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- Waking up on a cold bus, a group of students start their internships in a remote hotel. Are they prepared for what lies ahead?
- Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the wardrobe wherever they go. They just want to meet people and experience their new surroundings, but are largely shunned or ignored. In some instances, they are shunned even when their presence helps the situation. And in other instances of being shunned, they are beaten. And when they are ignored, the world just keeps going without them, often at the detriment of humankind. Ultimately, the two men, with their wardrobe, make a decision about what to do in light of their experiences.
- Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.
- A brutal and naked portrait of a group of youngsters in a small Swedish village, where bullying leads to fatal consequences. 16-year-old Linus and his best friend are systematically harassing a boy in their school.
- A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
- A modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an unspecified place (in a town at the foot of a cliff, between a garbage dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. Diana, after years of absence, returns to town with milk flowing from her breasts. He has depression and memory lapses. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect - Maj - befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the victim's daughter. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the broken world. When a ponytail entangles them while playing in the river, May knows it's a bad sign.
- A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment. The sound of footsteps on the floor above her brings a reverie of her youth, when she was a beauty, the day a platoon of soldiers marched into her valley. As the day in the basement proceeds, she completes a set of memories that takes her from passion to maternal love to rejection and tragedy. Could there be more awaiting her on this day of remembering the fruit of her womb?
- In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?
- 'Get Away to Pitcairn' is the first feature length documentary film about Pitcairn Island. Director and DOP spent record amount of time on the island (26 days) what helped them to recognize conflicts on the island and complicated relations between Islanders. 'Get Away to Pitcairn' is not a movie focused on impressions from expedition, delight over the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty and it is also not a movie about controversy and painful topics. It is honest and interesting story about two young filmmakers from Poland making their dream come true and meeting one of the most intriguing communities on Earth living on true End of the World.
- Mateusz is a weird man living a peaceful life in a remote country house by the lake. When a stranger is attracted to his beloved sister, his life starts falling apart.
- Students of the Faculty of Acting learn that their diploma film will be made by the famous director Gajda. This news electrifies them - everyone wants to be in the cast. Gajda appears occasionally. He leaves a camera with the students - in his absence, they are to record improvised scenes around the topic of jealousy and rivalry based on the story of Cain and Abel and Balladyna and Alina. Rehearsals begin, we get to know the students' personalities, their dreams and ambitions. Disproportions in acting talents, differences in opinion and wealth, envy, pasts, and complicated emotional relationships are also revealed. We focus on the relationship of four characters: Lukasz/Abel, Olo/Cain, Julka/Balladyna and Alicja/Alina. Professional rivalry overlaps with private rivalry. The line between reality and fiction is slowly starting to blur. The four of them play a game for a role in the film, which turns into a game for everything. At the party, there is a fight between Lukasz and Olo. The fight gets out of control.
- Karolina gets her first major role in the play "Carrie". During rehearsals, it turns out that her predecessor was fired for unknown reasons. The cast miss previous Carrie. Only the director is her ally. However, over time, he begins to manipulate her, taking advantage of her lack of self-confidence. Karolina is losing herself more and more in the role.
- "I'm here!" the main character would like to scream, but she is unable to even ask for a glass of water. She is also unable to get up because the disease chained her to bed and made her dependent on others. She hears everything that her relatives say about her condition. The everyday life of the elderly woman is documented by a fixed camera, directed straight at her face. The other characters: husband, daughter, grandchildren, doctor or priest are only a procession of legs appearing in the frame and sentences spoken in the background. A piercing story about loneliness in the face of death presented from the perspective of a dying woman - although she does not say a word.
- Two teenagers brutally kill their friend. Helped by a police psychologist they are reconstructing the chronological order of events. Gradually, they begin to realize the noxiousness of the murder and its consequences. However, they will not discover the scale of the crime until they meet the victim's parents.
- A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.
- A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and the unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But to whom do we have to prove of what we're made?
- It is the break of dawn. Flickering city lights illuminate from afar. An old fisherman casts his fishing line from a pier into the dark ocean. At a distance stands an obscure figure - the Collector. Armed with a pocket watch and a protocol, his attention alternates between the fisherman and the watch. At 06:30 am, the old fisherman falls flat on the wet, cold ground, and the Collector casually crosses out the old fisherman's name in the protocol. "Indrivaren" tells the story about an anonymous bureaucrat that works for Death - collecting the souls of the departed. Stuck in a monotonous work routine, the Collector starts to question his vocation after an encounter with a terminally ill girl named Amanda. The more he learns about her the more he starts playing by his own rules - a dangerous game that will have unimagined consequences.
- The characters in the movie are a part of a strong and important community - the community of lonely people. When they allow nature to act, their own nature begins to change.
- Amidst the hustle and bustle of Baluty, a young man disguises his true self, lost in the rush of odd jobs. Harsh words and rough streets are all that fill his days. But one person makes him see something more. Together they travel around the city on a scooter, sharing meals and moments. The day of farewell is inevitably approaching.
- It's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events pulls them off their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse. The discovery changes everything - the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope of any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.
- A 17 years young man, a story about child prostitution and pedophilia. The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas. Senior - prostitute nicknamed "Luxury", and junior - beginner, a beggar child with a dog. A local taxi driver, the pimp i n the sex business, with teenagers, offers Luxury job pimp. Will the boy to exploit his younger friend, or help him escape the clutches of child prostitution ...?
- A short-tempered running coach is granted temporary custody of his athletic younger brother from a juvenile correctional facility. The complicated relation between them will have an huge influence on their collaboration towards the common aim.
- Dorothy is a clairvoyant. During the day she works at the Institute of Physics and in the evenings she comes to the Fortune Tellers Anonymous meetings , where she tries to control her gift. Matters get complicated when she meets Sprat - a young, small-time criminal. Now Dorothy will have to deal both with visions of future and with her emotions.
- As a result of a mysterious climatic anomaly, three young people are trapped in their apartment.
- A "neo-giallo" short film about a need to fulfill hidden desires that bursts the characters world from the inside.
- In order to confront her unfaithful partner, a young woman embarks on a lonely journey throughout the city, and with each subsequent street it becomes more stifling and unsympathetic.
- Seemingly blissful, placed in seaside landscapes, story of infatuation with a local skirt chaser and a narcissus - Kuba, who's numerous mischiefs border with teenage psychopathy. - Polish Shorts
- A young dealer gets into an internet affair with a client's girlfriend.
- The protagonist of the documentary is 50-year-old Ryszard Szczepanski, whose passion is bird watching. Inspired by the designs of Leonardo da Vinci, he decided to build a flying machine, powered by human muscle, which he called The Ornithopter. The film is set in the picturesque scenery of Kashubian hills, where Ryszard performs his attempts of taking the machinery to the skies. Realization of his great dream is accompanied by children - the audience his circus performances. Their whispers "will fly - won't fly" are both skeptical and hopeful.
- THE HEAT - 1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.
- A sterile house in the suburbs, its ideal residents and a new caretaker. Who is the girl who does not seem to fit into this world at all, and why does she fear so much in the father of the family? How did she get there, and are her intentions pure? How far can the babysitter go in raising a child? Who is the bad guy in this story? Is "evil" contagious and in what situations is it born? Is it possible to run away from your past and do you really have to run away?
- A surreal comedy about the origins of Tomatina, the annual tomato fight that began in 1945 as a result of a love triangle between Pepe and Alfonsito over the affections of Encarna.
- "Close your eyes and each look at your fears for yourself. They are all justifiable. Each fear is a person from another space. Every fear is a person who is missing something and wants to get somewhere." Five paths on which the characters meet their greatest fears and obsessions. The body, religion, politics, eco-activism, shamanism and disagreement with sanctity as we know it.
- 2020, the virus has taken over the world, people are dying out en masse, the economy is collapsing (or so it looks like). Unemployment is still a current and ignored problem. At such times, something happened in the city called Lodz: they say that a rock fell from the sky and killed a homeless man. Later, by accident, two gray people find her - Milosz and Tomek. Without worrying about the corpse, they take a stone that seems valuable. Thus, they become involved in the police investigation and become suspects in the case. History shows the absurdity of the times we live in - where everything and nothing matters.
- A gloomy milking parlor filled with the sounds of Bach concerts from wheezing loudspeakers is the everyday life of Eric, a cow milker at the Milk Raj cooperative. Eryk is a young boy who abandoned his career as a photographer and lived in an industrial town, away from his family and friends. On the spot he met Marissa, a prostitute in a poor nightclub. They became friends. They both want to find their place in the world.
- The year 1907, a small town somewhere in Poland. Jan, a craftsman making coffins, is a violin virtuoso. He uses his talent by performing with a Jewish band at local celebrations. In life, tough and unyielding, strict even towards his weak wife, he easily comes into conflict with the shopkeeper, Reb Moshe, who runs the band, and decides to leave the band. Soon his wife dies, and Jan, who, although Marta never showed her affection during her lifetime, now experiences a heavy loss. The admirer of Jan's talent is the shopkeeper's young relative - Rothschild, who dreams of playing the violin instead of trading, secretly listening to his idol's playing. She persuades Jan to return to the group, because the miller's wedding is getting ready - but he, bitter and in mourning, refuses. Jan dies, but before he dies, he leaves his violin to Rothschild, who amazes everyone with his playing at the wedding.
- While applying for admission to ancient philosophy classes, Lidia meets a rival, Hania, with whom she fights for the professor's recognition.
- Konstancja is 40, meaning, she should be married with kids and have a hunky lover. But she doesn't have any of those. Instead she has her own business, a soft spot for turkish kebabs and a bunch of unbearably happy girlfriends. Once she decides to change her fate and shows up at doctor Kaludia's office at a sperm bank. When seemingly everything should fall into it's place - to her surprise she falls in love.
- Ziggy is a teenager suffering from bulimia. One day, he learns from his father that he will be sent to the hospital. He decides to prevent this and finds allies in his cause in high school. However, in the meantime, he discovers that something dangerous lives inside him, something that will want to get out at all costs. Will she be able to hide it any longer? The movie is a coming-of-age horror.
- The film tells the story of Halina who decides to face adversities, fight for dignity and justice. Movie is an attempt to deal with the issue of marginalizing the needs of seniors. The compact and thoughtful form of the film allows for various interpretations, and the humor contained in it seems to be bitter in the end.
- Human skin is a leather cover for the interior. We will leave our covers just like abandoned coats in wardrobe.
- Four people of different ages and with a completely different baggage of life experiences are looking for love, success and peace. Everyone does it in their own way to achieve the desired state. But sometimes happiness takes - luck.
- In the old family home, Wanda devotes herself to caring for seriously ill mother. One day Lena, Wanda's younger sister, pays them an unannounced visit.
- In his very first cinematic experience, director Andrzej Wajda presents the work of the ceramists in the small town of Ilza, Poland and the importance of their work which goes through several generations. Works of art made by a small and talented group of ceramists.
- During a game of stacking coins on railroad tracks, an accident occurs. In it's consequence the Rabbit begins to suffer from anxiety disorder, manifested by palpitations and panic attacks. The Wolf, concerned about what is happening to his friend, decides to call for a psychiatrist. When painful injections administered by the doctor do not give any results, the Wolf decides to turn to unconventional remedies . The film tells a story about the most precious things.