Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

Two death row prisoners willingly confess to more murders to delay their execution. A TV adaptation of Janusz Krasiński's play.

The wire girl no longer wants to be of wire, so she embarks on a journey to find a solution to her problem.

Addiction to television comes in terrible and ridiculous forms. The creativity of the viewers is limitless, just like the creativity of creators of animated films.

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

The Princess is 6 years old and has the best dad in the world. Only she knows that her dad is really a brave knight who fights a terrible monster. The worst are the nights when Mom is on duty at the hospital and Princess is left home alone. if Dad doesn't come back for a long time, it's a sign that the monster may attack....

Jowita, who seemingly has it all with her boyfriend Krystian, yearns to start a family, just to discover he isn’t ready for commitment. When Krystian adopts a shelter dog named Lucy to steer Jowita’s affections, the clever border collie sets Jowita on a path toward a new suitor, forcing Krystian to prove his love or lose her forever.

A man has a mysterious power which causes the death of each person he condemns.

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

Camil wakes up one night without a penis. The nightmare continues when his partner also disappears after meeting a former lover. Camil sets out to find her and - wearing female clothes - joins a secret community dedicated to fertility, somewhere near a lake. And what he finds there will prove even more disturbing than his recent misadventures...

Maria, a veteran architect heading a design studio, finally secures approval for a long-awaited bearing factory project, but now faces a two-year deadline and staff eager for bonuses. She insists on a meticulously accurate plan that will delay opening yet save millions, drawing ire from her team and superiors who urge her to relent or take leave. When the industrial union ultimately backs her vision but replaces her as project lead, Maria rejoins the team as a regular member, steadfastly pursuing her principles while navigating the personal cost of her professional convictions.

The film tells the story of two doctors - life partners working together in the emergency room. However, the relationship between them starts to deteriorate. When Maria begins to weigh down with all these personal matters, she goes on vacation with her little nephew, away from problems ...

Silesian-born Jörg and his friend Andreas return after years to visit their old pals Gienek and Jerzy in an Upper Silesian village - Jörg arrives full with gifts, convinced that life in Poland must still be hard. To his surprise, he discovers that much has changed, and Poland is no longer the poor country he remembered.

Four siblings on the verge of coming-of-age try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them.

Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the eleventh hour, and he called off the trip. Instead, the teenager is sent to his grandpa in the countryside. To drag Jeremi away from the Internet, his dad gives him a special mission.

Agata has just gone through a painful breakup and, digging through the dusty corners of her memory and video archives, she desperately tries to piece together the reasons for her romantic failure. If our memory is a creation, then what is film?

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?

After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm.

A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clear bias of the witnesses, he was convicted. Now the locals fear that his return will bring revenge for the false accusations. Zdzich hides in the forest. One day, he meets Romanek, the son of Jadźka, whose honor he once defended in a fight with others. Romanek cannot answer who his father is. Their meetings become more frequent and turn into friendship. Zdzich decides to come out of hiding and makes a show of attending church. He proposes to Jadźka and is accepted. He also explains the circumstances of his arrest to the locals. The next day, the forester is killed by a mysterious bullet. Zdzich was the last person seen with him. This causes unrest in the village.

Film tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The zone was created after the disaster in 1986. Most of them live in wooden cottages with no running water and sometimes with no electricity in almost completely abandoned villages. Despite harsh conditions they don't want to leave. "I was born here, and here I shall die" is what they often say.

A dead boy is found in Warsaw-on-Sea. Police Superintendent Delman arrives at the scene of the crime and quickly realises that he knew the victim and that the boy’s secret is also his. His investigations lead him to the seaside district of Noamia.

Jasiek and Olga photograph waterfalls, while Hela and Zuza take cheeky portraits of the Pope. Together, the four friends enjoy cycling trips, admiring the views, bathing in streams, and passing around a joint. It sounds like the perfect recipe for summer lightheartedness—until the instincts suppressed by relationship routines awaken.

During the day, we could see traces of passersby and the couple of protagonists on the white and soft snow. They go to a dinner party. The evening will end tragically, but the next day begins with the milkman's footsteps, as usual.

The young count makes a bet with his friends about who will be the first to win the favor of a girl they meet. The opportunity to meet her arises unexpectedly quickly.

Zakopane is the winter capital of Poland, where Marszałkowska Street smoothly changes into Krupówki. Hitchhiking, views from Gubałówka, mountaineering – all of them, from a male perspective, could be an opportunity to meet a beautiful woman.

Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall in love. But there are three problems: his wife and two children. He must choice what is more importent for him - family or Irena.

The camera shows us a door handle and the door's striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat. He approaches a bed in the room, where a shirtless man sleeps.

Grodno, the eastern border of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bomb the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Literally and symbolically, the world of a carefree childhood, fun and first crushes ends.

Bolek, a young locksmith’s apprentice, fights off two suspicious men to defend a friend and, fleeing the police, hides at a party where guests mistake him for the wealthy but naïve Lolek.

Preview and behind the scenes of the cult Polish series "Miodowe lata".

One night noble married couple Fabiusz and Waleria find that their long-estranged friend Mucjusz has returned from his travels of distant lands. During dinner, he presents them with mysterious and exotic gifts.

A murder occurs in a small village, shocking the local community. The locals live in seclusion, disliking outsiders. However, the murder brings in a homicide detective who gradually uncovers the secrets behind the crime.

Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.

In 1974 a group of students declares what they plan to be in 1980, and the series follows their lives during those six years.

On the day Andrzej graduates from police academy and receives his officer's stripes, his father, a senior police officer, is murdered. Andrzej, assigned to the investigative brigade, tries to find the murderer, who turns out to be a member of an international gang of counterfeiters. The mysterious ringleader resorts to the help of Janina, an innocent girl who has nothing to do with the criminals. He blackmails her into pretending to be in love with Andrzej and extracting the necessary information from him. But the girl falls in love for real, and he falls in love with her too...

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

Two men spend the shortest night and the longest day of summer together on military molehills. Their dreams are overseen by the White Bear, the Mole, and the Horse. Post-injury rehabilitation are subject to change, especially wen you psycho-physical state is the most important thing to you…

Longing for sun, breath and exotic thrills, Kasia and Tomek set off on a dream trip to the island of Bali in Indonesia. Lying on a paradise beach, their thoughts are very far from their duties resulting from working for large corporations. They both want to have a baby very much, but they also know that before that happens, they must deal with each other and work through their conflicts. One day they decide to go on a trip towards the volcano on the island and the jungle around it. There they meet by chance a mysterious man who invites them to his home. The couple decide to follow in the footsteps of the stranger. The atmosphere thickens minute by minute, and the disturbing aura becomes more and more infiltrated by the Polish couple. Soon there will be events that will lead Kasia and Tomek to a huge internal transformation. Nothing will ever be the way it was. They will both remember this trip to Bali forever.

A somewhat ironic depiction of life in a small Polish town at the beginning of the 1970s. The local brass band plays in the streets. Girls stroll, younger boys play soccer. Someone is looking at someone with interest, someone is courting someone, someone is parting ways. A poet associated with a local art group writes poems about everyday life.

Life is pretty routine for this elderly couple: he is an amateur inventor; she’s a compulsive knitter. Watched by their gray cat, together they create something special. Or do they?

Neglected by his parents, Slawek joins a gang of hooligans. A mysterious new neighbor tries to get the boy out of inappropriate company.

Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-female evening in space with some pre-war music hits becomes possible.

Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.

A journey into time, landscape and consciousness: The Southwestern United States in the black-and-white moving images and unsettling instrumental music. Entropy of the American dream.

A documentary in which a picture of pre-war Poznan is reconstructed with the help of archival materials from regional collections and staging. The structural axis of the film is a radio broadcast from August 1939 with the participation of well-known and respected residents of the city, who answer the question: is there going to be a war?

18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.

Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows.

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.

Ursula is preparing an Easter breakfast in honor of her daughter and her new fiancé. When her daughter arrives, it turns out that her fiancé is thirty years older than her. Breakfast turns into dinner, and Ursula experiences the worst day of her life.

The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. A crack suddenly appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms.