Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.

The film, inspired by Goya’s paintings – mostly his darker works – and made in the same way as 2017’s Loving Vincent.

Based on a true story. Two brothers, Artur (22) and Marcin (12), murder their own mother. The film starts with the boys' arrest and then takes us through the last 12 months in a series of flashbacks.

Eighteen-year-old Kosa is the best skater in Wrocław. He has a beautiful girlfriend, great friends, an adored grandfather and a clear plan for the future - he wants to win a prestigious skateboarding competition with a lot of money at stake and a trip to Los Angeles. Everything changes dramatically when, during a carefree vacation, Kosa meets Zora - a magnetic Romani girl, with whom magic and a passionate feeling that he has never experienced before enters the boy's life.

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.

What starts as a pleasant taxi-ride quickly descends into chaos.

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.

A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.

A seeming coincidence makes the paths of a police officer Daniel and two twin brothers from Ukraine cross. Thanks to the information acquired from Zenia and Alex and their contacts with the local underworld, the young policeman is quickly promoted and becomes an officer of the Central Anticorruption Bureau.

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

Ambitious violinist Dominika and her journalist husband Robert face a marriage in crisis - she’s drawn to a wealthy businessman, while he struggles to keep their family together. Assigned to report on miraculous pilgrim testimonies at the shrine of St. Joseph, Robert uncovers parallels between his own life and the silent protector of the Holy Family. As he reaches a crossroads that will decide his family’s fate, he must ask himself: can he rise to become a modern-day St. Joseph?

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.

A story about a boy from a Podlachian village, who realises his biggest dream - to sing and cheer people up. With his obstinacy, hard work and many sacrifices, he achieved his goal.

Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.

A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.

Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned by her loved ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept her true self. This multi-award-winning documentary is an intensely sympathetic and powerful account of one individual’s struggle to gain acceptance—even in the midst of profound physical hardship.

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.

Monday 1978. Little Szymon, playing with his friends, becomes the perpetrator of a car accident in which the parents of a little girl, Magda, die. She herself comes out of the catastrophe unscathed. This event has an indelible mark on the boy's psyche. Twenty years pass. Szymon is a railwayman, Magda works at a cosmetics company. She doesn't remember anything about her childhood, and her life passes between work and disco. Her granddaughter Ola is looked after by her grandmother. During one of the crazy games, a young woman meets Szymon. This is not an accidental meeting, because the man - tormented by guilt - has long tried to find out something about her. Magda initially rejects Szymon's courtship. Over time, however, the mysterious admirer begins to fascinate her.

An experimental short film.

A gas station attendant unexpectedly forms a bond with an ordinary fish. From this seemingly trivial encounter emerges a series of unsettling events.

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

Based on a true story, a film about teenage Luka who goes to a religious rehab centre led by a self-proclaimed priest, Antonio. The despotic regime enforced with moral and physical torture make him realise that escape is the only way to survive.

Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will provide police record, unless the image in three days back in place.

The action of the film takes place during the magical time between Christmas and New Years. The turmoil of love brings the three sisters to the romantic Sopot, where, as part of family deliberations, they have to decide what to do with their romantic life. Though they begin their stay on the couch, Bridget Jones style, they need to quickly establish a plan of action as their guys have just arrived in town begging for a second chance. However, to regain the sisters' trust, they will have to atone for their sins and win their hearts again. Will they make it?

Agnieszka is the daughter of a famous opera singer. However, her mother gives up her career in order to devote more time to her daughter. She cannot live without music, though. After some time, she returns to the stage, but then it turns out that her daughter is seriously ill...

A young archeology student comes to Królowy Most to study the cellars under the church. She finds there a collection of historic documents which may have an enormous impact on the future and prosperity of the village.

Evita Peron’s private pilot, Richard Nixon’s press officer, Queen Elisabeth’s guest of honor, first non-Cuban journalist to interview Fidel Castro. Living in communist Poland, where people are banned to have passports. Meet Tony Halik – the legend and the liar.

A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.

Doctor Nowak is a lecturer of literature at the university. When his wife leaves him, a mentally damaged and financially troubled scientist receives an offer from a photographer friend to write an erotic novel, which his friend will illustrate with his own photos. In the course of his work, the literary fiction he creates blends more and more with reality. He begins to think that he himself is experiencing love adventures in the pages of his own book.

Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and enslaves women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of that women like and uses it for his benefits.

For years, Russia has been trying to rebuild its empire. The hybrid war doctrine introduced by Putin in 2013 assumes attacking Western countries without declaring war. The invasion of Ukraine made us lose our sense of security. A pair of documentary filmmakers from Poland set off on a journey to look for answers to the question about the threats that may face Central and Eastern Europe.

Lucy and Kusy have to face quite a problem. From the States suddenly arrives Lucy's mysterious husband Louis. It turns out that their divorce was not fully carried out. Louis fights for his wife's lost feelings, he wants the girl to return to the US with him. Kusy removes himself into the shadows, but over time begins to suspect Louis of not very pure intentions. In the background, there is a clash between the cunning Czerepach, in the role of an auditor from the Chamber of Accounts, and the Village Head. Desperate, the Village Head, together with the entrepreneur Więclawski, who has won all tenders in the municipality for years, is plotting against his eternal enemy. The bench regulars are also preparing a surprise.

Soyer is a young boy who despises consumption, conformity and everything related to mass culture. Some people think he's crazy, some think he's an idiot, and some think he's... a savior. After his mother is hospitalized, all responsibility for Soyer falls on his beautiful sister Gretel. One day the siblings go on a trip to the mountains. They are accompanied by Gretel's husband - an ambitious bank employee named Janek. Soyer tries to infect the travel companions with his world view. He intends to do it even against their will. All tricks are allowed. An innocent ride turns into an exciting expedition that will change all its participants irrevocably.

A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with a painter.

A town near Warsaw. A group of teenagers rules one of the courtyards: Ali, Pawik, and Małgośka, the object of both boys' fascination. A few years later, these same young people form a typical youth gang. Ali and Pawik gather around them a group of peers who have been unable to find their place in society and want to live an easy life. Robberies and thefts are their idea of a comfortable existence. A few more years pass and the gang transforms into a mafia. After the 1989 elections, it enters into deals with politicians. It also gets into a conflict with Russian gangsters.

Gabriel and Robert have been together for three years. Robert is hiding their relationship from the world. Gabriel wants the opposite: he would like everyone to find out how much he and Robert love each other. One day, Natalia, a girl with whom Gabriel had a one-night stand three years ago, pays them visit. She brings a little girl Amelia with her and leaves the child with Gabriel. Later, Natalia calls and tells Gabriel that Amelia is his daughter.

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.

An all-access documentary follows Dawid Podsiadło's epic Polish stadium tour with exclusive footage of the singer-songwriter's journey onstage and off.

Brothers Peter and David spend an evening together, lavishly sipped on alcohol. They complain about everything, most of all about their partners. Peter would like his beloved to be more romantic, while David dreams of a fiancée who is determined and demanding. They decide to put their girlfriends up for auction online to see which one is worth more. When they realize in the morning what they have done, they try to undo everything. It's not so easy, as the auction is very successful.

Cichociemni ("the Silent-Dark Ones" or "The Unseen and Silent") were elite special-operations paratroops of the Polish Army in exile, created in Great Britain during World War II to operate in occupied Poland.

Remek Wróbel is a mailman and an enthusiastic member of an amateur football team. He’s pushing on forty, living the life of a bachelor. One day, everything changes – his neat, tidy life is turned upside down by the appearance of Grandpa, whom he hadn’t met before, and his new chatty neighbour, Marzenka.

Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.

When director Isabella Kolb learned that her great-great-uncle was imprisoned in Stutthof, the first German concentration camp established on Polish soil during the Second World War, she begins an investigation into his story and the camp's little-known history. Despite its significance, Stutthof remains one of the least documented sites of Nazi persecution, leaving families of its victims with lingering questions. Through witness testimonies and archival traces, the film follows Kolb's search for Uncle Edmund and the lives of those who endured Stutthof, offering a quiet reflection on memory, loss, and the lasting echoes of trauma that continue to shape the generations that followed.

Tadeusz Kantor was a great artist. Not only in its own - the twentieth century. Not only in the area of ​​his homeland - Poland. A well-known Krakow documentalist and at the same time his longtime collaborator - Krysztof Miklaszewski- he decided to reconstruct Kantor's road through Europe.

The worst graduate of the police school goes to Królowy Most. At the same time, this town is chosen as an asylum for a crown witness in a mafia trial.

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.

A possessive mother, furious that her pregnant daughter’s lover is unacceptable, blackmails her unsuspecting subordinate into marrying the young woman sight unseen. On the wedding day, the groom wakes up hung over beside a stranger, and must scramble to hide his secret lover before the bride, her mother, and the best man arrive.