village – a dying world revived largely by funerals.

Prosaic material - threads and buttons - is used to present the game of positional systems, the motion of matter, the actions of antagonistic forces.

Adventures of a small dachshund.

Experimental animated short about a man returning by train.