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Browse 19 movies from Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
This is a movie about middle-aged people, which are trying to find love in this cruel real life.
May 2007
To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band.
Jan 2012
Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.
Mar 2007
Such changes took place in Poland over a period of several months - from the end of 1988 to the end of January 1990? Michał Bielawski, through the prism of official and underground archives, shows the then state of mind of Poles, their fears, hopes and reflections. Film materials from the 1988-1990 period are in harmony with the photographs and diaries written by Poles at that time, as well as with the messages about the changes taking place. We observe the most important political, social and moral events of that period, confronted or reinforced by the comments of their active observers: ordinary people, politicians of the government camp and oppositionists.
May 2019
A young bride teams up with a poacher after being accused of witchcraft on her wedding day and chased by a witch hunter.
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Jan 2015
Aki and Bruno are two adult renegades in love with each other. They manage to create their little heaven on earth outside the social norms. Miron - a young boy - mindlessly destroys this world through his boyish naiveté and childish self-centeredness. The film is about immaturity, the space between the world of adults and the world of the underdog.
Dec 2006
Night. Air raid sirens. Insomnia. A girl returns to a city she barely recognizes and confronts the changes in it and its inhabitants.
Sep 2026
A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line.
Jan 2006
22-year-old Diana is planning to move to England with her 4-year-old son. Her partner – the child’s father – has been living there for several years. Everything is ready: the suitcases are packed, and all Diana has to do is go and pick up her beloved from the station. When they finally reunite and Diana can finally breathe a sigh of relief, things begin to get complicated.
Apr 2026
It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money - that causes many quarrels and destroys their relationship . One day Iwona receives a great offer from her old friend - Wojtek. He wants her to move to London and start a brand new life.
May 2006
A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really depends on her. Rebellious against the author, she writes her own film, recreating the characters from scratch - but neither do her characters want to be heroes in someone else's film. The story of the heroine is intertwined with the story of a critic who "chased" writers all his life to finally find out that his efforts were pointless.
A young, unemployed catechist goes to the province to take a job at a school.
This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
Apr 2007
Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.
Dec 2007
Kasia, an energetic 16-year-old, lives in Nowa Huta. Her mother has no job. They live on their father's modest pension. Kasia is doing her apprenticeship at a small hair salon. She believes that if she becomes a professional hairdresser, she will change her life for the better. In the meantime, she develops a close, online relationship with a mysterious boy signing himself as Italiano.
A film miniature to classical music by Fryderyk Chopin, Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4, arranged and performed by Arnold Dąbrowski. A sentimental, romantic, and lyrical " journey " through Polish landscapes, like a memory recalled from somewhere beyond the fog. The image is in sepia. This subtle hue of an old photograph is only occasionally interrupted by a sudden burst of color, an intensified lushness of green, or a stronger accent of spot and line. The delicate horizon line evokes a graphic space of colorful checkerboard fields and meadows. We follow a leaf carried by the wind to admire the effect its shadow creates on the water. A sudden gust sends thousands of dandelions high into the air, creating a graphic procession that freezes for a moment, and just as suddenly as it appeared, it disappears. In its place, a butterfly swoops in. It enchants with a play of colors, shapes, and the shapes of its wings.
Apr 2010
An 8-year-old boy, Konrad, tells a story about his family, mixing reality with fantasy.
Jan 2021
Koncert Jubileuszowy (2011) is an animated feature film that combines animation with colored salt, live-action fragments, ballet and poetry by Karol Wojtyła, structured around three works by Frédéric Chopin.
Jun 2011