Discoveries from Poland World Cinema

Paweł, a young boxer, and his half‑sister Julia inherit a flat, offering hope to leave the orphanage for their first real home. Their quest for stability tests their bond and confronts adult challenges.

War is never far away, as Wojciech Młynarski wrote. The residents of Shestovitcha, a village liberated from under the Russian occupation, are trying to move on with their lives. Nevertheless, it is difficult to live in peace when danger is lurking just behind the corner. A terrifyingly true portrayal of people who are trying to remain normal in abnormal times.

Piotr has a wonderful family, a beautiful house, and decent earnings. When the world is struck by the pandemic, everything changes. Piotr is required to home quarantine. He isn't worried, as he's feeling great. In fact, he's looking forward to spending two weeks with his family. But his wife – afraid of contracting the virus – takes the children and goes away to stay at her mother's place. Although she leaves the house stocked up on food, she forgets to replenish toilet paper. How will a guy who's never had to use a washing machine cope on his own? Will he realize how much he's taken his family for granted?

The unity of past and present time is shown in a symbolic way. The basic material of the film is archival footage taken by cameramen during the Warsaw Uprising (from the WFD archives) and shots of today's Warsaw, especially the Powązki Cemetery on All Saints' Day.

Children from the orphanage hijack a tram on New Year's Eve. They drive it between Silesian cities on long journeys, meeting different people. During this night, moments are difficult, fun and scary, but unforgettable. In the morning, the children are picked up by a police patrol.

A tense, compact adaptation of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Bridge (Polish title Most) recreates the surreal final moments of a condemned man awaiting execution during the American Civil War. In Majewski’s hands, the familiar twist — reality folding into illusion — becomes a lean, visual meditation on death, perception, and the fragility of hope.

A mini history of human development. Civilization - military - architecture - fashion. The set design and look of the characters change together with the epoch. From the point of view of the individual, progress is not a clearly positive notion.

Jan Gębski’s camera carefully observes how one of the last remaining heroes of the Warsaw Uprising struggles with the reality. The elderly woman’s closest companion is her cat.

A middle-class Polish make a trip across the Balkans, heading for a refugee camp on the Macedonian-Greek border.

A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.

Nina has just been prescribed her first contraceptive. A sixteen-year-old is ready for love, but not for sex. And yet her mother's latest love affair, like her work in the sex industry, embodies exactly what Nina despises.

A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.

Andrzej Wajda documentary about Polish film.

It's not easy to find the one - especially when you are shy. And if we fall in love at first sight, is it worth to trust Cosmopolitan and seek advice from a seer?

The film recalls the most important facts related to the more than 60-year history of the struggle for the truth about the crime committed in 1940 against 21,000 Polish officers, prisoners of war of the NKVD.

A detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, and continues to happen again and again - even in modern times. First-time filmmaker, Paul Bachow, travels around the world and taps into a vast knowledge base of historians, psychology practitioners, and data derived from countless interviews with experts from around the world.

The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.

During World War II, a Polish correspondent goes to South Scotland, where he learns about the history of a Polish pilot.

Nicolaus Copernicus and two scholars, Czesław and Miłosz, stroll through the streets of Frombork, talking and eating gingerbread cookies. When Copernicus presents his theory about the solar system to the others, the scholars agree with him and support his words. However, when Nicolaus plans to publish his theory and share it with the world, Czesław and Miłosz change their minds and try to prove him wrong.

"Animating human-size puppets, in D.I.M. Skrobecki explores the relationship of a couple secluded in an apartment. Their meaningless life has a single justification and tenderness: they feed a little bird that comes from time to time to the windowsill." -Giannalberto Bendazzi: "Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times"

Rex is a witness of an accident - a dog was hit by a car. Rex transports it to his own place using a pram, he puts a cast on its paws and prepares some wheels for a walk. When Rex feels that his patient is OK, he asks a cat to attack the dog. Rex wants to make it run.

Housewife, or modern Sisyphus of the female kind. A woman saves herself from the stupefying influence of the wheel of household chores by escaping into joyful creativity - jigsaw puzzles from junk.

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.

Such birthday concerts are already a tradition, originating from the very old times. It was 1989, When the group was the first time celebrating its jubilee, the 10th anniversary. Already in the trophy. And then They made calendar jubilees less round, so a little with a grain of salt, but soon walking The juniper has stopped. Only the third cross on the neck of Jam caused the musicians to return to such a form Honoring the passage of time and your existence on stage. It was already a new Poland, a new Jem and the new Spodek, because two From the three great birthday benefis, it was there. The participants know about it, but also those who in Silesia At that time, it was missing, because each of these benefis had an effective audio/video documentation.

"I achieved everything I wanted in life," says the outstanding Polish actor Andrzej Seweryn, and then he takes us on a dynamic journey through subsequent professional challenges, which he still takes up with youthful verve. This is not a biography summarizing his artistic achievements - hundreds of outstanding film and theater roles, political activities or many years as director of the Polish Theater.

There is nothing greater than having a dinner with the family. Although it resembles a looped scenario that repeats itself endlessly. Recited with flying colors for many long years.

A story about the inhabitants of Warsaw's Praga from the late 1970s. There are representatives of the social margin among them, but there are also a collector of works of art, an ex-peasant who keeps raising peacocks, an old woman collecting dolls. This extremely colorful company lives in old, demolished tenement houses.

A short news reel documentary about poster art.

The drama of a young military pilot whose illness prevents him from flying and condemns him to a hopeless existence. Major Grela hoped to become the head of the test pilots' group. However, the higher command appointed Horycki, his former colleague and friend. They had both once been in love with Krystyna, Grela's current wife. A sharp conflict arises between them, both professionally and privately.

Julita and Stacy have parted ways, but now the girls meet again at the stud farm where Julita works with her mother. Stacy comes from abroad for an important competition. Infatuation returns, but is it worth tearing open old wounds for it?

‘Keczupowo’ is a fictional kind of fever dream re-imagination, based upon memories and connections of Natalia’s place of birth, ‘Włocławek’ Poland. She grew up in Belgium but has spent a lot of times visiting the city together with family. The film is a representation of her double-sided feeling every time she visits the place, which is nostalgic sentiment on the one hand, and alienation, eeriness or loneliness on the other. ‘Keczupowo’ is Polish for ‘Ketchuptown’.

On the one hand, it's apocalypse, and on the other, it feels like any other day. Something bizarre is throbbing on an invisible layer.

A young girl wants to have a dog, but must instead settle with a dog toy, which she treats as if it was alive.

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

A satire on the trading system in People's Poland. A husband and wife watch a TV commercial for a cake that can be made and baked very quickly. The wife dreams of a new stove, while the husband dreams of something sweet, so he goes to town to buy ingredients for the cake.

After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there.

Anna tries to prevent her husband suffering from tuberculosis.

Serafin, a young and cheerful muskrat, is one of the inhabitants of Wicker Bay. He quickly befriends Ogryzek, a resolute and somewhat pedantic rat who teaches him about adult life.

An old beekeeper and a little boy look into a hive. A brown-yellow shape and a black ball of a motile swarm begin to move on the surface of the screen. Physical reality turns into abstract forms.

The plot of the film would be based on the story of the 12 signs of the zodiac undergoing a metamorphosis, painted by the outstanding Lithuanian painter and composer of the modernist era, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

Sometimes, a computer game transcends its virtual boundaries. For those unfamiliar with esports, this movie offers an accessible and engaging explanation of the phenomenon behind League of Legends.

December 13th, 1981 – General Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland to put an end to the revolt by “Solidarnosc” (Solidarity), the first and only free union in the Eastern Block. It was a genuine people’s movement that counted more than 10 million members in Poland, and that met their aspirations of freedom, social justice, and democracy. The coup d’état was supported by Moscow and created a veritable diplomatic uproar, mobilizing public opinion around the world to come to the aid of Poland.

Experimental Polish short in which "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" from 1895 is reenacted and shown from different points of view.

Accompanied by commentary by Jan Kott and Tadeusz Makarczyński, together with neoclassical music of Witold Lutoslawski, this is a typical propaganda film that was supposed to confirm the rights of the Polish Recovered Territories (from Germany) in the west.