Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

The film focuses on the activities of a theater group founded in 1976, currently known as the Center for Theater Practice – Gardzienice Theater Association. Under the direction of Włodzimierz Staniewski, the group bases its artistic productions on folk culture traditions, and its audience and participants are rural residents. The authors of the film show the forms of the group's work – training sessions, "processions," performances, the group members' contacts with the village at so-called gatherings, and the reception of their activities among the rural population.

In November 2003, the two artists took part in a traditional pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Mixing with the devout, the two artists visit and film landmark sites Christians the world over dream of seeing.

Documentary about preparations of Krystian Lupa's play based on Kafka's “The Trial”.

Film SEVERANCES and OPPOSITIONS by Izabela Nykiel directly refers to the essay "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf. The protagonist of the film is a young person who explores the space she inhabits by interacting with furniture and everyday objects. She seeks a way to break out of schematic socio-cultural behavior and identity liberation.

The film draws public attention to the humanitarian crisis against refugees and shows that support is needed regardless of citizenship, sexual orientation, or nationality. The relevance of the project lies in the fact that nowadays people outside Ukraine often face discrimination and neglect, despite the fact that they are in the same difficult circumstances because of the war, and people because of their sexual orientation fall into an additional zone of risk due to homophobia and transphobia.

When Daria learns that her grandmother will die, she begins to pray to the Holy Tree.

A blind pianist strives for his dream to explore the world, while struggling with everyday life. An opportunity for him to travel gets complicated when the pandemic begins.

A jazz-infused introduction into the milieu and musical environment of Andrzej Kurylewicz’s Piwnica Artystyczna club. With appearances by artists Wanda Warska, Włodzimierz Nahorny, Barbara Brylska, Stanisław Tym and Jean Chavrain – a representative of the Estates General of the French Cinema.

A desperate man hangs himself on a hook from a chandelier. The entire segment collapses under his weight. The family living below him, staring at the TV news starting at 7:30 pm - doesn't notice anything.

A farm in the provinces of Belarus. Equipped with a homemade weapon, a boy rehearses warrior poses. Will he kill the majestic domestic pig? Intense thriller that is about nothing less that the roots of violence.

A morning in a Warsaw apartment. After eight years of living together, a man and a woman discover that nothing unites them anymore. They make an attempt to get to the cause of their relationship crisis. Mutual resentments and accusations make the situation even worse.

A social satire about drunkenness and bureaucracy in a peaceful, idyllic village. Where the devil cannot, the deviless works effectively.

A sequel to the 2012 film Anatomia upadku (Anatomy of a Fall).

Christmas is a magical time: snow falls, the family is together and toys come to life. On this extraordinary evening, a little girl watches her doll begin its great adventure. The spell is broken when, while dancing, the wooden soldier puts his hand under the toy's dress.

A young boy comes to the Friendship Settlement, where the Soviet builders of the Palace of Culture and Science lived in the 1950s, in search of accommodation for his grandparents from Ukraine. Here he meets a girl singing in the choir, who becomes his guide. Seemingly, it is a story about love that cannot happen because of the war in Ukraine, but more deeply it is a story about finding your identity.

Jerzy, a young aspiring photographer and nature lover, finds a poor doe among the bushes during one of his walks in the forest. He decides to help her and takes her to his home. Over time, it turns out that he has made a big mistake.

The workshop participants reflected on situations from their own lives that had left a particularly strong impression on them and which were related to seemingly trivial gestures. Based on these memories, they created a film story about the value of mindfulness in relationships and its great impact on the quality of our lives. The film was made as part of the workshops during the 17th ŻUBROFFKA in Białystok in December 2023.

Iron powder mixed with car oil was used to carry out the work, which was then manipulated by means of a neodymium magnet placed under the animation table. The effect has been perfectly synchronized with electronic music.

Animated epigram about cat's fun.

The video is a collection of fragments and snippets that switch like TV channels. Wide access to cable and satellite television contributed greatly to this phenomenon (the “Viva generation”). Most of the content is found footage from low quality amateur videos (recorded using early digital cameras and mobile phones), as well as from some of the first TV programs on clubbing. The party goers shown in the video are dancing at Łódź’s Love Parade, on a Polish platform at the Love Parade in Berlin, at a Hardbass hooligan event in Łódź, as well as in various urban and rural clubs. For some techno was boiling with aggression and stupidity, for others it was a form of collective fun and self-expression.

"Once Means Forever" is a short animated film, which shows us, without delusion, story of young women. Girl who could be any other women. Looking by her eyes, we will be troubled by her one day. The day which will change her life forever.

Mists drifting among the cottages, a barn, a hearth, water from the stream, bread. And then again: hay in the barn, pitchforks in the field, potatoes and sour milk. The even rhythm of nature and the rhythm of human work and human life inscribed in it. A life in common. As in Kraszewski's poem: "There was a grandfather and a grandmother, both very old" Only the punch line is different: "My life is good. I don’t want a different one”. A warm, intimate portrait of two old people.

a Leszek Komorowski cartoon

Random dreams or nightmares, the lines can get blurry, as do the images.

Best-Of of „101“, a series of 101 videos taken in front of a white wall. The main topics are madness and solitary, also there are some eggs and sausages in it.