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The dog meets a crocodile in the sewer and invites him home so he can wash and eat before dog’s owner returns. The crocodile tells him his story and learns that he is not so scary, and that he will live in a zoo better than in the sewer.
The beautiful highlander Halka falls in love with the rich nobleman Janusz and rejects the adoring highlander Jontek. However, he soon finds out that the lord's love promises cannot be trusted. This is the plot of one of the most famous Polish operas in a nutshell. Konstanty Meglicki's Halka is one of three Polish pre-war adaptations of Stanisław Moniuszko's work.
Robert Skalski passionately confesses Ludwice's love and begs her to marry him. The girl resists because she does not want to conflict with her uncle and aunt who raised her.
Record of a dam construction in a remote area of Poland.
Słonko is an average guy who earns a living by appearing daily in the weather forecast. He is responsible for the place on the map where it is supposed to be sunny. Nothing special, in other words, he acts as a backdrop. And so it has been every day for several years. He is fed up with this monotony and boring job, he wants something more from life. One day, he decides to break out of this gray reality. A coincidence causes the Sun to jump from the screen into the interior of a "black box." There, he finds a surreal world full of metal, cables, and electronic components. It turns out that the Sun is not alone in the TV. The escape begins. ..
Experimental short film by Wojciech Bruszewski.
This is a short story woven into the scenery of Kraków's students' festival. The camera is always at the center of events and is accompanied by the main character – Jurek, in search of his sister. In this film, events are part of a larger whole. The main role in this film is filled by Andrzej Paczkowski, now a known historian.
The action takes place in St. Mary's Square and Oleandry. The essential scenes were shot on the St. Mary's Tower and the scaffolding surrounding it - due to the renovation being carried out at the time. It was here that the first rapprochement between the lovers took place, and here - at a height of several dozen meters - the rivals fought a fight with tragic consequences, ending in the death of the seducer.
Mirosława Marcinkiewicz's short film made at the Łódź Film School. Lost
A chance meeting of a cleaner from Ukraine and a former star of the Polish music scene leads them to record a joint song about love.
Kazimierz Kutz's student film. While playing soldier a boy is told to stand guard, but his friends finish the game, forget all about him, and go home. He stays there into the night not daring to move from the spot because he'd given his word of honor he wouldn't move until ordered.
A miniature film set to classical music. A cart drives down a gray city street. Behind the houses, instead of the sun, a spinning wheel emerges, from which a broken thread falls into a nearby puddle. A little girl runs down the street. Suddenly, she stumbles and falls into the puddle. Tears from the animated houses fall into the puddle. The drops of tears "revive" the thread, which transforms into a fairy-tale skein and weaves a new dress for the girl. A spinner with a spinning wheel appears and weaves colorful strands around everything. Flowers bloom in the windows of the houses, and the gray walls are covered with vivid colors. The girl, carried by the skein, soars above the houses of what is now a colorful town.
Humoresque based on a text once presented by Andrzej Warchał at Krakow's "Piwnica pod Baranami". A private and a corporal jump out of an airplane. During the flight it turns out that they forgot their parachutes. So they discuss how to fall and land. The order of landing seems to be the most important. The conversation continues until it is interrupted by a violent contact with the ground. Originally made in 1968.
Katowice, September 1939. The Germans are trying to gain an observation point - a parachute tower defended by scouts.
Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. One day, 514's wish comes true... but was this what he really wanted?
Augmentality immerses us in a future where humanity is hooked on augmented reality, allowing them to customize every visual aspect of their lives. But beneath this flawless illusion lies one aspect that steals people's sleep. No matter how much control they gain, they can't escape how others perceive them in their own augmented worlds. As the addiction to this visual paradise intensifies, the world around them deteriorates and society spirals into decadence.
In 2019 she became famous again when the decision to censor her works taken by the Director of the National Museum spurred a wave of protests. But the art of Natalia LL was controversial as early as in the 1960s. In collaboration with her husband, an artist himself, she created art that was shocking at the time.
The ‘Żywe kamienie’ (meaning living stones) from the title are architectural monuments that convey the history of past generations. In this respect, Kraków is a special city - it was not only the royal capital of Poland, but also a city of Jews.
Animated interpretation of the Bizet opera, second in a trilogy.
Letters from her husband are bringing Danuta (Helena Norowicz) back to the feelings she once had for him, and she finds herself reliving her youth.
Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over her, he hires a village wise-woman, Palchowa, to tend to his Mother in her last moments.
Stress accompanies a little man from the moment he is born. Separation from his mother, school discipline, and domestic problems strengthen the feeling of stress. Some children are heard in time, others remain silent forever. Child suicides are a fact.
A collective, moving self-portrait of Polish painters of the turn of the century, composed of paintings presented at the exhibition "Symbolism in Polish art" at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1985.
"Sleepincord" raises the issue of dream. Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety.
A Polish documentary film from 2011 telling the story of the English aristocrat Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless, known as Princess Daisy. The film presents memories of her life as recounted by her nurse and caretaker Dolly, and is the only documentary film devoted to this figure. The film contains fictionalized elements, commentary by historians, and scenes shot in places that were important to Daisy, such as Książ Castle and the Castle Museum in Pszczyna.
Two sisters and two different attitudes towards the loss of their mother. Magda and Basia come to their mother's house to organize a funeral and clean the house. The cool and rational Magda does not understand the emotional older sister...
Short documentary about the rising of Orthodox Church after years of forced atheism in USSR.
On the eve of his wedding, patriot Jerzy Mirski undertakes a daring mission to steal vital military documents from the Russian headquarters, but is gravely wounded and finds refuge at his beloved Hanka’s estate. Pursued relentlessly by a Cossack patrol, he refuses to reveal the documents’ hiding place even at the cost of his own life.
A metaphorical tale. Rumour has it there is an old man living in a forest, alone but with a great fortune earned in Africa. Having overheard the gossips, two Roma boys decide to verify the story. One of them has a premonition that the trip may not end well.
Report from the trial of Nazi criminals before the international tribunal in Nuremberg.
Life in Krakow goes slowly. Pigeons fly, and the lady with the Krakow’s pretzels waits for the hungry tourists. HE watches over the security of the city, but the danger is hanging in the air.
The strikes of 1976 in Radom. Arrests affected not only the strikers, but also ordinary passers-by who stood in the way of the militia. The documentary presents the stories of women who demanded justice—an explanation of the true circumstances surrounding the deaths of their husbands, sons, and brothers, who were beaten to death in 1976.
Seven individuals read excerpts from essays on various global issues. This is the only time we see them together. From the sun-drenched hall, we move to different parts of the city which provide background for their stories.
Jan Polaski, after graduating from an aviation school, returns to his hometown as an aviation officer.
Penis-shaped men make a joint attempt to push an old carriage down the hill. They manage to remove all the wheels of the carriage, one by one. Then, collectively, they lift the wheelless vehicle and carry it down. The year of the film's production – 1979 suggests that the director wanted to mock the decline of real socialism. The system was weakened by the political and economic crisis. The collective effort of the men was a reference to the growing opposition.
The backstage of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. Craftspeople from workshops and wardrobe are preparing costumes and set design for the upcoming premiere of one of the most important shows of the season. The film sheds light on the invisible work of dozens of people who are usually overshadowed by the artists performing on stage.
In John B. Benitz’s documentary Behind the Lines, you might end up questioning whether history should just be written by historians. Based on Andrew Carroll’s New York Times best seller Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters and inspired by a subsequent stage play, Benitz’s film tells the story of Carroll’s life mission to travel the world seeking out war letters. Over the past 25 years, he has preserved more than 200,000 correspondences from troops, veterans and their families, dating from the American Revolution to present day Ukraine. In Behind the Lines, we accompany Carroll on his continuing quest; one of fact finding but also tremendously emotional. This is captured evocatively when letters written by soldiers, some of whom having lost their lives only a day after having written them, are read by various actors such as Laura Dern and Gary Cole. The film is narrated by Annette Bening. – Adam Schartoff
An anti-war film. Men doing exercises transform into soldiers, who in turn transform into deadly missiles. Rows of military crosses of merit on the uniforms of decorated soldiers - when turned 180 degrees - become cemetery alleys full of gravestone crosses. Exceptionally interesting visual setting.
In this documentary Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, gives a daily account of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942. Edelman’s amazingly thorough, vivid and distinct memories are augmented by Dylewska’s mesmerizing, poetic use of slow motion and freeze-frame techniques applied to documentary material including Nazi footage of Jews about to be deported to Treblinka.
A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź.
An angel appears above a gray, large-panel housing estate. He is noticed by a violinist and a party dignitary. For the musician, the angel is a source of inspiration; for the man of power - a pretext for a cynical political game.
A group of friends get lost on a trip in the woods and accidentally come across an ancient ceremony (Kupala Night). Horror with themes of Slavic demonology.
In the crystal clear waters off the coast of Borneo, a unique way of life threatens to disappear forever. For generations, the Badjao were oceanic nomads, living in harmony with the sea as fishermen and free divers. Nowadays, however, only a few Badjao remain, like Alexan, who still remembers the old ways. He hopes to pass his knowledge along to his ten-year-old nephew Sari, but time and opportunities are running out. Sari loves the sea, but it can only offer a hard life of subsistence fishing, while the nearby tourist resort sings a siren song of easy money.
Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.
A teenage boy attempts to define himself and answer the most important questions troubling him.