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- A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
- Damian, a teenage boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for the Celtic Glasgow F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man. It is easier for him to get on with his pregnant friend, Monika, who is his senior by a few years. When the time comes, Damian will have to choose between his dreams and common sense, a consequence of his subconscious need to correct somebody else's mistakes.
- 'Communion' reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
- Beginning of 1945, Poland. At the just liberated areas, the Communist Security Service eliminates its enemies under the pretext of punishing "national traitors". It organizes a labor camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, which is named Zgoda/Reconciliation. Franek, who is in love with a Polish prisoner Anna, joins the camp crew to rescue her. He doesn't know that one of the inmates is Erwin, his German friend, who, like himself, has also loved Anna for a long time. Franek joins Communists in the illusory hope of outsmarting the system.
- A story of thoughtfulness in death, life and love.
- A woman is kidnapped and kept a prisoner. In captivity she learns she has been adopted and her family buried the uncomfortable truth. In order to break free she needs to solve a mystery from the past.
- A dynamic and full of punk energy story based on life of one of the most original and interesting contemporary artist, the performer, Oskar Dawicki (playing himself). The main theme of his art is the search for an answer to the question of whether. Oskar Dawicki exists at all. The trade mark of his performances is his blue shining jacket.
- The bridge connecting the world of the living with the world of the dead was damaged. Therefore, the news of her death reaches Maria with a delay. Maria leaves the house, on the way she meets people who pass by indifferently, they barely notice her. Strangers, on the other hand, do not want to see her at all. Maria returns to her mother, to the house she has gotten rid of. Her body had already been brought. Traditional rites begin. The pawiduch is grooming the body before the burial. The family tries to persuade Maria to see the body and identify herself. It is a prerequisite for realizing that she is dead. Accepting this fact is supposed to bring relief to her and her relatives. But Maria rebels. He refuses to die.
- Peaceful protests in Minsk are pacified by the police after a Belarusian oppositionist is beaten to death. The journalists of independent Belarusian television are the only ones to broadcast the course of events from the windows of one of the nearby blocks. When they are tracked by a police drone, they have little time to make a decision - continue the relationship or take care of safety? Which turns out to be more important - truth or freedom? A film inspired by real events. (Wajda School promotional materials) The film uses excerpts from the broadcast of Katerina Andreeva and Daria Chultsova from the Change Square and the Belsat Studio broadcast on November 15, 2020.
- CAMBODJANA" is a documentary that delves into the forgotten story of a UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia. It highlights the unique experience of a Polish logistics company, which found itself engaged in its first combat since WW II.
- The life & work of polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda.
- It is a subversive comedy in which the release of primal instincts becomes the recipe for a successful relationship. Monika and Piotr are a fairly typical couple where passion and sexual attraction have faded away, but not jealousy. In order to do something about it, they go for therapy, but accidentally they end up at an evolutionary psychologists office. It turns out that, from the point of view of biology, their desires are perfectly natural and reasonable, justified by reproductive strategies shaped over millions of years of evolution. Bozena and Dariusz, in order to save their relationship, decide to live according to evolutionary psychology, how they were shaped by nature.
- The urban cowboys are children in the rougher and poorer neighbourhoods in Irish towns who keep their horses and ponies in the empty plots near their homes or who befriend ponies living in these lots and train them to be ridden. They turn to the animals to avoid domestic disputes and violence in the home. They love their horses and, in return, their horses love them back.
- Ukraine, February 2022. The Russian invasion on the outskirts of Kyiv forces Alina to join her parents in their village. Amid the noise of the bombs, the three do their best to get on with day-to-day life.
- With sounds and body memory, the ex-workers of the Ursus Factory re-enact one day of work in a plant that no longer exists. The resulting symphony consists of the choreographed movements of the workers as well as of the technical, administrative and managerial staff, accompanied by the recreated phonosphere of the heavy industry.
- Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and their parallel lives accidentally brought together. The film reflects on the concepts of invaders, victim, guilt and forgiveness. It confronts different experiences and their paradoxical similarities. It deals with the controversial subject of the post-war accountings. The visual narration is flowing guided by memories and archives. Traditional documentation confronts experimental use of archival footage in the cinematic impression about displacement.
- An actor travels around the country with a theatre troupe. After many years he returns to his home village where his mother is dying, and meets a kind of his double there. His effort to find out who and what that figure really is turns into a real obsession and leads to a surprising finale.
- Driven by a desire to reconstruct her grandmother's childhood memories, Adriana travels from Cuba to the El Hierro island. Just like the origin of life, this film was born from stories. Even at the age of 102, Elvira still tells her granddaughter that by jumping over a washbasin she can magically cross the Atlantic and visit the house of her birth.
- Decrescendo quietly observes the unexpected and rich friendship that develops between young psychologist, Tomasz, and his elderly patients in a State retirement home. While each patient reveals a story of personal tragedy it is Tomasz's own obsession with beauty and youth that is challenged, not only through his proximity to death and aging, but as he comes to appreciate and embrace their passionate will to live.
- The participants of an extreme race run over 300 kilometers in 48 hours. During two days they don't sleep, don't stop, they even eat while running. After a couple of hours they start to feel faint, suffer contusions and even hallucinate. Those who reach the finish line experience great euphoria. Why do people take part in races that are so challenging? Running helps them work through frustrating issues - a stressful job, personal troubles, trauma from the past. They miss the feeling of accomplishment and living life to the fullest. Only when they are running, they feel truly alive.
- Immersed in childhood fantasy, Lila is a tale of jealousy, rejection, hurt and revenge.
- Patty Diphusa is an erotic film star created by Pedro Almodovar. One day she comes to Poland, because the script says so. She waits for a man of her dreams, but he is not coming. She calls to Almodovar...
- She was not just a hairdresser. He was not just another customer.
- An intimate portrait of Basia, an energetic eighty-year-old woman. We watch her as a grandmother, mother, sister and actress. In simple scenes from her everyday life, humor meets nostalgia as the basic themes of love, aging and death are unexpectedly touched upon.
- Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.
- Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws of nature, among animals and the spirits of the dead. The peace and sense of security offered by their enclave come at a price - the women increasingly long for contact with other people. Bucolic is an affectionate observation of people who live in a different way. It evokes a curiosity about their world and a desire to take a closer look.
- The story of a woman from Chechnya, Raisa, who has fled with her children to Poland to escape her difficult past. By taking the decision to leave, she breaks away from the traditional system there. Only in this way can she show her objection to the oppressive rules in her home country and the harm she has suffered. She shares her life story with her Polish language teacher in this film about female strength, determination and the struggle for dignity and independence.
- Tables screwed to the floor. One hour, that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month. Meeting room in one of Polish jails. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of one of the mothers, her solitude and constant waiting. The film was produced within the frame of "The First Documentary" Programme - run by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, the Andrzej Munk Studio "The Young and Film", Polish Filmmakers Association, Polish Film Institute and Polish Television.
- Monika, since her accident some three years previously, has been confined to a wheelchair. Her daughter Julia makes a film about her mother as part of a school project. This film allows both of them to say things they would not normally say to one another.
- Crazy Mike from Cracow organizes unusual tours for tourists from the West. He takes them to the Nowa Huta district in a clapped-out old bus, together they visit the relics of the past - the Stylowa restaurant, the place where Lenin's monument used to stand, steelworks, a typical workers' flat. While visiting these places he tells tourists stories about the lure of life in the communists Poland and the absurdities of real socialism. Is this trip going to leave any trace in them?
- Carefree life of a 16-year-old Inga is broken off with the news of her mother's fatal illness. From one day to the next Inga is left alone with two younger siblings. She has to run away from the welfare workers who want to place her in an emergency shelter for children. Inga wander with the kids from her boyfriend's to her aunt's. Like it or not, she becomes a mother for the kids. For the sacrifices she receives unusual recompense...
- 'North from Calabria' is about a dream place to live, where living is easy and people know each other, tolerate their faults, like to meet to talk and just be together. For one summer, Sauter's film crew mingles with the inhabitants of a small town to enact an almost Italian comedy. It appears that all they needed was a few classes of Italian cuisine and the art of carpe diem to turn this Polish province into Calabria alike. A documentary midsummer night's dream.
- Magda, a paramedic, goes straight back to work seven months after a mysterious, traumatic event.
- "Right Side of Cello" is a documentary about an exceptional cello player Dominik Polonski. The film showcases an unusual relationship between the man and his instrument. It always accompanied the artists: in the height of his glory but also when he was forced to use a wheel chair. Despite all that, our hero is using the instrument to full capacity of possibilities. More and more composers write music just for one hand, especially for Dominik. It is a story about the struggle with the limitations of body and the will that allows us to defeat our weakness.
- A story about three men of different age who spend six months each year working as shepherds, away from their families and civilization. They have a lot of time to talk about the most important and leaving aspects of life.
- The French are outraged! Every other snail on their table comes from Poland. The snail industry is growing and Polish breeders are exporting their snails not only to France or Italy, they are also conquering China and Japan. The 'snail coin' popularity convinces two friends, Andrzej and Konrad, to start their own farm that will bring them millions. They guide into the snail world secrets is Mr Grzegorz, a long-time expert.
- An intimate portrait of a couple who, confronted with unexpected news, must get to know each other again. A simple story told with extraordinary honesty about growing up to a new role and getting used to change. She, him and unexpected news. Her doubts and his poker face. She experiences extreme emotions, to which it is sometimes embarrassing to admit. He is consistently renovating the apartment and feels that there is no room for weakness. However, they hold hands in all this. The eye of the mobile camera accompanies them in the change that is slowly taking place in their lives. The phone they pass to each other spy on their everyday life, often lined with tears and misunderstanding, it becomes a witness and a provocateur of questions and doubts.
- A deeply moving documentary about an unusual sportsman whose toxic relationship with his family is more of an obstacle to his quest of Olympic gold than his lack of arms and legs.
- Warsaw by night. Buses are countless under the rain. They look like ships sailing around the city. People, anonymous faces, they enter, they go out. They are all going somewhere. But for some of them, homeless ones, night buses are shelters and all night long they play a bitter game, together with drivers, to get one more ride.
- An old couple of villagers sits in front of their house observing nature and commenting village's life. They have been living in their wooden house for all their life. One day their peace is ruined by very laud visitors...
- The great Polish opera diva Maria Foltyn created her greatest performance in Stanislaw Moniuszkos Halka, with which she toured worldwide - she was applauded by Stalin and admired by Castro. Today, when she is losing her voice, she has decided to give way to her successor. The film Viva Maria! is a tale of passion, sacrifice and devotion, and is an extraordinary story of passing down a voice.
- After the death of his wife and his only son, an aging painter cuts himself off from the world and from people and attempts to exist in his empty flat.
- Panabi is a 12-year old boy, who lives in a big block of flats in Warsaw. The block is ruled by Bocian, a ruthless young thug, who - as usual - dates the prettiest girl. Unfortunately, Panabi's brother is crazy about Bocian's girl. As Christmas draws closer, disaster looms. BROTHER DOG, a loose adaptation of a short story by renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret, is a twisted Christmas carol set in a Polish blocks neighborhood.