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The protagonist of the film is an old man who is hit by several cars while trying to cross a dangerous street. He hardly gets out of it alive, but in a moment he rubs against death again, and more than once.
During the land reform, the priest encourages the peasants to accept the land, which puts himself at risk for forest gangs.
Men returning from the field face an obstacle - a road full of cars. One of the peasants, Szymon, begins to remember the times of his youth.
Animated characters from the film prepared by Joanna's father come to life and run away to the streets of Bielsko-Biała.
The newly appointed parish priest of Giemza goes to the presbytery in the village of Ociesęki. On the way, it stops in front of Jan Kolasa's house. Invited to a richly set table, Giemza enjoys the hospitality. When he falls asleep tired, Kolasa changes into his cassock and goes to the rectory. The next day, Kolasa gives a general sermon announcing the distribution of church land to the poor, which causes a general stir.
Single retirees Karol and Felicja are getting married. She is a type of a complex old maid. The war took his wife and children from him, but nevertheless he did not lose his serenity. He looks after his paralyzed neighbor. Soon she commits suicide. Under the influence of this event, the bitter Felicja changes.
On January 27, 1952, the draft Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland was announced. The history of over a hundred years of popular struggle is illustrated by paintings, from Artur Grottger to contemporary artists of socialist realism.
A man is a guest of the EDEN Hotel. He can enjoy its luxuries with no limits, except for one room. The room becomes the most interesting place for the man. The animators illustrate the biblical story with a beautiful cutout and a philosophical commentary. The film was made in the cut-out technique. Its background is based on the style of old engravings and contemporary graphics.
A historical documentary about Antoni Heda, pseud. Szary (Grey), commander of ZWZ (Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army) units and an anti-communist underground activist. The filmmakers follow the hero's footsteps, visiting places he was associated with. The behind-the-scenes narration is supplemented with statements by Szary and his comrades.
Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death.
Graphic afterimages of photos documenting the Holocaust: the architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau, bodies thrown on wires, skeletons of those who died of hunger, close-ups of the faces of people who got off the train. Plastic forming turns them into abstract stains. The film begins with an inscription carved in the wall. It says ‘Later definitely there will be no camps, there will be no states, people will not kill themselves’. It explains the intent of the title. Modern people live in too much of a rush to remember this.
In A Straight Story, a train journey between Poznań and Lublin, in Poland, becomes an intimate and cinematic photo-filmic essay on memory.
A day in the life of children attending the first year of music school.
The enchanted town hides many attractions at night, but not all of them are here to amuse the guests. So beware because once you plunge into madness, there will be no going back.
Nikesh is 13 years old and came to Poland with his parents, Shiv and Shushila, a few years ago in search of work and a better life. Nikesh is already building his life in Warsaw – here, he has friends and lives like a young European. His dad wants to raise his son as a Nepalese and does everything he can to provide for the family. As a result, Shiv’s life comes down to working several jobs and constant confrontations with his son. Shiv is torn between his wife, who cannot imagine growing old in Poland, and his son, who cannot imagine growing up in Nepal.
At the end of 2019, Charles Lloyd, one of the icons of contemporary jazz, gave a warmly received concert at the Pierre Boulez Saal concert hall in Berlin. The next two performances were scheduled for December 2020, but the pandemic forced the artist to change his plans. Neither the musician nor the organizers, however, wanted to leave jazz fans empty-handed.
People wearing masks covering their nose and mouth sit at the table. Their clothes, however, suggest the nineteenth century in the American countryside, and not a time of pandemic chaos. Everyday work is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of an inquisitive spirit. Stop-motion animation with actors.
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.
A board with moving squares shows a picture of a locomotive in a chaotic manner. It turns out that the squares fit together outside the frame. The animated short film is a praise of unconventional thinking.
Weronka is living a happy and peaceful life until she learns that her father is ill. The world around fights for her attention, and the reality slips out of control. Playing with friends, her son Pietrek experiences something that makes him believe he can heal. Is it possible that the boy influences his grandfather’s health?
My project shows an attempt to cope with everyday existence and give it meaning. In the chaos of events, thoughts, issues, routine and everyday rituals become a safe haven that protects us from asking ourselves questions about meaning, etc. Treatments around the body, obsession with beauty and youth, excessive health care give us the illusion of controlling time and body. Bursting, splitting, striking out, alienating is not the result of a symptom, a disease manifestation of its existence. This is just because there is a crack, split, alienating fission in human nature.
Angels descend from heaven in order to protect their charges. When the day is over, they return to heaven, where they are guarded by a heavenly shepherd, just like sheep.
An animated poetic etude with dry pastels. Empty beaches, peace, the sound of waves and contact with nature - time for reflection and silence.
There is a national festival, ‘In the Land of Dumplings’, in Bychawa. This peculiar event and a spectacular photograph of a NASA astronaut have a common denominator – a small commune in the region of Lublin. The view is beautiful from afar, but what do little homelands look like from up close?
The film devoted to Tadeusz Borowski's work has the form of a multi-part suite consisting of very short episodes, in which the fragments and poems read by Borowski are accompanied by photographs from the Auschwitz camp, reproductions of Andrzej Wróblewski's paintings, film archival and contemporary photographs. He presents Borowski's work in an extremely emotional way in the context of the artist's stay in the concentration camp, showing the influence of this experience on Borowski's writing and on the vision of the fate of his generation.
Absurd adventures of three people inhabiting small town by the sea.
Short documentary about the current state of living of forgotten director, Janusz Nasfeter.
Krzysztof Suchowierski, young man from Poland (live in England) is amazing traveller. Krzysztof cycled 3,500 km of Siberia in the winter. His main motivation was to visit the places where Polish exiles prisoners were sent by Soviet Regime, but not only, also Russians, Germans, and many others. His lonely trip to Kolyma (Russia) had a similar message.
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.
In the Republic of Tuva, the main symbol of the culture of the people is throat singing ("khoomei"). But the Tuvan tradition says that only a man is allowed to perform khoomei, women are forbidden to do so. Those who violate the rule predict serious problems in their personal lives. Despite the ban, several women in Tuva still sing...
Illumination is a phenomenon of sudden awareness of something. A pleasant experience constituting one of the important motivators of creativity. Usually it is preceded by a long chain of associations. The film presents visualizations of thought processes, random events and creative provocations that can lead to the development of a phenomenon called an illumination.
An adaptation of a Polish folk tale. Once upon a time there was a peasant. He was very poor, but he loved to work hard. This helped the peasant to get magic gifts - soon he had a tablecloth, a wand, and a wonderful mill. So hard work and perseverance brought happy prosperity to the poor man's home.
One night the little toy people, animals and birds came off the shelves and started having a friendly fun time in their toy town.
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.
People who suffer from depression are usually invisible. Society believes that this disease affects the mentally weak, spoiled by life, self-centered and unable to "pull themselves together". When someone around us suffers, we think it will pass because they are simply in a bad mood. Depression does not go away by itself, and the bad mood continues and lasts, often for months or years. How much is human endurance? The film presents 4 stories of the struggle with this extremely serious disease, in which they are repeatedly inscribed: exclusions, helplessness of doctors or suicide attempts.
This film takes the audience to the centre for the blind in Laski. We try to get to know the reality of blind children - full of sounds, smells and carefully studied shapes. Carefully, with their fingers, they check the physiognomy of living animals and then recreate them from clay. Thanks to the aesthetics of the film, seemingly simple activities performed by the wards of the establishment gain a deeper, symbolic dimension.
A group of deaf-mute students sing mass at a church in Warsaw. Accompanied by a dolorous organ they express themselves in a hitherto impossible way. The students cannot hear themselves or one another, but music is music. Particularly in God’s ears.
Following the historically smoggy Polish winter of 2016/2017, a Warsaw father of an asthmatic son searches for answers about why air pollution continues to be a major problem in Poland - and why solving the problem is easier said than done.
Welcome to the set of "The Wolf And The Sheep". The role of the Wolf is played by a woman, the role of the Sheep is played by a man who is - gay. These characters, ambiguous in various ways, are forced into an unambiguous film form (symbolising social conventions). Horror is mixed with slapstick comedy and the protagonists struggle like animals in a black-and-white tape cage.
A glance into the mirror encourages a young woman to gradually discover her carnality.
In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when 9‑year‑old Tom and his friends play hide‑and‑seek or attack each other with a drone. Then there are moments when you have to hide and you only get 15 seconds. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, lose a life if you’re too slow. The film is a documentary observation of life in closed‑off settlements located in a military zone less than 5 kilometres from the Gaza strip.
The story of a doctor who is about to retire.
This wonderful Polish non-narrative animation takes as its theme the constriction and confinement in which we often find ourselves. Viewers will be able to consider when barriers and borders are and are not necessary.
A film by Ewa Partum
At the edge of town, we can reach places we don't normally visit. At the edge of town lies a forest. To reach its source, we must pass through its darkest recesses.
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.
Documentary about post-communist Poland.
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.