Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

Waldemar is on the threshold of adulthood without any specific plans. Despite pressure from his family, he works with photography.

Michał Łoś and Urban Budny set off to rescue miners trapped underground.

A man appearing in the finale of "The Big Game" learns about the death of his friend during the war.

A teenager suffering from scoliosis goes to the hospital in Konstancin.

Marta proposes to a writer experiencing a creative crisis to live in a house that she rents to his current lover.

Michał's father resigns from his responsible position and withdraws from his active professional life. This exacerbates family conflicts and involves adults. Meanwhile, the 10-year-old is going through one of the most important moments in his life.

A Jewish boy in the ghetto tries to get an extra portion of food by using the canteen card belonging to his deceased father.

PURE is like a travel into the unknown. Like a dream or an oneiric story coming from within, ready to be told.

Magda breaks up with Michał, the father of her child, and returns to Poznań. There she meets the composer Adam, but her previous partner reappears in her life.

After finishing serving in the military, Tadeusz starts working in a tailor shop. The man does not stop dreaming about gliding.

After graduation, a young couple settle down in a small town. Initially, Adam is successful and Ania has professional difficulties, but soon the roles are reversed.

A story about three boys trying to pick up girls in a pub.

A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town.

Colonel of the Citizens' Militia Stefko, after thirty years of absence, arrives in the town which was his place of work right after World War II.

This film belongs to a group of works that constitute manifestations of Robakowski’s engaged attitude towards social reality. Here, his interests focus on the rhythm of the city, the dynamics of passing cars, recorded with a fast-panning camera set at a single point. The video recording is accompanied by Robakowski’s voice, commenting off-screen, with constantly varying intonation and speed of uttering words, on what is happening in the street. The energy of the urban landscape is contrasted with the calmness of the space in which the camera is placed, which introduces a tension that reflects the author’s emotional state.

The Militia officer single handedly tries to catch Józef Rybicki, who escaped from prison.

This surreal animation connects the world of flying machines with the kingdom of flora and fauna. Engrossed in the fight, a pilot loses his target and his plane crashes into the crown of a tree. What seems to be a tragic end opens a new stage in history. In the place of the accident, a new life is formed.

A French woman in Poland visits the concentration camp where her ex-husband died.

Witnesses about the mine fire will testify before the disciplinary commission. A TV reporter reporting the events is conducting his own investigation at the same time.

A promising swimmer who has had his leg amputated is trying to get back into the sport.

A young journalist tries to explain the tragic consequences of a tanker fire.

Complicated relationship between mother and daughter. An elderly woman, disappointed in her dreams of a career as a pianist, ruthlessly dominates her daughter. Her daughter decides to rebel.

This film is based on Hasek's unfinished novel about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who pretends to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I.

How easy it is to lose one's head? A white head rolls slowly towards the center of a black screen. One event triggers an avalanche of others.

Marta leaves the orphanage and goes to her hometown. The flat left by the girl's parents is occupied by the girl's relatives.

A lonely writer meets the woman of his dreams, but she marries another.

An inhabitant of an old tenement house lives with hope for her husband's return from the war, which is confirmed by parcels and letters sent to her.

Mr. B. is an old, ailing Jew who did not accept the changes. One day he sees Christ coming to Warsaw on a donkey. He is arrested. Mr. B. tells the doctor about it. He got bitter because nobody believed his words.

A young psychologist tries to help Małgorzata who is experiencing marital problems. He notices a key ring by the woman's key, which looks like a figurine that died from the house of his murdered aunt years ago.

The film shows Poland regaining independence in 1918 and the formation of the first government of the Republic of Poland.

The film is about three old buddies living in one of Poznań's forgotten apartment blocks. Darek - philosophy student, Rogalo - petrol station employee and Bubu Oxford - drug dealer. They have one goal in common: they want to go abroad to work. The action of the film begins when the student gets a visa to the USA. He has a job there with his uncle. The situation becomes more complicated when a policeman who has an eye on the dealer starts blackmailing Darek - demanding that Bubu be poured in in exchange for returning his passport and permission to leave.

A man gets on the train. Things that he sees cause him to have erotic and cruel associations with the sensuality of women and the industrial slaughter of animals. This train to self-annihilation goes only one way, there is no return.

The love of Leopold and Sabina is in crisis when the man meets the daughter of his former partner.

It is a parable about the inhabitants of Przechwałków. They could not come to terms with who was doing the most important work. Their quarrels shattered the unity in the city, which led to a threat.

A portrayal of a dog living among people. Its life is ruled by the rhythm of the human day, but at night, when the lights in the neighborhood go down, the forest brims with sounds...

The main character of the film is a respected zombie hunter who, with a rifle on his back, traverses the ruins left over from the old world in search of new orders.

An anonymous couple comes to the maternity ward. The woman is immobilized in the bed, the man is in the waiting room. Doctors and nurses decide to have a drunken party. A mysterious guest will help Benio come into the world. An animated joke by Marek Serafinski, a creator and producer of animated films, graphic artist and content creator. From the very beginning, the artist used a combined technique, manipulating shots and graphics. Chronicle pictures of life of the 1980s and 1990s were diversified by including fantastic characters and phenomena. "The Birth" is a grotesque view of the reality of hospital births, the separation of fathers, the isolation of women, and alcohol consumption during working hours.

Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.

The heroine of Kazimierz Karabasz's film is Maria Kolano, a first-year student at the Warsaw Agricultural University, who returns to her hometown of Żabno during the summer vacations to help her parents with their fieldwork. The documentary filmmaker equips Maria with a camera.

A documentary tackling the problem of air pollution in Walbrzych. The film shows the effects of excessive and ill-considered industrialization of the region: the sky covered with smoke, mining waste heaps piling up, burnt buildings, and, above all, the residents exposed to smog from an early age.

The documentary with commentary by Tadeusz Różewicz shows the everyday life of children a few years after the war and juxtaposes it with the children's experience of the "black seasons" - the loneliness, terror, hunger and misery of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Documentary film about Polish airmen who fought in the British Air Force during World War II. The narrative frame of the documentary consists of excerpts from a mass in one of the churches in London in honour of the airmen. The middle part of the film is a series of interviews with veterans.

A journey through the world illustrating the problems faced by modern man - the effects of his own activity.

"Skull" is a stop motion animation combining object and plasticine animation. Inspired by the process of reconstructing the face of people who died centuries ago. It's an expression of creation, the pain of being, the cycle of life and death. What would the restored human say?

The animation was created as an annex to the diploma thesis at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, majoring in scenography.

An erotic episode about farming in the world of robots. Cuttings do not want to undergo mechanical stimulation. A space inspector is the only one who can change their opinion.

The comic book culture in Poland, shown through the prism of an iconic store in Warsaw which brings together graphic novel enthusiasts. Kuba and his father run the oldest comic shop in Poland - "Centrum Komiksu" - that has long been recognized as a legendary address. Through their eyes, we invite you to experience stories about loyal customers, hardships of independent publishing and problems faced by comic book creators themselves.

A film miniature to classical music inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Praise for the joy of life, synchronously set to the vocalization of Mozart's piece.

A picture of a metaphorical relationship between a huge cauldron and its guardian - the stoker called Guzla, who puts fuel into the giant furnace. The coexistence of two forms: technical and organic leads to the interpenetration of worlds.

Beautiful ships sail towards each other across the blue ocean. The admiral observes them with a spyglass. Actually, all the things take place in his mind.

A short story about struggling with lack, emptiness, loneliness.

The central characters of the film are randomly selected residents of a capital city in a country that lies at the heart of Europe. Do they fear the same thing as you do? Look them in the eye. Listen.

"Dismay" is a magical and brutal story set in a Masurian village, about the extraordinary bond between a father and an eight-year-old daughter, and about the terrible consequences of trying to take away a hypersensitive girl from an alcohol-addicted musician. Little Ula does not know that at her First Communion party, instead of the long-awaited mother who has left her father, a curator from the social welfare centre will appear, ready to take her to an orphanage at once. However, the girl will never allow anyone to take back what she has managed to save after her mother left. Together with her father, a local organist, against all odds, she believes her mother will come back and she is still waiting for that moment. The joyful, May day of the First Holy Communion will turn into a nightmarish triumph of the wild world of Masurian nature, which is little Ula’s only ally.