Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

ALL MATEUSZ'S WOMEN is a story of a gallant conqueror of hearts, a carpenter - Mateusz Klos. His random death doesn't stop anything, on the contrary, it is the beginning of an avalanche of events that subvert upside down life of a small, quiet and peaceful town. In a witty, original and full of charm way the film deals with a difficult issue of death

A short documentary from Poland about a model casting in the Sixties.

Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Nothing special had happened on that day in the People’s Republic of Poland. The weather forecast predicted moderate clouds. Over 1600 citizens were born and about 600 died. A day like every day… Police reports, control protocols, complaints, letters from the army and to the prison and also to the newspaper or radio programme Fala 56, a poem by Father Twardowski taken off by censors; and all this under the date of 27 September 1962.

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.

A documentary material about the work of jet aircraft test pilots.

November 1982, Martial Law. The film tells the story of conscripts drafted into the army who, reluctant toward the communist authorities, often refused to carry out orders.

A short propaganda film depicting the history of the city of Łódź and its perspectives for the future.

The movie Gaduły was made by students from V LO in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Their inspiration was the movie Talking Heads by the one and only Krzysztof Kieślowski. They asked other students and teachers three simple questions. What were their responses?

I cover my memories with music, cover them with explanations. But nothing will bring me back.

Wojciech Plewiński, an eminent photographer, is preparing an exhibition by traveling in the footsteps of his own work. He is accompanied by his wife Anna, son Maciek, and curator Katarzyna.

This short black-and-white film is a record of events that took place after 10 April 2010, one of the most important dates in modern Polish history.

While talking on the phone with a family member, a hotel worker realized why he had cut his family off.

In a prestigous celebrity high school, a group of lonely souls search for love. But will everybody get a happy ending?

The next installment of the Miki Mol's biography.

As an exercise in political influence, film schools in the socialist Eastern bloc opened their doors to students from the Global South. While dozens of films from that period remain in the Lodz Film School archives, the offspring of those visitors and their Polish partners are more visible, and now claim the acknowledgment denied to the images, in a racist Europe.

The labour of film-making is reflexively spliced into a portrait of the steelworks where the filmmakers work.

A father goes on holiday with his son and two of his friends, during which time they make an amateur horror film together. As the years pass, they continue to shoot scenes for their “handcrafted,” carefree, imaginative horror project, with even more passion, dutiful consistency, and unwavering commitment: the documentary chronicles a decade of this beautiful adventure, as Maciej and the kids become a group of people who grow up… and yet somehow still manage to grow younger together.

Destined for the rail transport workers as an audiovisual help for trainings, the film deals with irregularity of passenger trains shuttling. It presents the causes of actual train delays resulting from neglects, lack of proper training and qualifications as well as bad work organization. The film presents staged events, which served as examples of incorrect actions leading to train delays.

Two elderly sisters, Bozenna and Zofia, live next to each other in two flats in the housing block. There are two things that divide them: the wall and completely different political views.

A psychiatrist retreats to a remote house with his wife and her mentally disabled brother to finish a book on the therapeutic use of the psychodelic compound DMT. But the stillness of the countryside soon gives way to disturbing phenomena, as the boundary between dream and reality begins to dissolve.