Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

A dream-like recreation of a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto based on the famous photograph of a frightened child with raised hands.

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.

When a gang of thugs harasses a young girl performing an ancient ritual, they unleash a wrath that makes them pay the price.

Commander Pirx leads a crew of humans and androids on a rescue mission, unaware which are which. His secret task is determining if androids are superior. The mission turns perilous when sabotaged.

Based on true events: in 1990s Łódź, medics started to kill their patients with pavulon for earning money.

Yara, a daughter of a Moroccan boxing legend and a coach who runs a family boxing school, is being raised to become the next champion. When her parents separate, boxing remains the only thing that still connects them.

Darling, I Love You is a film showing controversial relationships of Polish women with young lover boys from one of the numerous seaside resorts in Egypt. Such foreign trips have recently become increasingly popular among single women. Travel agencies are rushing to promise journeys loaded with unforgettable experiences. The film reveals what we can’t see in television spots or travel catalogues. It offers a shocking view of Hurghada through a different prism: Polish women - fascinated by exotic appearance and hungry for love, outraged Polish guys, and beach lover boys always ready to please a visitor.

A short film about Gabo, a six-year-old boy, and his grandfather Ivan, who is living with dementia. Through the Kukeri tradition of wearing massive fur costumes to drive away evil spirits, Gabo tries to bring back his grandfather’s memories and heal the bond between them.

Immigrant Ó finds himself in a world devoid of feelings and emotions, without inhibitions. There is no shame, joy, trust or sorrow. Feelings and emotions may be purchased as drugs. Ó meets Eliza, and together they indulge in a novel mixture – Love

The film is inspired by the real events – the story of Kati Andreevoj and Daria Chultsova – the two journalists from TV Belsat, an independent station broadcasting from Poland and their arrest by the Belarusian police in Minsk.

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.

A true story about the filmmaker's father, a mesmerist, exorcist, and healer who can help everyone but himself. Told from the point of view of his young son (the filmmaker as a boy), who both adores and abhors his father. Marcin Wrona uses a visually energetic collage technique to create what he calls "tragicomic kitsch," one with a fantastical sense of Monty Python about it, like a missing Terry Gilliam project.

The adventures of a little chicken that's disconnected from the herd.

For short films Antonio Mitrikeski by many critics said is that worked visually very simple, full of emotions caused by shaping the artistic staff. Idea author draws from the eternal themes, between life and death, between love and hope, in the infinity of time and space. Ordinary people with common ties between them, these ordinary visual sight Communications turns into a subtle threads of the eternal.

The story of several people involved in the sale of a yet unborn child. A couple of irresponsible young people want to sell their child to a couple who lost their offspring. The mother of the girl who wants to sell the child objects. This leads to conflict between her and the young couple. The girl's mother additionally brings up little Berry, from whom she hides a secret from the past. The heroes are put to a severe test. They have to face the darkest corners of their souls.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This film tells the story of women who are "Survivors", not "Victims", and who witnessed to the cruelty of war.

Danusia lives alone. Her everyday life is prayer and cooking. He relaxes by looking at old photos from his childhood and youth. In the evenings he calls Kuba. The 17-year-old grandson lives and studies in a care and educational facility.

An oneiric impression about Włodzimierz "Kinior" Kiniorski - a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the Polish jazz scene. It is an intimate and uncompromising film made by his son.

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

Another transport arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Former prisoner no. 181970, a member of the Sonderkommando, recounts years later how the gassing and burning of corpses took place. The film ends with the song "El Malei Rachamin" for the souls of the dead.

A fifteen years old foster child tries to establish friendship with the kids of the family she visits for Christmas.

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of reality and creativity intersect. Our protagonist navigates through it all seamlessly, and in the process shows us the importance of imagination.

A well-known actor, Bogumił Kobiela, appears on the beach in Sopot, where he does various strange and funny things for sunbathers, incl. changes into winter overalls and goes for a walk in skis, pretends to be a lifeguard controlling the possession of swimming cards, says goodbye to accidentally met sunbathers as a departing vacationer.

The story concerns life and work of Polish contemporary painter and photographer Kris Krzysztof Marchlak. The documentary focuses specifically on the artist’s recreation of the quattrocento and mannerist iconography of Saint Sebastian through the medium of artistic photography. “Simulacrum” was directed by Weronika Plińska and Wojciech Jankowski. The film was shot between 2023 and 2025 in Poland and in Italy, as a result of ethnographic research project, based on interviews and participant observation, which concerned creative documentary filmmaking as a tool for exploring contemporary art practices.

Based on Michal Witkowski's bestseller, communism transforms into capitalism as seen from the perspective of 17-year-old Michaska, who enters the gay community of 1980s Poland.

After the fall of communism in 1989, colour TVs are no longer a luxury good in Poland. The screens in many Polish homes are beginning to look more like the reality outside the window. But is reality truly colourful?

Roma, Stach and Chudy work illegally in the grounds of a declining steelworks. Roma is in the throes of a burning romance and decides to leave the job, seeing his new feelings as an excuse for changing his life. His friends aim to dissuade him. After a long day ay work, they visit his significant other and one of the many versions of the tale of Cain and Abel unfolds.

A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.

Piotr tries to committ suicide after his wife leaves him. His friend Marek takes him on a trip to seaside resort Sopot to find love again. After many misadventures, Piotr tries to kill himself again, but finds love at the last moment.

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.

Teenage skaters from Minsk are enjoying the summer of 2020, probably the most difficult summer in the history of Belarus.

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

On a side street, Darek Krycki picks up the "goods." The delivery man is Kruger, a local mafioso. The package, which Krycki hides in the glove compartment of his car, contains four times more drugs than usual. A few minutes later he is stopped by the police. After a routine check, it turns out that the goods have disappeared. Krycki decides to ask his friends, Lukada and Ira, for help. They meet at the stadium where they trained together as children. They decide to find out who set Krycki up. Can their friendship withstand such a test? Who can really be trusted?

The director in the film allows primary school pupils to express themselves. Teens and kids talk about themselves, their teaching system, their peers - they are not optimistic about it.

Inspired by Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Rafał Mularz, a stranger in his own society, creates a daily routine and a lifestyle that protects him from the outside world. His method seems to work fine until he is confronted with another stranger. A man thrown out by the sea, an immigrant. Rafał has to make a decision: Will he confront this society unfit for strangers and take responsibility for this man? Or will he choose to continue to protect himself?

An extraordinary musical-biographical journey through the colorful and extraordinarily rich life of one of the most popular artists of the domestic music scene, a true diva of the stage, 90-year-old Irena Santor. The film shows this true icon of Polish song as her artistic journey slowly comes to an end. The film is immersed in memories, personal confessions, reflections on life, creativity, success and love. The documentary is also the voice of the heroine herself, her look at the past, being her own summary of her artistic path.

The residents of a village near Opole are celebrating Easter Sunday. People, as well as horses, have gathered near the church. It is a traditional component of Easter celebrations, which include prayers, a horse ride around the households nearby and fervent singing under the influence of alcohol. Enigmatic editing and black and white photographs reflect the dignified atmosphere of the holiday in which the sacred is combined with the profane in a bizarre chase. All this happens under the patronage of the figurine of Resurrected Christ. The holiday of Krzyżoki and its celebrations make a typical southern Polish tradition.

Landscapes of drained marshes and reclaimed meadows, from where scientists from the Experimental Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Popielno relocate beavers to forest wetlands, secluded lakes, and rivers essential for the beavers' survival. With the film camera, we participate in this operation of capturing and transporting the animals, observing their first steps in the new environment, which they begin to organize for their needs. They fell trees they have gnawed, build dams, and create water expanses.

A compelling story about a clash between two powerful personalities - the backstory of cooperation of Bayer Full frontman with a Polish-born Chinese businessman. Will the most popular disco polo band make it big in China?

Witek dreams about going to Great Britain. To afford a ticket he starts to sell old newspapers.

A documentary portrait of Aleksander Zelwerowicz, the master of the Polish scene, created on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his artistic career. He played over 800 roles, the directors of the film chose his three masterpieces: a theater one, a film one, and a radio one.

When Marcin dies in an accident, his family mourns. However, instead of seeking reconciliation, the relatives of the deceased furiously scratch fresh wounds. The atmosphere in the house thickens with each word spoken because neither the brother nor the parents were prepared for the young man's departure. Mutual relations also become more complicated, and attempts to start a conversation do not lead to an agreement. To make matters worse, the question returns more and more clearly: who is to blame for this death?

What was meant to be a nice dinner in a restaurant turns into a furious fight where Orange speaks louder, proving that it ends the same as always.

Etam, a young man from a small town in Lailonia, plucks pears from a neighbor's tree for his friend Nita. He is branded with a red patch on his pants for the theft. It soon turns out that the patch is contagious. Red patches appear on the pants of all Etam's friends. The patches get bigger and the boys wear a big red patch instead of pants. So they decide to pretend that they have red pants. When they come to school, however, the Teacher sees red patches instead of pants. He tells them to return to school only when they have pants. The boys, on Nita's advice, make holes in the patches and sew the real colored patches onto them. To the boys' surprise, the Teacher at school accepts the patched pants. He explains to them that the previous day they had red patches, and now they have patched pants. This is because it is possible to patch pants, while patches cannot be patched.

In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side.

Artur Zmijewski, a Polish artist born in 1966, explores social norms through films and photographs by creating unusual situations and documenting participants’ reactions. His work often addresses long-term trauma from historical and sociopolitical events, focusing on marginalized groups and popular beliefs. In “Sculpture Plein-air. Swiecie 2009,” Zmijewski organized workshops where Polish artists collaborated with steel workers in Swiecie to create public sculptures, inspired by 1960s collaborations in Elblag. This project questions the possibility of overcoming current social and political divides.

The story of Wladyslaw Rzepecka, a 17-year-old who undertook the dangerous mission of transporting documents about German genocide in Poland to the Home Army Headquarters. On the train from Katowice to Warsaw, the young courier pretended to be German, all the while aware that deconspiration risked death. The materials she delivered made their way to Jan Karski.

A film miniature to classical music. An atmospheric film impression introducing the viewer to the aesthetic motifs of the Far East: a fan, a vase with Eastern ornaments, a Chinese teacup, fabric. A butterfly flies out of the opening fan and leads the viewer through details to panoramas of Chinese landscapes, only to return to the closing fan in the film's final sequence. The film image synchronized to the rhythm of Fritz Kreisler's music. The animated film, made in watercolor technique on paper, retains the character and delicacy of Chinese painting.

During a spacewalk, astronaut Alex notices a stellar anomaly that signals an impending disaster. Or could it simply be a remnant of one that has already occurred?