1970
When protests broke out in Communist Poland in late 1970, a crisis team gathered in Warsaw. The film “1970” is a story about a rebellion but told from the perspective of the oppressors.
An Ordinary Country
A journey through time to an era where what is terrifying and unusual was familiar and commonplace. A journey through time or a reflection of today’s reality?
Festival
There is a classical music festival going on...
The Palace
The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw was a despised gift from Stalin. After the political system transformation in Poland some suggested to pull it down. But the palace is still standing and doing fine, pulsating…
Doctors
What happens behind the closed doors of surgical wards, treatment rooms and other spaces where specialist medical consultations take place? The film follows the everyday work of doctors in a surgical ward: the hierarchy…
H2O
A documentary by Tomasz Wolski focuses on a slow, fragmentary observation of a small part of reality. Its centre is in a market square of a small town somewhere in the south of Poland. That’s where three springs of…
Slowly
The film will show one day of life at a small farm in the Low Beskid. Three generation of men live under the same roof: 48-year-old Jan, who works at log-rolling in the woods, his 78-year-old father, Michał, who used to…
The Actors
Documentary made during the filming of Jacek Blawut's debut "Before Twilight" features retired actors in a rest home in the town of Skolimów. A spare camera captured old actors waiting to be called on the set. "The…
The Lucky Ones
The field of observation is limited to the seat of the Registry Office within its opening hours, or more specifically to its three rooms. One of them is used to register births, the second one - deaths and the third one…
Goldfish
"Goldfish" is a film about the colourful everyday lives of a group of mentally handicapped people. The film follows the group as they prepare to put on a production of "The Tale of the Goldfish", an adaptation of a work…
The Clinic
A hospital: crocheting, crosswords, sleep, conversations. It is Sylwester's 23rd time in hospital. His wife died 13 years ago and now he has to take care of everything. Luiza is not feeling very well although she keeps…
Silence I
First task of the documentary students, taking part in the first Documentary Course was to make the three-minute short films entitled “Silence”. Each of them interpreted this term differently. Six of the shorts were…