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Joseph is 40 years old and has little reason to greet each morning with a smile on his lips. He has had as many women in his life as friends - zero. His living space does not exceed three square meters. That's how much space he has both at work (a parking shed) and in his apartment (a room in his mother's place). The situation is further complicated when one day he is arrested by two strange men in unfashionable suits.

On her eighteenth birthday, Lena is trying to bond with her family. All Souls’ Day, a time for contacting the dead and getting together to return to one’s roots, puts our protagonist in a special mood and changes her outlook on her own problems. Everything that happens throughout the day will revolutionise Lena’s view of her family. It is a story of the search for one’s identity and roots, of life and death, of the co-existence of parallel worlds that come together through the power of love.

The world-famous astronomy professor has been living in seclusion for many years. Will Martin manage to rediscover his genius? It turns out that the mysteries of human life are as unfathomable as outer space.

Adam, thirty-two, still lives with his overprotective mother. Their everyday life is filled with rituals of obedience and mutual dependence. Everything changes when one night Adam is accompanied by a man in a gray suit, visible only to him.

Janusz is a salesman in a furniture store. One time he accidentally tears a pillow - the first "accident" in the company in a long time. It seems that Janusz is very upset about it. Or is it something else that doesn't give him a break?

Janek is a young medical intern who struggles with financial problems and doubts about his future. Although he has been working so hard, the day before his promotion he makes a risky decision that may change his life forever.

A day and night of the life of a boy who comes back from the States to his hometown. After a few years’ emigration for money, he intends to start up the business of his life. He has the know-how and dollars for a start. However, will Marcin manage to rebuild his relationship with his old love, Krysia?

"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."

An unnamed village in the Podlasie region. The inhabitants lease out land which does not technically belong to them, but so far the operation has proceeded without problems. They keep to themselves, in seclusion, without interaction with the outside world. Then, suddenly, a nameless Stranger arrives. Given the situation of the village, none of the inhabitants know how to act, worried that the Strangers intentions might not be as harmless as promised. Krzysztof, the self-appointed Mayor and protector of the village, takes it upon himself to show the Stranger around, carefully avoiding the locals resistance. Together with a local driver, and his neighbour, a man who left the city for the country side, they silently circle the village, full of anxiety, not knowing the Strangers reason for being here...

Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Kapelusz is an adaptation of an excerpt from Kazimierz Barandys' short story "For You and Himself." The main character is a 12-year-old boy named Michał brought up by a despotic father. But one day he receives an unexpected gift from his father...

Seventeen-year-old Sergei feels completely misunderstood in his immediate environment. Some of his aunts mistake him for his cousin, his older brother Remigius does not even open his mouth towards him, while his father would very much like to make him a world-famous boxer. The boy escapes into the world of fantasy, which is the greatest of his passions. During one of the fantasy field games Sergei becomes a hero, which brings unexpected consequences.

Former Miss, a retired hairdresser – Elżbieta, with an encouragement from her son, decides to take part in a mature beauty contest. She is scared that she won't be able to go through with it. Especially when she finds out that she will be competing against a rival from the past... The potential title is supposed to give Elisabeth a chance to rebuild her self-esteem and start a new chapter of her life. During the contest Elisabeth discovers her son's secret.

Sophie has bad luck in life. She is a romantic, she doesn’t like her job and everyday, little inconveniences meet her. Real trouble starts when she meets her ex partner from whom she once ran away to another city. In the beginning, the girl believes in his transformation but their relationship turns into a string of fights and verbal abuse again. Sophie decides for a final resolution – she calls on her father.

An absurd comedy inspired by George Perec’s novel “A Man Asleep” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, a short story by Herman Melville. Adam, a young man living with his mother, hasn’t left his apartment in years. After his mother’s death, Adam’s own life is being turned upside down. Since he’s not able to function properly without motherly concern and service, Adam decides to take his friend’s, the postman’s, advice and rent out his mother’s old room to a girl, who’ll take care of him.

An attempt to tell the story of one woman's fate. What Ela wants is never said directly, but sometimes it is painted on her face as she cleans her house, dances, or cries.

A tragicomic story of two people who seem to have grown sick of life. Harry and Sally are a middle-aged married couple. Harry tried to commit suicide. So Sally persuaded him to play golf, enabling him to escape from thinking about unpleasant things. However, Sally has less and less strength for the daily struggle to restore her husband's will to live. Both of them, in their well-ordered and predictable lives, more or less consciously pursue self-destruction.

Weronka is living a happy and peaceful life until she learns that her father is ill. The world around fights for her attention, and the reality slips out of control. Playing with friends, her son Pietrek experiences something that makes him believe he can heal. Is it possible that the boy influences his grandfather’s health?

Liza comes to visit her cousin whom she hasn’t seen for 5 years. They both return to their childhood games that they used to play. They seem invincible in their provocations until they meet Robert who’s the only one that doesn’t fall for their tricks. Intrigued by his attitude, they invite him to enter their hermetic world.

Nikol and Oliwka have a freedom the rest of teenagers can only dream of. Far from parental supervision and prohibitions, they leave according to their own rules. However, the world of adults is not so simple, as the sisters soon discover. Adolescence can beat everyone. The girls have to take responsibility over their deeds on their own.

Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.