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Browse 14 movies from Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
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.
Dec 2006
To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band.
Jan 2012
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
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
A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line.
Jan 2006
A young, unemployed catechist goes to the province to take a job at a school.
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
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.
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
Jan 2015
The animated short is a humorous fantasy, for which the starting point is a routine visit by a certain patient to the dentist.
Jan 2008
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 psychiatric study.
Jan 2007