A Close-up at Andrzej Wajda
The film was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda`s work as a film director. Archival material is juxtaposed with shots from his film locations and fragments of his films, as well as with memories of…
A Life To Live
An optimistic and warm story of the blind children who are being prepared for an independent adult life by the instructors at the Centre for the blind in Laski.
All for Poland - Zamosc Uprising 1942-1944
All for Poland - Zamosc Uprising 1942-1944.
A Piece of Hell in the Podole
The film deals with difficult subject of massacres of Poles in the second decadeof World War II by Ukrainian nationalists. The villige of Huta Pieniacka was one ofhundreds places attacked and destroyed with all its…
Atijat, the First Wife
A starting point for the film is a story of Atijat and her husband Adil - a story that shows the world of dilemmas, experiences and marriage relationships in an Arabian family. After few years of living together, our…
Babilon.pl
The war in Iraq has become the most important event of 2003 worldwide. Poland has sent 2.5 thousand soldiers there. The film shows the Polish soldiers realize how difficult their task is, and the difficulties of service…
Bird`s Eye View
Women may leave their new-born babies in maternity wards. At the sme time they irreversibly renounce any rights to take care of their children.
The Black Point
Each year thousands of car accidents happen at the polish roads. The characters of the documentary talk about them, their consequences...
Breath
Film poem about dying. The structure shreds of memory of the very last moments in human life.
Competition
The characters in this film - girls aged from 6 to 11 years, take part in a beauty contests for small children - Mini Miss Poland. The film shows their dreams, which usually concern quick and easy success.
Czeslaw Niemen
"Czeslaw Niemen" is a film about a man who was a symbol and an indispensable part of the new era of music in Poland - the era of big beat. However, as much as he was a legendary figure he was also a controversial one.…
The Declaration of Immortality
In his new film Marcin Koszałka returns to a forgotten genre, namely a mountain film. The protagonist of his story is Piotr “Mad” Korczak, somewhere in the background there is his rival Andrzej Marcisz. The director…
Freedom is a God-given Gift
‘I spent half a year with heroine addicts in a desolate building at 13, Foksal in Warsaw. I registered my own decline. Actually I was registering my life just incidentally because I would have never assumed that I would…
Getting Back
The documentary addresses the problem of the return of prisoners to normal life in society.
Andrzej is 50 years old man, released from prison after 10 years. We watch him for a year as he practically starts over. He…
Home and Memory
Podlasie is a region of Poland which has still retained its unique landscape with wooden architecture, which cannot be found in other parts of Poland. Unfortunately, it is being irreversibly changed at an ever-growing…
The Human Files
"The Human Files" presents an impressive story about the previously little known activities of the Nazi anthropologists of the Section on Race and Ethnicity Research of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit, working in…
III. Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy
A film from the Decalogue series. In a few months Staś is going to take his First Communion. It is an intensive period of preparations, spiritual and material ones. Each person in the family experiences it differently.…
I`m With You
The leads of this film are parents accompanying their sick children to hospitals. In hospital wards (often completely unprepared for that) the parents spend weeks, months in very harsh conditions: sleeping in chairs, on…
The Last Will
Against the background of the Youth Day Celebrations in Toronto in 2001. Father Stanislaw Kielek talks about the way how to realize his calling. The Catholic teaching of the Pope become a universal appeal to do good and…
The Man Who Is Not
A film about Chechnya, as seen through the scope of a sniper rifle. A boy, who become a Russian mercenary there, tells his true story for the first time. What he does here is confronting his childhood dreams with the…
The March Of The Living
A record of an unusual meeting arranged by the author of the film in Auschwitz - a meeting of the son of Martin Borman, a Nazi criminal and the father Romuald Jakub Weksler, a son of victims of the Holocaust.
The Masters
Several times a year swimming competitions of the Masters, those over 25 who can swin and want to complete, are held in Poland (and at different places in the world). Each competitor starts in his respective age group.…
Mixed Couples
What do Czechs think of Poles and what do Poles think of Czechs? Asking people on the street you will see that there are not too many radical opinions – more likely, there is no opinion at all, and what’s worse: there…
The Music Lesson
The focus of this film is Polish pianist and teacher Tomasz Stroynowski, who is totally immersed in the world of classical music. For him, piano melodies represent the most fundamental and most universal form of…
My Son Romek
Romek! Romek! Romek! He comes on evry call, brings her water, fluffs her pillow, massages her leg. With the patience of a saint he takes care of his old, crippled mother.
My Warsaw
A personal view of Warsaw.
The New Tsaria of Russia
The documentary will be about two kinds of the aristocracy. The old one with authentic roots, focused on Russian Aristocracy Association and new one, represented by Dżuna, called New Tsarina of Russia.
Aristocrats from…
Peking 2008
Just turn off one of the major streets in Katowice to find yourself in another world: in the "district of wonders" called "Peking". Old, rotten industrial blocks accommodate people sinking in addictions and despair.…
Poles, Poles
A portrait of a portraying portraitist. For decades the photographer Krysztof Gieraltowski portrays eminent figures, thus creating a testimony, what the Poles are like. This time his "victims" are well-known natives of…
Real Corps - Krzysiek i Slawek
An epilogue of a popular documentary series about police. After a year the director returns to two of the characters featured in the series - operational officers in the Homicide Division of the Warsaw Police…
Sentenced to freedom
Their sentences seemed like eternity, but now their prison terms are about to end. "Long-termers" will soon leave prison walls. They will disappear from the view of judges, guards and legislators. It's anyone's guess…
The Shepherd
Portrait of Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek.
Three Winters And One Springtime
The Polish Cultural Convoy launched by a group of young people from Silesia, carries gifts for Poles living in the poorest part of Romania. Besides presents for children, they prepared a performance in Polish. Despite…
Till it Hurts
The story of a lonely, 53-year-old psychiatrist living with his severely overprotective mother. When a woman steps into the picture, a bad conflict breaks out. After years of sexual abstinence, Ewa brings out the man in…
Tom W.
12-year-old Tom lives in a small town in central Poland. He takes care of his family: his grandmother, mother, father, two sisters, brother and four cats, two dogs and one guinea pig. Instead of going at school he looks…
Vanuatu - Bungee's coming home
Martyna Wojciechowska - one of the most famous TV journalist in Poland. Her passion for extreme sports led her to go to Vanuatu to find about Naghol land diving. Martyna "brings bungee back home" by showing the…
Warshaw, a Look From the East
A documentary about Warsaw, from a special point of view.
What Does Jadzia Live For
If you knew her, you would ask yourself: What does Jadzia live for? If you knew her better, she would answer your question herself. But it doesn't mean it would be true…
What're You Gonna Do Next, Karolinka?
Karolinka, an 18-year-old mother, is looking for her place in the world, hoping for a better life, like the one she briefly experienced while working on a movie set. A life without vodka, theft, and violence.
Where do Wild Strawberries Grow?
In the forest outside of Kiev there is a burial ground of some 30,000 people murdered by the Soviets between 1937-1941. Thousands of Poles are buried among them. In 2006 Polish archaeologists were allowed to carry out…
Zula from Chechnya
A story about a doctor and her two sons who had to escape from Grozne because of the war, enables us to look deeper and in a more universal way at the problems of refugees applying for asylum; the difficulties of people…