Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

The first Polish-produced educational documentary dealing with the story of Oskar Schindler’s Factory.

On a lush island long cut off from the world, several endogenous species have developed, including the surprising “Homo lesbomo”.

Together is a biting political critique disguised as playful animation

A witty, wicked little film that stages the house-moving of a family from a traditional countryside cottage to a typical communist apartment building. The socialist regime’s utopian project is simultaneously celebrated and satirized.

A short portrait of an elderly married couple and their rural farmstead. The film begins with a narrative framework: a meeting of a group of men who, as we may assume, are scriptwriters talking about the shape of the following takes.

O is very curious and busy discovering the world.

Up is a short, tense, parable-like story about determination, persistence, and the thin line between striving for a goal and losing yourself in the process. Viewers are drawn into a surreal world where the main character climbs winding concrete stairs that seem to stretch on forever. These endless steps become a metaphor for life’s journey, full of struggle and sacrifice. The climb is long and tiring, and each step takes more effort than the last. It feels as if the hero is fighting not just his own fatigue and doubts, but something deeper. What really is the goal he’s chasing? And will his efforts bring the reward he seeks?

Poznań through the eyes of its residents.

It is a story about love – the love between two women, but also love for organisation, for people, and for nature, and about what happens when one is forced to choose between them.

"Julian Józef Antonisz's 'Polish Non-Camera Chronicle No. 6' was honored at the 30th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (1984) with the Grand Prize and the FIPRESCI Award. On this occasion, the film's director participated in a tour of cities in the Federal Republic of Germany, which he documented in a non-camera reportage. As this was his first official festival trip, his observations are relatively spontaneous," the narrator states at the beginning.

A short film based on the painting depicting a Ukrainian girl who fled to Poland during Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Experimental short movie shot during Christmas and New Year's Eve.

The film shows members of the Florczak family at work in their workshop.

A lighthearted story and song about two friends: Jam and Jam Spread. Jam Spread tells Jam about his former great love for Jam, which left him with nothing but... mold.

By the river, a couple tries to save a love that slips through their fingers. In the silence between words, they discover they might be complete strangers to each other.

Six egoists, one store. Central-Mart is a dark comedy where selfish, cunning, and ignorant characters spiral into absurdity. Their twisted actions entangle them in a grotesque web of events, leading inevitably to catastrophe.

The film is a practical and workshop record of the camera's capabilities in exploring and recording space.

A series of film experiments carried out by visual artists during the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg in 1973.

The protagonist climbs the steps of a tower, loudly counting each step. The end of his climb also marks the end of the film.

The story of a little, yellow creature that gets lost in the forest and in its own mind.

A portrait of the famous actor Roman Kłosowski.

Here, the line serves the purpose of manifesting the artists marked pursuit in the 1970s to “brighten various structures of discipline”.

An experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks along the white line painted on the football pitch.

The film's task is to encourage children to speak freely about their parents' jobs.

Some conversations are more important than words. Two girls, one meeting over coffee and a game that can be more than fun. They start a sentence with ‘I’d rather…’, but it’s the smiles, glances and unspoken gestures that really tell their story.