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Browse 17 movies from Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie
A gas station attendant unexpectedly forms a bond with an ordinary fish. From this seemingly trivial encounter emerges a series of unsettling events.
Oct 2025
Izia and Karo are growing up in a small lakeside town, where their friendship unfolds to the rhythm of time spent together, tender gestures and unspoken understanding.
May 2026
'I Am a Miner's Son' consists of recordings of a flooded mine in southwestern Poland and an abandoned hotel in Greece. It is a wandering through used up spaces which were given a new life, which are infected by chaotic rashes of social subconscience.
Jan 2018
Life in Krakow goes slowly. Pigeons fly, and the lady with the Krakow’s pretzels waits for the hungry tourists. HE watches over the security of the city, but the danger is hanging in the air.
May 2018
A crowd of people feel a sudden need to come to a mysterious tower standing in the middle of nowhere. Inside, they are unable to stop moving and dancing, and without even realizing it, they perform a ritual arranged by the creature spinning at the top of the tower.
May 2025
Somewhere, no one knows where, all the apples have fallen and everything is immersed in sleep. In a small apartment, a mother sleeps with her child in an armchair. And when reason sleeps.
Jan 2004
A mother and her three children live in a place where the only food there is apart from the mother's milk are figs from the fig tree.
Jun 2021
A young girl has immigrated. Functioning in a new environment is slowly turning into a routine, and she herself – into a modern Frankenstein’s creation.
Oct 2020
Animated film, about the formation of the Master - inspired by the work of Roman Polanski. Surrealistic picture with elements of macabre absurdity situation, metaphorical struggle of matter in shaping man and creator. The "body substance" slides off the window, like the hero of the film "The Tenant." Paradoxically, another collapse is shaping up a human figure who finally performs a master perfect somersault and strongly lands on the ground. The fully formed pratagonist is Roman Polanski - famous film director.
A cosmic heroine in a sci-fi world, two unhappy people, and a fox. A few wild episodes depicting the frantic attempts to find meaning and the journey from the world of illusion to reality.
Oct 2023
A boy is walking through an idyllic landscape and suddenly he finds a little black square on his way. He buries it. After a while the mysterious square reappears. This time it is quite aggressive, it starts chasing the boy, destroying everything that stands in its way, it is difficult to get away from it... This meeting will irreversibly change the boy’s life... The film made under the artistic supervision of Professor Jerzy Kucia.
Jan 2007
The film shows a surprisingly refreshing approach to ecology. The protagonists are scientists, artists and enthusiasts who are related to nature on very different levels and present the relationship between man and nature from a completely novel perspective. We need to learn to live with the awareness that people have irreversibly changed the world they share with millions of other species. Which of them have best adjusted to the life in a city? Why do nature films show a false image of nature? What can we learn from plants and animals that can adapt to a life among waste?
Nov 2021
What would the world be like without humans? Closed cafés, loungers with no one to sit on them and empty parking lots may indicate an approaching apocalypse. It seems as if there is no life in this sterile world, but is it true? Adaptation of a poem by Sara Teasdale ‘There will come soft rains’ written in 1918.
May 2023
Fear is an internal monster circulating around the body and debilitating its every cell, which takes over human organs and disseminates without control. Is it possible to stop it? Is it easier to control it as you age? What is adulthood about?
May 2024
Animated impression depicting the relationship between man and horse...
Jan 2000
Full of poetry and nostalgia, this is a story about the passing of time, in which the title piece of furniture is the only companion of a lonely tenant of a certain apartment. And he will remain when she is gone. And in the background the poignant sounds of This Last Sunday.
Jan 2005