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- Krzyz (The Cross) is set in the waning years of the Stalinist era in Poland. It's an eloquent meditation on honor, obeisance and sin. This bleak black and white tale follows an elderly peasant couple traveling to visit their son who is in prison convicted of murder. This encounter however, instead of bringing a closure, reveals a horrible truth about the crime their child is going to be hanged for.
- "It's walking without any muscles, though it shouldn't be able to walk. Stone tissue. How strange," said the girl and looked at her boneless body.
- 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.
- A car drives through Poland. The scenery gradually changes: a town, high-rise flats and farmhouses. The car stops in a village. A female photographer from Western Europe gets out and avidly takes pictures of her surroundings. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding.
- At the photographer's we can see the young and the old being photographed. But there are also various types of photographers.
- The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.
- A virus has wiped out most of the world's population. Europe is under United Nations quarantine and survivors live in small groups in ghost cities across the continent. The story of two friends, and the girl who came between them.
- A girl prepares herself for a difficult moment. Aposiopesis in classical Greek means becoming silent. Today we use it as figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished.
- Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.
- A personal film about the directors grandfather who occupied Greenland and cooperated with the Nazi-Germany during WW2. A personal journey and a rumble with the past.
- Based on a story by Jerzy Anrzejewski, called The First Love, it's a gentle story of two seven-year-olds and the feeling emerging between them.
- Maria and Pawel is a young, loving, married couple who have been unsuccessfully trying to have a baby. When medicine begins to fail, Maria finds quack woman who could help them. It quickly turns out, that the faith in unconventional methods of treatment, can separate them forever.
- A young priest visits a psychiatric clinic where he is supposed to provide patients spiritual counseling. A meeting with a female patient changes his life completely.
- A young man arrives late for his aunt's funeral, in a tiny village in central Poland. He's confronted by a number of woman, who challenge his presence, as he is the only outsider that has interrupted the life this hermetic community. After he misses his last bus he is forced to stay for the night.
- A fifteen year old girl, a neighbor and an old Mercedes. A young girl and her grandma hitch a ride with the neighbor, during which the girl finds herself turning into a woman.
- Away from cities a man puts up a watermelon stall. Rare local drivers pass by without stopping. Only tourists stop to have a picture taken in front of such a peculiar sight. Such a business can hardly bring profit. To make things worse another seller puts up his stall opposite from him. The film shows a day in the life of watermelon seller.
- Hierophany is the manifestation of the sacred (from the Greek, "hieros" is equivalent to "sacred" and "phaneia" to "manifest"), and this film addresses this concept in the form of an animated, dreamlike journey.
- The story about how difficult it can be to find out the truth about ourselves.