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- The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
- Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
- The year 1975. After a few years of forced immigration, the young director Andrzej Zulawski returns to Poland. His situation in Poland is uncertain. What's worse, his family disintegrates: his wife Malgorzata Braunek files for divorce. To strengthen his position Zulawski takes on a titanic task: he plans to make On the Silver Globe, a science fiction epic and the biggest film in the history of the Polish cinema. If he succeeds, he'll win his place in the pantheon of the Polish directors. If he fails, his career in Poland will be over.
- A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
- Young Franciszek witnesses a church painting theft and films it. He is not going to reveal the perpetrator to the police, however, but to blackmail him.
- Gugara in Evenky language stands for the sound of the bell hanging from a reindeer neck. It's one of the few sounds you could hear in taiga, but recently there's almost nothing but silence. Within the last few weeks, Dimitri and Tatiana, elderly herdsmen, have lost their entire herd. What to do in taiga without it? Especially if you are very last herdsmen in the area. Everybody else already has left life in the forest for the nearby Russian village. This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This observational documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient life-ways. Characters of the film are on the different stages of forsaking world which was known us traditional way of life.
- 11-year-old Alla desperately wants to get to an elite ballet academy in St. Petersburg. The jury give her a second chance - in 2 months' time she just needs to improve her proportions.
- It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money - that causes many quarrels and destroys their relationship . One day Iwona receives a great offer from her old friend - Wojtek. He wants her to move to London and start a brand new life.
- Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
- 19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a man running a security business. Accepting this man's offer means becoming a gangster, but this could allow him to a residence permit for his girlfriend Katya.
- An employee at a video rental shop accidentally discovers a recording of a murder. The killer is the husband, the victim is his unfaithful wife. Hoping for easy money, the kid decides to blackmail the husband. Together, they set off to the coast, where the killer keeps his saving in a bank deposit. They are followed by two rather incompetent cops.
- Inhabitants of a derelict living quarter in Lódz struggle with poverty, lack of prospects, contempt and oblivion.
- A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns.
- A young girl living in her own fantasy world and a gangster on psychiatric observation meet and fall in love in a mental asylum.
- A wild ride through the nightlife of the postindustrial city of Lódz, well-known for its unemployment and lack of opportunities for young people, who often head to the nearby Warsaw. We can see it through their eyes.
- Moving story about crossing the boundaries of ones aspirations in order to fulfill ones dreams.
- Ksawery is a young gay man who performs as drag queen in a Warsaw nightclub. Karolina is Jewish and seems to be his agent. Jan is Ksawery's lonely grandfather, who's been hiding a dark secret which the couple wants to reveal.
- Wiera Gran was a popular Polish-Jewish singer who managed to survive the Holocaust. However, all of her later life was doomed due to the accusation of being a Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto. Was she really a traitor?
- Through the sad lives of three women of different age, who live in the same depressing quarter of Lódz, we get a glimpse into the city's gloomy present.
- The filmmaker observes patients of an oncology clinic receiving chemotherapy, partly in intimate close-ups.
- The film told the story of a young teacher who emigrated to the vicinity of Lake Baikal in order to teach Polish deportees' descendants their native language. Many years later, as a married couple with two children, the director and his wife are leaving for Argentina. Influenced by their Argentinian friend, Janek enters the fascinating world of imagination, and is introduced to the bitterness of childhood prematurely contaminated by the problems of grown-ups.
- A posthumous homage to the great Polish cinematographer Edward Klosinski, who worked with such luminaries of Polish cinema as Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the film's director Andrzej Wajda.
- "Po-lin" is a story of a world long gone. Of place and time when two cultures, Polish and Jewish intertwined and coexisted. The documentary shows a collection of unique, black and white films, that take us back to a small villages and towns caught on camera right before the second World War.
- After an accident, a man remembers his complicated relationships with women.
- Simha Rotem aka Kazik Ratajzer, a Polish-Jewish hero who fought in two Warsaw uprisings during WW2, tells the story of his long, traumatic, but ultimately satisfying life.
- The documentary follows the Englishman Mark Atkin in search of both his Jewish past and the family treasure which his father had told him about and has been an object of familial fascination for decades. At the old family house, however, Mark finds the way to the long sought-after treasure blocked. The family residence is now under the control of the Polish military, and Polish military intelligence are operating a laboratory on the site where the treasure is hidden. The hurdles Mark and his now arriving family have to face seem insuperable, but he never gives up, sometimes blurring the line between legal and illegal, all the hopes of finally unearthing the family treasure.
- Abu Haraz is a Sudanese village on the River Nile, where the villagers lead simple happy lives. Soon they will all face a major change - the large dam is being built and their village is going to disappear under water.
- Music becomes a reason for the meeting of Gypsy boy and old Silesian man. Rebellious hip hop texts contrast with idyllic songs played on the old man's guitar. The confrontation of those two distinct worlds leads to the surprising and close relation between them.
- In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'
- Documentary raises the burning problem of the regime in Belarus.
- This is a moving feature-length documentary full of empathy, sincerity and determination, in the fight for a better tomorrow. It presents the remarkable stories of people struggling to cope with the daily cruelty of war in Ukraine.
- Eighteen-year-old youngster returns to the park where 12 years before he used to talk to elderly strangers and ask them serious questions.
- A terminally-ill actor decides to donate his body to a medical academy after death. He gradually learns to accept his upcoming parting with life.
- A group of British tourists visits Poland to take a short practical course in communism. Young guides from the "Crazy Guides" travel agency in Kraków, teach them how to milk cows, plow fields, thresh grain, and work with a team of bricklayers. As a reward they get to eat potatoes and drink vodka while the guides recount for them the history of contemporary Poland.