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The protagonist of the film is Stanisław Niedbalski, a legend of Polish cinematography, cinematographer of several dozen documentary films. Usually, he is hidden behind the camera. However, in this film, we could look at him from a different perspective – a witty and emotional film set star.
REM - the phase of sleep where dreams occur. The film is an attempt to depict dreams in which the forming creatures are devoid of narration. Fragments of the unconscious are mixed up and deconstructed, which leads to the erasure of sleep from memory.
Romek is a shipyard worker. He comes from the village where his parents stayed on the farm. The boy sends them money to modernize the farm. One day, Gośka, his ex-girlfriend, shows up at his place. Gośka ran away from home, entered into bad company. Romek tries to help her.
The action is placed in a cramped flat in Warsaw’s district of Ochota. A father and a son, both bedridden, live in a fascinating symbiosis. The son, a well‑known photographer Bernard ben Dobrowolski, is lying in bed because a chronic condition has deformed his body and immobilized him. The father, Dominik, has recently suffered from a stroke. Now they are taking care of each other and crowds of visitors move through their room.
Europa is a 12-minute anti-fascist film made in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland by surrealists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The film is based on Anatol Stern's 1925 futurist poem Europa. It uses collages and photograms, and articulates the sense of horror and moral decline its makers were witnessing. The film, while long thought to have been lost, is considered an avant-garde masterpiece.
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.
KSW 97: Bajor vs. Scheffel was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday August 24, 2024 at the Jaskolka Arena in Tarnow, Poland.
The communal memory of killings which took place following World War II in the Dębrzyna forest in south-east Poland, featuring accounts from those who witnessed the atrocities as children. It was a time when many people were returning from forced labour in Germany, with no idea that they might become victims of the attacks being perpetrated by the marauding bandits who had overrun the area. The residents of the nearby villages knew what was going on in the forest, yet never intervened because they were “living in fear” themselves.
Medical students begin their rotations at a facility, quickly discovering the enormous responsibility they will bear as practicing physicians.
The chicken lost its head, the cow’s guts are out in the open and blood is spurting all over the screen. The protagonist works at a production line where automated processes have made her approach her job and its effects in a cool-headed emotionless way. Each day, she makes chicken for dinner, but one day, a piece of meat starts staring at her in a strange way. A grotesque animation about what ends up on our plates.
A five-part account of Jan Jakub Kolski's trip to Indochina. The trip was organized by the well-known traveler Jacek Pałkiewicz.
School study, variation on the theme of art, by Jerzy Skolimowski.
A supporter of Legia Warsaw, a member of the subculture of skinheads, discovers his Jewish origin. After several months, he lives like an orthodox Jew. How was his enlightenment and how were people’s reactions?
Famous for having fled the stage of the 1990 Leeds Competition because he felt he didn't deserve to be there, pianist Piotr Anderszewski provides an eccentric subject for an eccentric filmmaker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in this absorbing documentary. Following Anderszewski as he travels from Poland to Hungary by train with his grand piano in tow, the film reveals much about the musical musings of a brilliant performer and artist.
Over a series of still photographs the director asks ordinary people about their lives, hopes and fears.
The film explores the unique relationship between filmmaker's vision of moving image and experimental musicians' improvisation.
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.
A story about a boy who makes a living by extorting compensation from traffic collisions.
An experimental film made for Polish television.
He has made 21 appearances for the Polish national hockey team and has travelled all over the world with the national team thanks to his love of the sport. "Swapping a roll for a hockey stick is just a matter of fitting the hand to the stick," the film's main character modestly comments on his situation. Jozef Derezinski combines playing in ŁKS Rogowo with his daily work in the bakery and kneading thousands of breads and rolls. He does this because he wants to secure his future existence.
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.
Soul Cage is a non-verbal documentary, which shows the process of creation. The specially composed music builds the dramaturgy of the film on equal rights with the image. This “cinematographic sonata” explores the boundaries of documentary and operates with details, shadows and mystery. The film gets inside the art process of Johanna Forsberg, who lives in the north of Sweden. From the raw metal mesh, cold and resistant, through the fragile moment of creation, to the darkness of the workshop – where everything is possible and the creations have their own life and souls.
Antiquarian bookstores are most often associated with the tranquility of visitors and the quiet due to old, dusty books. This one in Warsaw, however, is quite different. One comes here not only for the books, which one has to dig out oneself with difficulty from the piles piled up in a small room. Customers are mostly regulars, who treat it as a place to meet, talk and confide in people who are often strangers. The shrine is managed by Mr. Krzyś. Like a doctor, he seems to know what hurts his customers and what they need. Despite his coarse nature, he makes the conversations in the antique shop go on from morning to evening.
Thirteen-year-old Ewa lives in an emotional twine between two families: biological and adoptive. In order to close her first home, she has to erase the past and traumatic memories.
Simone, Francesca and Olivia are three young people from Bologna who are members of the Communist Renewal Party. Full of life, they take part in demonstrations and party meetings and believe that they can change the current world, dominated by ruthless capitalism and pressure for performance, for the better. At least until the moment when it turns out that it is almost impossible to change the minds of the older party members and the unsuccessful attempts to win new supporters intersect with the difficulties in their personal lives. Comrades is an empathetic time-lapse portrait that shows how the current young generation is losing its illusions, and how difficult it is to keep faith in what we believe makes sense.
Welcome to the set of "The Wolf And The Sheep". The role of the Wolf is played by a woman, the role of the Sheep is played by a man who is - gay. These characters, ambiguous in various ways, are forced into an unambiguous film form (symbolising social conventions). Horror is mixed with slapstick comedy and the protagonists struggle like animals in a black-and-white tape cage.
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 film is a portrait of Jerzy Orłowski, an armless graphic artist. Impressionistic scenes present the protagonist in various situations: when he has to deal with everyday chores, when he jumps into water, skis and draws. Even the simplest activity requires struggle, resilience and outstanding fitness from him. Many takes are in slow motion, contemplating the smallest detail, which the director is so skilfully able to bring out.
Wolves reveal they are really humans in wolf costumes and proceed to eat each other.
The film shows the process of evoking feelings and searching for landscape specificity by recounting events which have taken place in the scenery.
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.
A story about identities – the one we receive at birth, the one we feel, and the one we choose. A movie about the confrontation between dreams and reality and how to live after such a confrontation.
The burner bursts with flame, hot air fills the shell, the aerostat soars. In the gondola of the balloon - Norman Davies. He is not looking for strong impressions, inspiration or beautiful views, but for the right perspective. For a historian, according to the film's protagonist, "should distance himself from his object of research. One must not be too close, too emotionally involved. That's why I will look at Wroclaw from a certain height..." Such a perception of Breslau has been sorely lacking in the distant and near past, especially in the past, the twentieth century - the century in which unleashed nationalisms resulted in the bloodiest spasms in the history of mankind.
The story of the unexplained circumstances surrounding the death of 13-year-old Romek Strzałkowski, who died in Poznań in June 1956.
Paulina (35 years old) is out on parole after serving a prison sentence for the murder of her husband Andrzej. She returns to her hometown to meet her 11-year-old son Nikodem. Jadwiga (55 years old), Paulina's mother-in-law who takes care of Nikodem, does not want this meeting to take place. She is still grieving the loss of her son, Andrzej, and is unable to forgive Paulina for what she did. The film deals with domestic violence and its consequences.
"Hello, Centrala" calls to Mirek from the phone. And Mirek already feels lost, he just wants to report the disappearance of his wife, Big Orange. At every step he is faced with the realities of brutal bureaucracy, and on top of that it is pouring rain outside the window.
a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon
A story about the adventures of a young elephant, sleepy Maciek, and his friends, a hippopotamus and a bear cub.
A fictionalized musical film about the rock band Maanam – one of the most popular music groups in Poland in the 1980s.
"Losing Sonia" shows how a seemingly rigid monastery can be a place full of life, beauty and artistic expression. Sonia, a young nun, paints icons at night and then sleeps until noon. She has a dog, cats, exotic birds, and a body that rebelled against the strict rigour of the monks. Trying to understand her and the meaning of her life choices, we come to Sonia's family, marked with the history of Russia. At the same time, the film is a journey inside the Orthodox church, showing that the deep spirituality of the nation is being reborn. „Losing Sonia" tells the story of an unusual woman who, within the walls of the monastery, is trying to rebuild the values that Russian society has lost under successive political regimes.
Zmijewski decided to persuade a former World War II concentration camp prisoner to "renew" his prisoner number, tattooed on the man's forearm. We see Zmijewski talking to Józef Tarnawa, a 92-year-old former prisoner of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, in a tattoo parlour. Tarnawa answers questions about life in the camp. He is still hesitant, unsure whether a "restored" number will still be authentic.