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The history of the phenomenon of Łódź Kaliska presented in a Monty-Pythonesque style. Łódź Kaliska is among the most eminent and original artistic groups in Poland, which has been continuously active on the avant-garde scene for 44 years.
A peasant harnesses his young wife to a plow. He disciplines her with a whip and fist. Meanwhile, fantastic creatures fly over the area – winged young men. Love will give her wings.
A continuation of the style found in Such A Nice Boy I Gave Birth To is applied to another family situation: the son has a wife and child now.
Staying at a fancy resort, Wladyslawa Majewska is mistaken as a male guest when she is dressed in a skiing outfit. The manager offers her, thinking she is a he, a job as a dancer to entertain the unescorted ladies who frequent the hotel. Wladyslawa goes along with the offer, and keeps the old ladies dancing but falls in love with the best-looking male guest in the process, who thinks she is a man.
About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.
The protagonist of the film, a radio reporter, is a type of person who does not recognize any ethical standards on the way to a professional career. He builds successes in his journalistic career on the misfortune of another man - a woman who loves him. However, the tragic end of this procedure breaks him down and prompts him to take a desperate step.
Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland. The script is based on a part of Mikołaj Smyk's diary, the director's grandfather. The biographical objects used in the animation, such as an authentic headscarf, Polish and Russian books, the copy of Mikołaj Smyk's diary and photographs help situate the story in its original environment.
An account of a bus pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine in Licheń organized by the artist's mother.
Silesians are going to Germany for a return visit! Jorg and Andreas will be forced to put Gienek, Jurek, Marzena, Irek and Maryjan's colorful father… In Poland remain the neighbors, Grejta and Jerzy, who guard the household and dogs. A former churchman becomes the new mayor and has trouble making various decisions, and his mentor Fr. Maryjan is in Germany for a week. Maybe the new churchman will help the mayor.
While spending his vacation caring for dying grandmother, 16-year-old Maks unexpectedly falls in love with his sister, Emma. The closer they get to each other, crossing erotic boundaries, the more something disturbingly inhuman awakens in their grandmother.
An elderly man is attacked in his home by a group of nationalists
A bittersweet story about love, fate and coincidence. Mika, a 30 year-old journalist, is frustrated with her job and non-existent love life. After a car accident, her self-confidence has been shattered. She believes that life is just about luck, especially love life. She meets different people, but will her and her soulmate's paths eventually cross? Can Mika really influence her fate?
Being ashamed of your identity in Poland has its consequences on many LGBTQ+ people in the country. Kamil and Mateusz have an honest conversation about their identity which unexpectedly becomes a reason to explore a completely different world. “A Few Things I'd Like to Tell You” is an intimate image of two men relationship where they both support each other. Will this change backed by a professional performer help them escape their problems?
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year after the start of the war in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go to Kyiv, for the first time during the war. On the way to Kyiv, she learns that her family is not in Kyiv, and will come only the next day. Therefore, she meets her friend Kyryl, with whom she spends the day, as she used to before the war. In the morning, Lera meets her mother and sister, and finally feels at home. But she still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
Next Sunday explores the unrealized potential for local residents of Tripoli that is inscribed in the unfinished space of the Rachid Karami International Fair, locally called The Maarad. The film follows a group of teenage boys who used to enter the space illegally (or better said: half-legally) to ride BMX bikes, practice gymnastics and learn tricks. It became an important part of their individual histories, hopes and dreams.
Short film that was later expanded into a feature film with the same name.
Polish comedians Rafał Pacześ and Katarzyna Piasecka hit the stage at Warsaw's Klub Hybrydy for a night of funny anecdotes and sly jokes.
The process of building a ship at the shipyard named after the Paris Commune in Gdynia. The protagonist of the film is the ‘Aleksander Zawadzki’ ship. The work of the mind and hands of a man, but also a majestic piece of art.
A psychology student believes that the knowledge and experience she has gained at university give her the right to act independently. She begins psychotherapy sessions with a group of students. Unfortunately, they end in failure.
Robert, a young actor living a life of lost relationships. A day on a film set, his obsessive roommate Basia follows him to make him see her breakdown. Quietly he watches as they're taking her away.
A couple of strangers traveling through a pandemic landscape.
A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.
This cartoon documentary shares trivia and fun facts about animals who break world records, from super-clean mice to ants who are always pregnant.
A group of actors centered around one charismatic director are getting ready to compete for work on a new film. They all want to get closer to him and wil do anything to make it work.
Stasio Tuchala, old bachelor, resident of Sucha Wolka, after his sister left for America, lives alone. Because he can not cope with the farmwork, his friends decide to get him married. Stasio already attracted two girls from his village and Ukrainian Vera, but he dreams of Miss from colorful magazines. Matrimonial ad that Stasio, Albert and Henry put in the press, has nothing to do with reality, Stasio is NOT a handsome, dark haired, and wealthy. Meanwhile, the mayor Sucha Wolka seriously offended gang leaders from the neighboring village Mokra Wolka and on Sunday the village is expecting a retaliation ...
The colorful merry-go-round of the world is spinning faster and faster, bringing a veritable kaleidoscope of sensations and triggering a cascade of desires. Busy and lost in everyday life, we forget not only about others, but even about ourselves. In the program: the story of Maciek - a smiling, energetic sociologist from Gdansk.
Two soldiers discuss the future in a small café. Their conversation is interrupted by an elegant French woman who visits the café.
Sculptor Paul travels to the Black Sea resort. There he meets a German student of Slavic studies, Heidi, with whom he starts a romantic affair. They live in the campsite. He does not take this relationship seriously, but for the girl Paul is the first great love. Soon he accidentally discovers an illicit drug trafficking. Without a second thought, he takes the opportunity to get more cash - he takes over the goods and demands a ransom gang of twenty thousand dollars. Heidi then disappears...
A dilligent portrayal of the railway community depicts the mundanity of a pensioner's life set against lively scenes from his workplace, in the form of memories or dreams. (FILMAFFINITY)
Czarek, a young athlete with dwarfism, trains for the Polish Weightlifting Championships. When his ambition clashes with systemic limits, he confronts a conflict beyond the sport itself.
Marcin is a professional soldier who is offered to participate in a mission in Kosovo. His partner Kamil doesn’t agree with the departure, though, so he puts his partner in a position where he has to choose between the love of his life and a career opportunity. And the whole situation gets even more complicated when Marcin’s mother gets involved and makes any decision completely impossible
The story of a valued professor named Szop. One day, a scientist commissions a routine study. A computer analysis shows that, on the basis of the study that Szop is dead. The professor and his colleague, Swalski, try to explain the unusual result.
A sperm whale is lying by the Vistula River in Warsaw. This absurd situation stirs and mobilizes the local community and tourists who gather by the riverbank. On one hand, the whale is a metaphor for the disruption of the ecological system, but at the same time, it's a medium to study people’s reactions to the death of a huge mammal. We observe a sociological portrait of the audience. People speculate and wonder, offer help or ask questions. The sperm whale appeals to everyone, regardless of their social or cultural background. The movie is a complicated riddle. It depicts how close we are to a man-made ecological disaster – what more needs to happen to stop global pollution?
The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.
Siberia, contrary to people’s first association, is not a deserted land covered with snow. During the one-year stay, Polish documentary filmmakers collected materials that make up the image of the modern industrial area of the North.
After discovering a demonic talisman in his pocket, an unsuspecting teacher is possessed and wreaks deadly havoc on the entire school.
The documentary takes the viewer to the Polish countryside of the mid-1970s. Andrzej, Leszek, Eugeniusz, Ryszard and Jerzy are young men who dream of finding their other half. The film's protagonists have advertised in newspapers and talk frankly and without inhibition about their search and the dilemmas it involves. The picture is complemented by the statements of their parents, who watch their sons' efforts to start a family with love but also concern. The film also gives an insight into the problems farmers face - not only love but also hard work on the land awaits the chosen one of their hearts. "Either get married or quit this farm", "What's one to do on a farm?" - say the characters in the film. The countryside is not a place made for living alone.
A documentary devoted to the paintings of Nikifor Krynicki, who was a representative of primitivism.
A commentary on the management of public opinion, the spread of fake news and the rebellion of the individual against the general. Dawid, a former war reporter, has 24 hours to write an investigative report about the death of a couple of refugees from the Middle East and a Polish soldier on the border with Belarus. During the investigation, however, he discovers that the official version of events presented in the media differs from what actually happened. The pressure to write a fixed version is mounting.
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Pascal lives with his parents in a city full of smog. So many missteps and accidents happen in a dense fog. The obscure smog can easily hide people's secrets and infamous... insects. The discovery of one of these mysteries change Pascal's life forever.
Wanda, the young wife of the famous psychiatry professor Stanislaw Czelawa, has been living a nightmare for a long time - every night she is harassed by a repulsive man, twinned with her husband. Unable to bear it, the desperate woman turns for help to another psychiatrist and hypnotist, Dr. Stocki. Not quite believing her, Stocki puts her under hypnosis. Observing the Czelaw house, the man discovers the truth.
During World War I in 1916, Austrian soldier Dodek Wędzonka is mistaken for a Russian lieutenant and freed by a Russian patrol, only to be quartered at the seized Majewo estate - home of his own superior, Lieutenant Majewski.
A dramatized retelling of the life of the Romanticism painter Piotr Michałowski.
A young couple is waiting to receive an apartment.
Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.
After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.
A man and a mouse move to a village by the sea where everyone has a pet. Their first morning in town, the man puts the mouse in his shirt-front pocket and sets out on a walk. People with parrots on their heads or leading a cow, a camel, or a whale all shun him once they see the mouse. So, the man returns home, puts the mouse in a box, closes the lid, and builds himself a new animal companion. He takes it for a walk. Is the mouse forgotten?
Two Bulgarian intelligence agents arrive in Warsaw on a secret mission. Their task is to recover a microfilm containing compromising material on the Bulgarian intelligence service. They must face the ambassador's Siamese twin, who is a traitor. Danger lurks at every turn.