Lodz Film School

According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible...

THE HEAT – 1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.

Henryk Greenberg is a Polish-born American who lost much of his family in the Holocaust. Certain of the location where his father and younger brother were murdered, Greenberg returns to find most of his former neighbors predictably claiming foggy memories at first; but soon their recollections come more easily.

To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band.

Directed by Karolina Borgiasz.

A man arrives at a desolate hotel, its eerie silence wrapping around him like a warning. As he wanders the dimly lit corridors, he finds no sign of life, only a lone, unattended meal waiting in the dining room, which he decides to eat. By nightfall, violent illness takes hold. In a desperate search for help, he staggers through the hotel’s darkness.

A black comedy describing one evening of the lives of several animals. A couple of turtles, a bear and a pesonal monkey trainer want to find their will to consciously manage your life. The story takes the Aesopian tradition of narration by means of an animal fairy tale on the level of contemporary existential problems and attempts at understanding between the characters.

One of his first and the most famous undergrad shorts, which seems to forshadow the director's death. A prize winner at a film festival in Oberhausen, it does not bear any great resemblance to Wiszniewski's later films.It attempts to illustrate the subjective states of a character through expressionistic photography, hardcore jazz and associative editing.

To please the God, one religion must worship her, another must kill her. To save one life, one must sacrifice another. Mohesh, a beloved cow owned by a poor Hindu villager, is prayed to as a God. When she has to be sold, her new owner sacrifices her in the name of God. A neorealist film, shot on location in rural Bangladesh, featuring both professional and non-professional actors.

Marcin Kroll deserts from his military unit that’s headed to the training ground. Lieutenant Arek is sent after him, tasked with bringing Kroll back to the unit before an official investigation begins. The officers fear a scandal: the inquiry could expose the brutal conditions in the unit that drove several soldiers to suicide.

A troubled man finds an outlet for his emotions in brutal slap fighting competitions. In his quest for recognition, he gradually pushes boundaries, regardless of the consequences.

A young man’s house party takes an unexpected turn when his gangster neighbour breaks into his apartment. A carefully crafted morality story, For Real forces its protagonist to make uncomfortable choices. This is a tough survival drama that effectively chronicles a series of bad decisions that lead to life-changing events. Exceptionally well-acted, shot, and edited, the movie takes the audience on a complete journey that’s entertaining and frightening. Tense, unpredictable, and frustrating, this is a complicated scenario where any choice has dangerous consequences.

Imagine that you are in a forest which is dark, quiet and empty. You do not know why you are here. Suddenly you hear a howl. You feel you do not want to be here. You are afraid. You see a wolf, and a second one, and a third. They come closer and closer to you and surround you. What are you going to do?

Caring for an elderly, paralyzed woman.

A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.

Obese 12-year-old Wojtek is ashamed of himself and his mother, who runs a rundown grocery. On a bad hair day, the boy rebels against his mother, but instead of making her change, he humiliates her.

It's Friday morning at Panamerican Machinery Inc., a company specialising in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events shakes their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse.

Kasia, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl, lives with her two-year-older boyfriend Emil, a truck driver from Poland. One day he decides to quit his job and, together with Kasia, start earning money by selling their intimate life on the Internet. They both make money on a website which offers the viewers live sex. Emil is having doubts when it comes to telling his father about this controversial line of work. Maciej Jankowski created a very bold documentary about young people who are looking for their place in life.

Niko lives with his father, who treats frogs better than he treats his own son. These slimy green creatures are the reason Niko can no longer tell the difference between reality and dreams.

Therapy session opens memories from five different places and times. Traumatic experiences come back in expressive and suggestive images. Slowly, chaos becomes calmer and changes into peace. The film is a story about loss, thanks to which, an opportunity to find power and hope emerges.