Anagram Film

Maria and Tom are in their thirties and have been married ten years. They live in a small town. Both find professional fulfillment in their jobs he in a design company, she at the town hall. They are working together on the decoration of their apartment and are expecting a baby. It seems that nothing is capable of disturbing their peaceful lives. But one day the mayor, who has long lusted after Maria, rapes her. She decides not to report this to the police. Nor does she tell her husband. From that day forth, their love is put to the test.

Marcin, 28, is an unemployed polonist trying to get back together after splitting from his girlfriend.

Twenty-two years ago Piotr Szczepański decided to make a film about a group of his friends every ten years, creating a unique generation portrait. These friends were the punk rock band Cool Kids of Death. The first part of the saga was the 2004 awarded documentary “C.K.O.D. Generation”. Twenty years after its foundation and ten years after disbanding, Cool Kids of Death starts a special tour of concerts now having a cult status. Will this reunion bring something more than just purely mercantile benefits?

What does it mean to be a Jew in Poland now? Piotr Szczepański reveals another surprising piece of the cultural mosaic of Łódź in his documentary. The protagonists' lives prove that close ties with their religion and history do not exclude their relationship with counterculture and propensity for creative provocation. Thanks to people like them – open-minded and unconventional – the Jewish culture has a chance to last and thrive in our country. Besides, ‘@miriamfrompoland’ is a story, which presents a traditional, yet not quite typical, family with impressive observational virtuosity.

For two years, the director traveled wherever the members of the Cool Kids Of Death band appeared. He used a camera to record fragments of concerts, interviews, heavy drinking parties and obscene conversations held backstage, so it's no wonder that he became friends with the musicians. However, the true measure of this friendship turns out to be his film, in which Szczepanski escapes both the temptation to make a joke about his friends and a harsh lampoon.

Ten years on, Cool Kids of Death are back on the road, grappling with what their music has meant to their generation and how it can sustain them in a changed reality. Director Piotr Szczepański reunites with the band he first filmed in “Generation C.K.O.D.” to explore their compromises, doubts, and efforts to make a living from the sound that defined them.

It is a hot summer day in August 2022. Harvesting is in progress in the Polish countryside. It follows the same routine as every year until is it interrupted by an unexpected aberration. A surprising take on the multi-layer crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.