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The village commune is struggling with huge debt incurred by it's overambitious mayor, who once suffered a personal tragedy. Did this affect his overly ambitious actions? A warm and humorous observation of the life of a village near Krakow.
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.
In a world where Augmented Reality has taken over every aspect of human life, there is a very tempting vision of a return to a technology-free world. The heroes will abandon intelligent lenses and private avatars and move to a place that will irretrievably change their lives.
World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
In April 2014. S/Y Selma Expeditions sailed off for a trip called 'Selma - Antarctica - Perservance'. This one year-long trip started by sailing around Cape Horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to Australia. There, in December 2014, the Selma crew took part in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. After that they started their sail to the coldest and most inacces...
A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.
Short propaganda film. Warsaw's post-war reconstruction as seen through the eyes of the passengers of a red bus.
An animated film about how beautiful the night can be. The moon is shining, the stars are shining, cats are walking on the rooftops, and on Christmas Eve, the first star signals that it's time.
The film encourages people to settle in the so-called Regained Territories. Not only cities and towns but also villages that offer brick buildings and fertile soil. The region of Zielona Góra, Szczecin, Wrocław, Olsztyn – people are wanted there.
The bumblebee wakes up and flies out of the nest, tempted by the scent of the meadow. It jumps from flower to flower until it comes across a lion's maw that wants to keep the bumblebee.
The passage of time during the pandemic has grown to become my character. The world froze, together with the camera on my balcony. I’m watching a shard of the world in a frame and a unique slice of time we have all found ourselves in. I listen intently to abrupt silence. But life that has slowed down continues under my balcony. New characters are moving along like on the stage. I’m asking people questions I cannot answer myself - what will come next?
Documentary about Roma life.
The story of a young ex-con working with handicapped children and the changes that gradually occur in him.
The film is a summary of the series of the same title. It talks about the war between Pruszkow and Wołomin during the last dozen years. It recalls the most interesting figures of the two gangs: "Masa" - Poland's witness number one, "Pershing", "nightingale", "Kiełbasa", "Słowik", "Kiełbasa", "Dziad" and "Wariat".
Daniel goes to a party where he can't find his place. By coincidence, he gets involved in paying a delivery girl for a stack of pizzas.
A pandemic, a time of hard lockdown, when contact with other people is severely limited. The most common means of communication are online conversations, which the director uses to talk to people who, like him, are stuck alone in their apartments.
In a local sports center, a man with a great need to talk but little to say recounts a recent dream to a nearby colleague, with deeply confusing and unexpected results.
Szymon, preparing for the race, spends time in the paddock surrounded by family and friends. However, just before heading out onto the track, he is left alone, enjoying a moment of silence before the start. Film produced as part of the Lighthouse Film Community.
“Hymn of Urban Evenings” is an animation based on a poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. The film portrays the narrator’s sense of alienation from the city — a human figure is cut out from the cold, foreign space which, instead of offering shelter, becomes a grey backdrop to his inner experiences. Image and word come together in a reflection on the city as a colorless, cold organism in which it is difficult to find oneself.
A large monkey from Bielawa, a roaming puma in Lesser Poland, a snow panther seen in Upper Silesia. Toto, the escaped circus tiger, finds himself in the company of wild animals causing panic as wide as Poland itself.
A young biologist searches for the remains of wildlife once present in the infamous Los Angeles River, attempting to show that its ecosystem is still rich and worth fighting for.
A documentary resembling a moving photo album that describes Warsaw's Praga district, which has its own urban legend. The least damaged area during the Second World War, its tenements and wooden houses from the turn of the century remained intact. Praga has its representative part in the Art Nouveau Śródmieście district. Its small-town soul could be seen at the back of the streets, the suburban part may be noticed on the outskirts of the city. Apparently, one could be born and die without leaving the surrounding buildings, Praga satisfied all the needs of the inhabitants. The voiceover mocks the artistic aspirations of "better people" preserved in the facades of the tenements. It appreciates the architecture of the wooden houses, the workshops of old crafters. Through the architecture, the story of the district is told.
Portrait a girl who has been living in Poland for some time with her blind parents and four-legged friends. Although the family seems to be settling in well in their new country, actively participating in events organized by the Ukrainian community, they still long for their homeland.
KSW 98: Paczuski vs. Zerhouni was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday September 14, 2024 at the RCS Arena in Lubin, Poland.
A film from the series "Impressions" made using the technique of painting on celluloid. Using selected paintings by Van Gogh, the author of the film presents the story of the painter's life. From his first impressionist paintings, through paintings that distort the perception of the world. The nervousness of the lines and patches of color, the increasing expression of colors, symbolize the artist's descent into madness.
Katyń. The name of this town was banned during the communist era in Poland. It appeared as an entry in only one edition of the PWN encyclopedia from 1958, where the Germans were blamed for the crimes. When, in 1989, one of the periodicals placed this word on the cover of its April issue in the context of National Remembrance Month, the publication provoked deep and loud outrage from Wiesław Górnicki, a publicist and official advisor to General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The name Katyń had been ruthlessly and consistently erased from the national memory.
The work is an extension of the director’s earlier film Mary Nightmares from 2007.
Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.
Documentary story about the career of Krzysztof Krawczyk, one of the most popular pop music performers on the Polish scene. The artist has many hits to his credit. The film uses unique archival footage.
A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory.
Time of childhood, vacation, and hot summer. Do you remember the feeling when the indefinite number of things to discover, stories to explore, matters to think over made each day seem to last forever? Watching “Behind the Fence” one may discover again these happy moments of childhood.
14-year-old Krzyś lives with his parents in a poor district of a big city. The boy does not find warmth and love at home. A tyrannical father and a submissive mother who takes his side cannot understand their child.
Grand Duke Konstanty marries Countess Joanna Grudzińska. However, Joanna still loves Major Łukasiński, and she agreed to the marriage out of a sense of patriotic duty. Łukasiński is arrested. The November Uprising breaks out. The conspirators capture Belweder Palace. Joanna hides Konstanty from them.
The film focuses on unknown or little-known aspects of the life and work of Zdzisław Beksiński—from the time when he lived and worked in his hometown of Sanok, designing futuristic bus models for a local factory, through the moment when he left the city in a huff, burning some of his paintings (photographs of this event!), through his "Warsaw" period, the death of his wife and son, his return to his artistic roots, and ending with the last minutes before his death.
This documentary wants people to stop armament. Instead of that, we should focus on humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. There is no commentary in the film, some images of the modern world spread the message. On the one hand, it is industry; on the other hand – famine.
A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw spring. The film has no commentary, only music, whose mood and rhythm are closely related to the character of the presented images.
Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love with the priest and soon decides to meet him again to confess her feeling to him.
Nikol and Oliwka have a freedom the rest of teenagers can only dream of. Far from parental supervision and prohibitions, they leave according to their own rules. However, the world of adults is not so simple, as the sisters soon discover. Adolescence can beat everyone. The girls have to take responsibility over their deeds on their own.
Polish avant-garde animation featuring vanishing staircases and desperate searchlights with occasional breaks for a digital clock and a stone face.
The last day in the life of an old man. Women in black pray in front of the chapel, the man comes to the house, shaves thoroughly and goes out into the field.
In this intense and inspiring family portrait, 12-year-old Laura is our guide, and she shows us her life alongside her deaf parents. We will get to see her unusual, challenging, and surprisingly ordinary everyday life.
From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.
A tender and visually imaginative story about how children process tension and seek emotional balance in a world shaped by adult emotions.
A rare early documentary film by Jan Jakub Kolski, exploring the first traces of human existence in Poland. the development of tribal communities, Slavic pagan beliefs and more.
Ber, an alcoholic aspiring to become a veterinarian, and Dr. Howl, a cynical professor posthumously reincarnated in the body of a dog, become entangled in dark mysteries that they must solve.
Natalka is a bright nine-year old narrator of this Silesian story. She lives with her family in the little village of Nieboczowy, which in fact disappeared in 2020 – all the residents were resettled as the area was to be used as a construction site for a retention reservoir.
February 24, 2022: Russian troops are flooding into Ukraine. After the initial shock, how do you respond? For Marine Hugonnier, it was by using her own weapons – film and images – driven by what she describes as, “a desire to create a common front and a common image”. This is her declared agenda. She takes a two-pronged approach, first travelling to the Polish border and filming once she arrives. Then, transporting supplies to Kyiv. Despite the fact these images were shot in March 2022, the troubling paradox is that they already seem to bear the weight of history. This is like a frozen moment, at the point when the war had only just become a threat rather than a reality crushing both bodies and the landscape.