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- In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
- Entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
- Edward Popielski, a detective of extraordinary intellect and physical strength but tormented by epileptic visions that help him in his investigations, is specially appointed by the gods to avenge crimes in the city of Lviv in 1930s Poland.
- The principal photography of the Polish-Hungarian film SAINT by Sebastian Buttny is taking place in Poznan and Gniezno. The action of the film takes place in the 80's, Poland. Andrzej Baran, a Citizens' Militia lieutenant, is assigned to the most difficult case he has ever had to face in his career. Nobody seems to want him to solve the mystery .
- A janitor in Warsaw stumbles upon a time-traveling device in his apartment and gets stuck in the past while the woman he's been seeing looks for him.
- A father returns from America after abandoning his family. He struggles with alcoholism which destroys his family. The son is forced to mature as his childhood ends.
- Lova (Tomasz Zietek), a young and handsome motorcycle speedway champion, fights his troubles and fears, haunting him both at home and at the track. His close-to-poverty life becomes even more difficult as he meets Roma (Jagoda Porebska).
- The story about the magical world of children's imagination, growing up and improving the world lightly reflects the most important treasures of Janusz Korczak's philosophy: every child should be loved, respected for their boundaries and allowed to dream. I guess every child wants to have magical powers. What if this dream comes true? Kajtek, a teenage boy with an exceptionally rebellious temperament, grows up with his father and grandmother. The class prankster one day discovers supernatural abilities. An unusual talent combined with the boy's unruly character mean big problems not only for the school, but also for the entire city. Magical powers take control over Kajtek's life, and from now on he deals with both the disliked teachers and the entire school community, gaining sympathy and fame among his peers. The situation begins to get complicated when the forces of good and evil begin to compete for the boy with magical abilities. Which way will the young wizard go?
- The mid-20th century in communist Poland. Adam lives with his mother, who is persecuted by the state security service. Adam's father fought in World War II as a pilot, defending Britain, and has not been heard from since. It's not clear if he stayed in England or returned and is hiding to avoid persecution. Packages and postcards arrive from him, but Adam, who has never seen his father, suspects someone else is sending them. At school he keeps dreaming that his father will one day land in the sports field at his school in his Spitfire, raising dust from which he will emerge alive, heroic and magnificent. One day, as the boy is watching Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" at the cinema, he is transported to the young Brigitte Bardot's dressing room and her world of film and music stars. Maestro Majewski's latest film, based on his novel "Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful", in which he settles accounts with his youth, childhood, and all that Poland meant to him.
- A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.
- Two kids bring in a rock-and-roll fugitive from another world pursued by merciless bounty hunters, and in order to save his life they have to find a way to send him back to where he came from.
- A 6-year-old Astra tries to stop her sister from taking part in a dangerous mission. However, when Anna needs help, the little girl will go into space on her own without hesitation.
- Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.
- Maria is dead, but alive. She committed suicide, but remains in her living body for several days. It is not known how she killed herself. He is looking for the causes of his own death. He watches what the world looks like without her. Preparations for the funeral, post-mortem examination and disinfection in the apartment are underway. Maria is invited to a party for the dead. He gets into a row with a fortune teller who foretells the future only if someone has it. The family complains that Maria is alive since she died. They believe she lived badly and died badly. Maria wants to interrupt her own funeral. She begins to believe that she is dead, but feels different.
- The hero of the film will be one of the participants of the Radom events, Priest Roman Brazier, murdered by unknown perpetrators in 1976.
- The film follows the phenomenon of creation and development of independent rock scene in Wroclaw until today.
- In the winter of 1903, a group of characters painted by the master escapes from Jacek Malczewski's paintings.
- Poland, 1982, the politically heated days of communist martial law. Two coal miner brothers react differently to the oppressive police state. While Tadek prefers to retreat into neutrality, Janek chooses active engagement in the democratic underground. When Janek asks Tadek to store some anti-government leaflets on the second anniversary of Solidarity's 1980 strikes, he triggers a spiral of events that will have everyone's allegiances and characters severely tested.
- The surveyor Alvan and his wife Emma spend time in the woods. One day woman disappears. When she comes back, nothing will be the same anymore.
- World War II is in progress. In a Silesian forest a Polish partisan called Rysiek gets an order to execute a German officer. The commander assigns a youth to help Rysiek with the task. That is the same youth that wakes him up from a nightmare earlier in the day. The action does not seem to be a challenge for Rysiek, but how is he to know that thanks to that action the ghosts of the past will come to haunt him and the nightmare he was woken out of has not come to an end. The film addresses the important issue of the separation of siblings as a result of secret adoption. History has been deliberately moved into one of the most heinous periods in history to illustrate the harmfulness of this procedure and its cruel consequences.
- It is not just another documentary on "wonderful" medical properties of cannabis. It is the record of people's struggle to try it as a last resort, when pharmaceuticals no longer provide relief to their ill beloved ones. However, severe diseases are not the only enemy as the ignorance and indifference of decisive people becomes an equally dangerous issue. Poland has one of the harshest anti-drug policies in the European Union. In a country located in the middle of the continent with almost forty millions of citizens, the possession and cultivation of marijuana can lead up to eight years of imprisonment. The Polish law does not recognize the medical use of cannabis. Hence, severely ill patients, who would like to support themselves with the controversial substance, are treated as criminals. Despite the fact that there is a legislative loophole, which allows the import of medical cannabis from abroad, only few patients have such permission. A huge amount of them use it illegally. A Polish journalist and director, Jan Bluz takes a look into medical underground where patients, their caretakers, and activists not only risk their freedom to improve their or their beloved ones' lives, but also fight with the bureaucratic system to change ridiculous and out-of-date policy. Due to persistent Polish politicians and public officials who claim that cannabis is not researched enough to make it available to patients, filmmakers reach out to the most notable foreign scientists in the field and travel to the countries, where medical cannabis is legal or is emerging from the black market. In the midst of the journey, it appears that the forbidden substance might be life saving for many people, or at least might improve the comfort of living in the last days of the severely sick. The ongoing research and experience of patients show that the list of illnesses where cannabis might be beneficial becomes longer each year. Simultaneously, the Polish state seems to fail and do not react appropriately to the situation where its citizens need a quick change in the law.
- The rich man suffers a road accident. Instantly, like a present Job, he loses his fortune, family and health. During the state of clinical death, his soul fights for the deliverance from suffering, for understanding.
- A young, aspiring painter goes through creativity crisis which makes him try out extreme experiments to renew his relationship with art.
- Commissioner Edward Popielski is expelled from the Lviv police when an epileptic attack causes him to lose a criminal chase and his temper on the police chief. He becomes a Latin tutor to make ends meet. An astrologer, Luba Bajdykowa is found murdered. Next to the victim, the police find Hebrew characters arranged in a strange code. Unable to crack the code the police appoint Popielski on the case. A beautiful Renata Sperling, Popielski's ex-student visits him to request his help with finding her employer Countess Bekierska. Another victim is found with a similar code next to her.
- Popielski is privately appointed by Luba's son to find his mother's murderer. Meanwhile Popielski falls in love with Renata and entangles himself into a stormy erotic relationship with her. Popielski, with the help of a young Jew and Leokadia, discovers that the Hebrew code is a mathematical sequence in which each letter is assigned to a number. In the Lviv archives Popielski finds that the names of both victims and the countess add up to the same number - 68.
- Bójko informs Popielski that Renata sleeps with him and is related to Bekierski. Edward doesn't believe Renata when she denies this and she runs away in desperation. Popielski takes revenge on Bójko by beating him brutally. In exchange for his life, he reveals to Edward the secret of the gematria and the magical squares. In a brutal interrogation, Bójko indirectly confesses to the murders. Popielski delivers Bójko to Luba's son who accidentally kills him. Edward devises a cunning plan to frame Count Bekierski for the murder.
- Two Lviv thugs, Zygmunt Hanas and Mosze Kiczales, are trying to find the kidnapper, Elzbieta Hanasówna, Zygmunt's handicapped daughter. Elzbieta is in the hands of a pervert who plays ritual scenes of rape, showering the victim with white flower petals. Edward gets a message from Hanas that Lodzia is in his hands and must find a pervert or she will share his daughter's fate, only that the perpetrators will be his thugs. Edward agrees to work with Hans.
- In the course of further investigation, Popielski receives information that the rapist is probably allergic to the flower identified on Elizabeta's body. He checks a lead, looking for allergies to flowers in a clinic and comes upon the name Gustav. On a strong intuition, Popielski kidnaps Gustav Lewicki, and together with Hanas they try to see if the doctor reacts to the flowers. The test isn't too long and the doctor passes, instead the girl reacts to Popielski's voice. Hanas, looking for the cause, finds in her room, a player playing recordings of the detective's voice and a red balloon used to condition Elizabeta to react with fear to the voice. Lewicki manages to escape.
- Lviv on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The tension of impending extermination infects the inhabitants. At the back of a Jewish pharmacy, a child, Henio Pytka, is murdered. Zaremba finds the body. Anti-Semitic sentiments are emerging in the city. After the trauma of the previous case and the threat to his family, Popielski wants to leave the police. After Kocowski's persuasion and a guarantee of safety for the family, he agrees to lead the case again. Together with Mosze Kiaczales, the Jewish king of the underground, they try to find the killer who is one step ahead of them all the time.
- Popielski, tormented by remorse after the murder of Malecki, goes to a mass for little Henio Pytka. Unfortunately, a second victim appears. The murderer writes a telegram to Popielski, inviting him to play. Popielski suspects that his son Jerzyk may be the victim. There is a confrontation with the murderer, Edward recognizes his face and calls him Herod.
- Herod is not idle, he kidnaps Popielski's son. The situation is getting out of control. You failed, Lodzia did not take care of Jerzyk, Popielski swears revenge on Herod and the whole world. Herod meets Popielski at a closed swimming pool, in his mouth he hid an ampoule with the address of Jerzyk's detention. Popielski kills Herod, but the ampoule is empty. Someone taunted him.
- Popielski lost Lviv, strength and health. Together with a group of repatriates, he goes to Wroclaw. There he meets Eberhard Mock, head of the criminal police in Breslau (Wroclaw). Edward knows him from the Minotaur case. Now, however, Eberhard has to flee Poland, along with a wave of German refugees. Edward decides to exchange Lewicki for Lódz, Mock detects the ruse, but "Bald" has nothing to lose.
- Wroclaw in 1946 is the world after the apocalypse. Everyone seems to be tainted by evil. And yet, in Popielski's poor apartment, someone special appears. Professor Stefanus, a man who absolutely believes in human evolution towards good. He comes to Popielski with a job offer. The detective is to discover who, among the students of Stefanus's secret philosophy course, is the informer. Circumstantial evidence indicates that one of the three girls is a spy.
- Lodzia, after the torture chamber of the UB, ends up in the hospital, she is very ill, and Edward takes care of her with great care. Following her tip, Popielski goes on the trail of three Soviet soldiers. There, his paths cross with Captain Mikhail Chernikov, who, looking for Soviet stragglers, tracks Popielski. The result of this cooperation is the capture of one of Koldashov's rapists and his public execution.
- During the investigation, Popielski finds a trail of a strange Russian - Boroszwili, who hangs around Murawski's house. Following him, he ends up at Szaberplatz, where Boroszwili is doing business with Colonel Bogdylov himself. Now everything is starting to come together. Edward notifies Chernikov, who launches an internal investigation into the case of Boroshvili and Bogdylov.