Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

Story of a pilgrim who comes to the Cathedral on the border of the known world. He wants to find answers. He finds tranquility.

A traveler from the future wanders through Argentina, while the world is on the brink of an atomic war.

Boris "Kos" Kosinski is a top MMA fighter. In the biggest battle of his life with his greatest rival, Denim Takaev, he makes a mistake that destroys his entire career. He loses everything. This failure brings him through a series of ups and downs, but it also pushes him to undertake a titanic effort to fight and win back respect and love

From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.

The marital argument is interrupted by a phone call with a desperate cry for help.

Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.

Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures.

Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.

At a time of nascent capitalism, Peter made his fortune in the textile industry not only through his knowledge of fashion trends, but above all through his ability to establish close relationships with women. The life of a pantyhose manufacturer can sometimes be very funny. This is because they have opened the gates to paradise for him...

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.

A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.

Part of HBO Europe's Polish at Home series. Jerzy Skolimowski was in Sicily when the pandemic hit, where he was supposed to shoot his next film, Baltazar. He and his wife, Ewa Piaskowska, decided to stay on the Italian island. This film follows their experience during the pandemic.

Young actors, not afraid of restrictions, they tell their stories from their hearts - stories which tries to be both authentic and wise as well as crazy and silly. About asking questions in order to touch myself, in order to touch you.

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.

A 12-year-old boy and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son retreat are shattered when it becomes obvious dad is after more than fish.

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.

The war in Ukraine begins. Ukrainian children from the war are brought to a Russian elementary school. One of them turns out to be the nephew of Wiktoria, a Ukrainian music teacher who hasn't seen him for years.

Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.

The protagonist of the film is Wojtek, who works in finding amber. One day, someone attacks him and steals a whole bag of them. Wojtek decides to find the attacker. However, it is going to be very dangerous.

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

A London agent is sent to Poland to obtain information about Wehrmacht officers reluctant to Hitler. He is hiding in the forester's lodge with a wounded German soldier.

The Swedish invasion of 1965 is underway. Swedish troops attack Poland and occupy a significant part of the country. A Swedish governor settles in Warsaw, arousing widespread hatred. Three teenage residents of Warsaw, Maciej, Kacper, and Kazik, with the help of Mr. Rafałowicz, decide to drive the Swedes out of the city.

Baska runs a catering company from home. In addition, she takes care of three children and takes care of her husband, Kacper, who constantly works overtime in the office. Somewhere she lost her spark and zest for life. When she meets the handsome and famous choreographer Jim at work, her life turns upside down. Jim helps Baska gain new clients and her business flourishes. Baska is also blooming. However, her home life suffers. In addition, Kacper begins to suspect Baska of having an affair and demands a divorce. Baska must decide whether she wants to start her life anew or return to what she has built over the years.

18-year-old Anna finds out she's terminally ill and has only a few years left. Fragile girl changes her mindset, starts living out the remaining time as intensively as possible and marries Piotr, a student whom she just met in sanatorium.

When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.

Writer Slawomir Mrozek recalls his past as he prepares himself to move out from Mexico and resettle in his native Poland. He discusses his youth, career and emigration, while walking down his vast Mexican ranch La Epifania.

Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to his infertility. However, the woman that promised him one has changed her mind, and now the provincial gigolo is trying to make his wife pregnant.

A group of inner-city youths travel to the Mazurian Lake District, where a maniacal murderer is prowling.

The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.

A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.

Medical students begin their rotations at a facility, quickly discovering the enormous responsibility they will bear as practicing physicians.

On the day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that their spouses are not their soulmates. As a result, the couples reshuffle and new relationships are formed.

Matthew comes to a seaside town to see a performance of his play, although even his brother Marc, who plays the role of Napoleon, does not know that Metthew is its author. Also in life Marc plays "Napoleon", becoming the leader of a group of local youth.

Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.

Norbert, the protagonist of the film, is a priest. But also a father and a criminal convicted of bank robbery. His future is uncertain, as is his family's.

Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.

Eighteen year old Emilia is struggling with loneliness in her life. Her father has left and her mother is never at home. She meets different men, but they only give her temporary satisfaction. Then there is a change. Her thirteen year old brother, Josef, is about to step over an invisible boundary between siblings and change their relationship forever.

Propaganda film. The army is portrayed as a force for progress in communist Poland, eradicating the medieval superstitions of people living in the provinces.

The sight of a wounded neighbor causes anxiety in a young man.

A monk who got away with everything. Although much of his behavior aroused public outrage, or at least controversy, he never suffered any real consequences for it.

The artistic and spiritual journey of a Polish January insurgent, artist-painter and benefactor of the poor - Adam Chmielowski, who, after years of turbulent youth, decides to abandon his former life and the world gets to know him as Brother Albert. His rebellious nature and disagreement with evil and suffering cause him to escape by a trick from Tsarist captivity hidden in a coffin. After achieving fame, he abandons art to serve the people. His tragic fate is crowned by a breakdown, expulsion from the Jesuit order and confinement in a mental institution. However, he was soon reborn and returned, as Brother Albert - a future saint. The film's story of his life is complemented by the fates of his famous friends and artists - Helena Modrzejewska and Jozef Chelmonski.

Two new media journalists get on track of a murder case in a psychiatric clinic. The outcome stuns them.

A prostitute is enlisted into the Security Services in order to steal some highly classified records just as the communist regime is about to topple. What begins as political intrigue deftly turns into a complicated love affair.

Jan Winkler borrows 1,000 zł from a respected professor in exchange for introducing young women to dubious “scientific” experiments. He uses the money to buy a nightclub and falls for prosecutor Alicja Horn.

A miniature parable about a young boy who misunderstands the function of a bird feeder.

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives in Paris with his beloved wife, but their quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of Octavius de Saville, a former admirer of the Countess from her days in Florence. Obsessed with possessing her, Octavius seeks out Dr. Cherbonneau, a sinister figure dabbling in Eastern teachings of reincarnation. Through the doctor’s occult science, Octavius attempts a dangerous “exchange of souls,” scheming to inhabit the Count’s body and win the woman he desires.

A thought-provoking documentary that explores the relationship between man and nature in the Polish Tatras Mountains, focusing on mass tourism at the site known as the ‘Eye of the Sea’, one of the most beautiful lakes in Europe.

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

The story of two very close lesbian friends: Małgosia and Mariola. One day, Małgosia learns that she is terminally ill. Together with her friend, she goes to a sanctuary famous for miracles. Along the way, they see the figures of the seven deadly sins and a number of characters from the New and Old Testaments. As the plot unfolds, the viewer learns that the whole journey is not real, but takes place only in the imagination, the inner space of the characters.

In 1943 Stanislawa Leszczynska was arrested by gestapo as a result of helping Lodz ghetto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanislawa worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labors not loosing any child - Her name - as one of four outstanding Polish women of the last century - was placed on Life and Changing the Nation Goblet sacrificed by Polish women in Jasna Gora Monastery. What was the secret of this extraordinary woman? Where did her strength came from? Why even facing death she has never lost faith in what she was doing?

A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal the truth the more uncertainty he discovers.

Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so Władzio offers for him to move in his apartment.

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.

In an idyllic working class community, 13 year old Anka grows up, going through stages of adolescence, dreaming, first love and gossiping with girlfriends. Roughly disturbed by the shame and disgrace of alcoholism - leaves unwashable stains upon the community, that tries to cope with abuse and depression, and the system (including school teachers) who try to avoid the subject. This story was aimed at parents, to give them morally an insight into what happens when a young girl has to deal with the disgrace of an alcoholic father and a mentally instable mother.

Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.

Local show-off Baltazar desperately fights for his father’s attention, competing with his beloved brother, Teofil. One day, he decides to participate in a televised talent show — his father’s favourite programme. What he doesn’t know is that Teofil has also applied. Baltazar must face rejection and disappointment.

When a renowned Berlin architect pays a visit to his birthplace, a Polish village which was part of Germany before World War II, he's suddenly compelled to discover the truth about his past.