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- Marta is a romantic and a victim of fate. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and their grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, their parents Tadek and Elzbieta live their married life. He is an intellect, constantly humiliated by the system, who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law. She is the president of the company's "Solidarity" with the need for freedom and a dream to finally break out of Poland. However, the real emotions for the whole family start when the dream orange toddler stands under the block. This will be an unexpected catapult to the big world: the family will go to Lake Balaton with a toddler with luggage on the roof. Ela and Tadek will discover a vocation to trade and travel abroad, and Marta will fall in love again.
- We look at three women. The 40-year-old prosecutor Dorota, the young student Magda and a distinguished surgeon, Teresa. They have something in common, an alcohol addiction.
- What does it mean to be oneself? What is a price to be paid for achieving such a state?
- 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.
- 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.
- This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do.
- The film is a subjective biography of Stanislaw Dygat. Subjective, as told by the writer's daughter, who follows in her father's footsteps, trying to get closer to him and understand the motives of his actions. Magda Dygat has been in an artistic dialogue with her father throughout her adult life. He is looking for those moments and moments that were of special importance to him and his work. In his film journey in his footsteps, he will try to touch the mystical clamp that binds Dygat's writing career together.
- The border zone of divided Germany, 1989. A Polish-German mother travels with her two children from East into West Germany to bring her extremely ill father-in-law back home. But she falls into the hands of a racist West German Border Patrol official who is determined to prevent her entry at any price. After German reunification, the incident is investigated by authorities at the highest level. (Based on a true story).
- An energetic six-year-old boy talks to elderly strangers relaxing in the park. He confronts his childish knowledge of the world with their life-long experience.
- 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.
- Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them.
- Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. This documentary follows the life story of the composer by the means of his melodic sounds. It is a reflection on his soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artists in the 50s and 60s. A story about how film music is created and how it affects people. Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, recollect him.
- After 23 years, the film crew visits the same woman, Urszula Flis, who lives a reclusive life of a countryside intellectual in a remote village. Much has changed all around her but has she really changed herself?
- The film is a report from the mission of Polish Military Contingent in Afghanistan. Five professional soldiers recount their six-month journey to Ghazi Province. They talk about their reasons to join this operation, the mission itself, and how it affected them as human beings. "I cannot find myself. I do not know what to do. There are no orders to follow and no tasks to complete. It is too peaceful here. I miss the adrenaline. This fear you find there is so addictive." - They share their experiences after coming back to normal life. Survive Afghanistan asks the questions: What does it mean nowadays to be a soldier? What are the advantages and what is the price one pays to serve the country?
- Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, and hundreds apply. A small group is selected and under go training. Polish master Marcel Lozinksi followed Tymochowicz and this project for three years, and this beautifully shot and edited work paints a compelling portrait of cynical (and quite familiar) demagogy and populism in action. Taken through exercises in all aspects of being a politician, from body language to handling media scrums, soon a candidate emerges. The relative ease with which the political rookie, Dariusz, merges into active political life is quite shocking, as is his completely malleable ideology. "It's a revolution in communications," claims Tymochowicz.
- Almost all metal scrap was sold from poor Kyrgyzstan to China. Rising empire is feeding on fallen Soviet colossus. Film shows this phenomenon in micro-scale: slow rhythm of Kyrgyz family, Russian truck driver and few events from long journey across Tien Shan mountains.
- Andrzej "Dudi" Dudzinski tells the story of him and his art.
- "Leaders" is a children's political thriller. Students of a primary school are candidates for the students council. Their battle for the leadership triggers off great emotions. That election campaign shows, like in a distorting mirror, the world of a big politics. What kind of a democratic pattern do those children know? What the public life would be in several next years when the youngest generation came to power? We observe the campaign of our four main characters. They differ in everything: the social status, the style of the fight, the motivation. Marcel, Kais, Helena and Filip have one common aim: power and a high place in the school hierarchy. At the beginning, it seems a children's play, but it quickly changes into a serious social game. Winning the election is a matter of honor and approval. For some of them it means "to be or not to be" in the society. The children try very hard to be adults. You may treat their actions, slogans and speeches as a grotesque. But the results of the election don't evoke laughter.
- Tadeusz Kantor was a great artist. Today, more and more Europeans are willing to recognize him as - his great creator.
- The untold story of Australian animator, Yoram Gross, comes to life in this new film that follows the artist and his family through his childhood in Nazi occupied Poland, in Israel, all the way to Australia, where he found his fortune and happiness through children animated features and the popular film series Blinky Bill.