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The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train station waiting room, two young men lead a beer discussion, one of whom tells the other an unpleasant incident of his own life.
Short animation from Poland. Directed by Kamil Polak. Polak’s Narodziny Narodu (The Birth of a Nation) won the III prize of the Wiesbaden Film Festival in 2002.
In this documentary, Andrzej Wajda presents a biography of the famous filmmaker and his long-time collaborator, Edward Klosinski. He was an outstanding cinematographer. Among others, his wife Krystyna Janda and closest friends, as well as the director himself, talk about his extraordinary work. The film also uses excerpts from many major productions that Klosinski took part in creating.
Visual poem driven by graphic matches (matching shapes, movements, and textures between the female body and natural landscapes) and macro cinematography. It explores the idea that the body is not just in nature, but is nature.
A young swimmer's life changes drastically when she begins to suspect that what she loves most is actually her greatest threat.
Magda loves horse riding, but unfortunately she can't continue her passion. The increasingly popular in Poland hobby horising comes to her aid. The girl takes part in competitions, where she is overcome with doubts.
A young bus driver's life changes after he meets a woman that later becomes a victim of a road accident.
A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters.
This is the story of a man who travels the country alone, dragging all his small possessions behind him on a cart he has constructed. His attitude causes a variety of reactions from people - from kindness to outright dislike and intolerance.
Dear Ones is an allegorical story about people who need to make real contact with their family and friends. Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his father calls him and asks Piotr to come to his family home immediately. Piotr arrives at the same time with his sister, Marta, whom he hardly remembers and does not recognize. The father called for Piotr and Marta because their Mother went missing. Family members who meet for the first time after many years begin to search together. The facts they discover about their mother make them re-define what kind of family they are.
Teenager Kacper falls in love with a girl he met online and decides to find her.
What is it like when you have lost your memory, when you wake up and you cannot even recognize your husband? A woman wakes up from a dream facing a stranger who claims to be her husband. DARLING deals with loss, intimacy as well as alienation, helplessness and despair, but also hope.
The hero of this perverse comedy is Jerzy, a completely incurable romantic, who finds the love of his life in the voice coming from the navigation system in his car. Jerzy is a gadget-head, and loves all kinds of electronic devices – he gives them names, and then talks to them. This makes him fall in love with Carmen – the voice from his car-navigation system.
There was Hersh Dubrown - a quiet, god-fearing, poor and virtuous scribe of holy books. And behold, his house became a battlefield between Good and Evil. The good was based on Hersz Dubrown's pure soul - and Satan reached for this soul. He lost her and corrupted her with money. . . Satan first appeared as a lottery ticket seller. He persuaded Hersz to buy a lottery ticket, let him win and get rich. And Hersz for winning the lottery - tempted by Satan - sets up a factory and produces mechanically. . . tallit. Satan, in the form of the merchant Uriel Mazyk, ruins the homeworkers who make tallits by hand. But Satan cannot defeat Hersh Dubrown. When he was up to his ears in sins, he punishes himself - he commits suicide.
A poignant professional directing debut of Kobas Laksa, a visual artist, photographer, performer and an experimenter. Larysa and Boris, immigrants from Ukraine, are raising their son Mitia together. They try to balance their private and professional life. Larysa plays the flute and tries to be admitted to the local philharmonic orchestra, while Boris is a street mime. When they seem to have luck on their side, an accident that happens forces them to redefine the vision of the future they have had so far. Very close to man, this kind of cinema is balanced and intimate, with a sparse use of dialogue and great consistency of the form.
Just before the end of an 18-month-long journey from Africa, a fishing ship is sent on another 2-month cruise. The crew members miss their loved ones a lot.
Michal Szmańda suffers from epilepsy, depression and other conditions. He is cared for by his sister Aniela. The only bright ray in her life is the "garden" arranged in the kitchen. They do not live with their mother. When they were children, and this was in Stalinist times, the mother was a labor leader. Possessed by the new ideology, she neglected the house and children. When little Michael was sent to a sanatorium, his mother did not visit him at Christmas. This caused trauma for the rest of his life.
The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.
Seemingly quiet, war-damaged street in an anonymous city. A lonely, several-year-old boy inadvertently chooses her as his shelter from the cruelty of war. People are like the places they live, and those whom he meets will treat him as the war has treated their street.
During a horseback ride, Peter, a young journalist, has an accident and is taken by ambulance to the hospital. Marek, who accompanied him, sets off after the ambulance. Unexpectedly, on the way, Piotr dies. Marek, trying to find out why this happened, falls on the trail of a big scandal. Has Peter been murdered? Is Marek's life also in danger? Based on authentic events in the Lodz emergency room.
A sly critique of the communist regime in Poland, one of the carefree participants disrupts a patriotic march by retrieving a collection of unnecessary "bourgeois" items from inside his head. It introduces the disunity in their ranks as everyone starts playing with objects brought by him.
This intimate drama follows a prisoner serving his sentence who gets the chance to attend his mother's funeral. Instead of a warm welcome, however, he is greeted by coldness and mutual hostility in the family circle.
Marcin, an emissary from Paris, arrives in Warsaw. Colonel Huber follows him.
One day in the life of a 50-year-old couple. Blind Krzysztof goes skiing with Wiola, who is his wife and guide. They prepare for skiing in the early morning. Krzysztof mounts bluetooth kits on the helmets that will connect them to each other. They go to the top of the mountain in a chair lift, and the higher they go, the more we learn about their life. At the same time, weather conditions are changing, thickening mist falls on the mountain slopes. When Wiola and Krzysztof finally reach the summit, they must find each other and connect in the surrounding fog. A short documentary about love and passion.
Roman Polanski lived in Cracow/Krakow during 1936-1955 - almost 20 years of his life. These years formed him to become one of the most popular film directors of the world. The title of the documentary refers to Roman Polanski's autobiography "Roman by Polanski". By the end of 1930's Cracow/Krakow 250 000 inhabitants, about 50 000 were Jews. It was one of the happiest time in young Roman's life. WWII made him leave the Cracow ghetto and he was hidden by a Polish family near the city. After the war till 1955, it was not only the hard Stalin's time but also the time when young Roman discovered his passion for art, especially the cinema. In these times he played in social realistic plays in Young Spectator Theatre and in puppet plays in Groteska Theatre, Cracow. Finally he left Cracow for Lodz in 1955 to study directing at the Film Academy.
Ryszard - a sixty years old farmer living in a small, Polish village in complete seclusion takes care over his wife, who struggles with Alzheimer's. A young girl from a big city who he stumbles upon by accident introduces him to a world of techno music which, for at least a brief moment, helps him forget about the grave responsibility he has to carry on his shoulders.
Animation with coloured salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Graphic design based on El Greco's paintings. Music by Franz Schubert performed by Kaja Danczowska on violin and Janusz Olejniczak on piano.
Picture a northeastern Polish town, surrounded by forests and lakes; with only a few houses, a highway, and a small baroque church. That’s where an 11-year-old boy spends his last month of summer. Fascinated by stories about the Wild West and haunted by the religious imagery in church, he craves adventure. As he explores the surroundings, equipped with a cassette recorder and a bow, his innocent adventure suddenly stops being child’s play.
The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region.
A performance based on Juliusz Słowacki's Balladyna takes place in the puppet theater. However, the documentary camera does not focus on what is happening on stage, but on the actors-puppeteers hidden behind the screen.
Polish TV movie.
Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.
Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
In Masuria, trade moves to the water during summer. Tourists who enjoy sailing and canoeing are served by the “Jaś” floating shop. Bread, canned food and drinks are sold there. A full-day tour of the waterways and marinas becomes an opportunity to present the charms of the Great Lakes.
A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.
An apple is squished to the soundtrack of its amplified demise.
On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
Contemporary Szczecin. Kasia, a single mother working on a cruise ship, is waiting for true love. One day she meets handsome Piotr, an incorrigible seducer. It turns out that they have met before and even spent the night, but the man remembers neither the circumstances of that meeting nor the woman's name. However, Kasia, despite her disappointment, hopes for a lasting relationship.
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
Two friends go on a trip. They're having fun and smoking joints. Suddenly, something unexpected happens...
Every third woman in the world will have an abortion. That’s a fact. But in Poland there's a near-total abortion law as the government treats the life of the fetus as more important than the life of a woman. Luckily, there is Abortion Dream Team - a group of four women who run a hotline supporting their sisters in need. They inform on how to perform self-managed abortions at home or direct them to clinics abroad. They work all around the clock and they brag on TikTok that they facilitate 100 abortions per day or shock people with the slogan "Abortion is OK!”.
A film tragicomedy realized in the convention of a musical. The whole is based on new performances of songs by Jan Kaczmarek, which form a universal story about Poland and Poles, our history, our myths, fantasies, dreams and vices.
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
Rami Elhanan is Israeli and Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. While meeting her friends, Smadar, Rami’s daughter, dies in a suicide attack in the center of Jerusalem. Ten years later, Abir, Bassam’s daughter, is fatally shot by a young Israeli soldier during a break between classes. The tragic death of their daughters brings the fathers closer together and gives rise to a long-term friendship and a common mission. Rami and Bassam travel together and tell their stories in various places in Israel, Palestine and around the world.
Franciszek Mazur is a famous actor. One day, while returning from a holiday in the countryside, a serious accident occurs. Mazur's wife is seriously injured. When she learns about her husband's affair, she falls down the stairs and dies. But Mazur's life with his new wife is not happy ...
Three women, one person. An astronaut drifting in the cosmic void argues with her “I” – the one from the past and from the future. Will there be room for all three materialized personalities on board a small ship? A comedic, feminist psychoanalysis in the science fiction convention with elements of musical and animation.
Did the 1989 revolution in Central Europe devour its children? This question is answered by representatives of the anti-communist opposition from Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Berlin. The documentary shows images of the upheaval, with songs by Jacek Kaczmarski, Jaroslaw Hutka and Wolf Biermann as a backdrop.
This is a documentary about a well-known figure in Polish politics - Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. The hero of the film is a man with a very rich resume. He was born and raised in Warsaw. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz, a soldier of the Home Army, an activist of the Polish Underground State, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, twice served as foreign minister, and finally a publicist, writer and scientist. In a forty-two-minute documentary it would be impossible to present the full biography of this man - that's why this film selects only the more important episodes from Bartoszewski's life. His life is narrated by the hero himself. Stories about him are also spun in front of the camera: Jerzy Sienkiewicz, Jerzy Turowicz, Krzysztof Kozłowski, Israel Gutman, Jan Nowak Jeziorański, Stanisław Lem and Stefan Kisielewski.
At 4.13 a.m. Artur will step on board of a train in Wroclaw. At 6.02 he will kill a human being. At 6.51 he will get off the train in Katowice City and truly smile for the first time in two years.However, will everything go according to plan? Robert Wieckiewicz ( star of Oscar nominated 'In Darkness' and upcoming 'Walesa') plays a desperate father trying not cross the line between serving justice and revenge. First independent 3d short in Poland. '4:13' was designed as an experiment in stereoscopic cinematography.
Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
The thirty-year-old returns to his home village after years.
Warsaw is becoming a meeting place for people from different corners of the world, of different ages, with different life stories. What they have in common is a feeling of being lost and a dire need to run away from their solitude. The film shows an image of a contemporary city from couchsurfers’ perspective.
13-year-old Khodor is a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education, health-care and movement outside of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. Through the process, many of the family's old secrets are revealed.
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
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.
Filipka, a person of fluid gender identity, is preparing for their first stage performance. However, they are more concerned about their conservative parents' opinion than the reaction of a crowd of strangers.
Memories about the writer Marek Hłasko.
A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
Documentary about infertility treatment.
A contemporary psychological drama set in an environment of experimental pilots - testers.