TVP Kultura

This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.

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.

Andrzej (Bartosz Opania), a popular film stunt is a happy husband and father. It appears that the specific work of Andrzej does not disturb his calm family life. So how should be explained the anxiety, which appears in the moment of Andrzej's another risky venture? The film was based on a story by Joanna Kocemba "Rainbow" and refers to the Decalogue First Commandment “You shall have no other gods before me” - as a part of film cycle produced within the project „Dekalog89+”. Leszek Korusiewiecz is one of the ten young directors which has taken the challenge of making new film on the Decalogue Commandment's impact for young generations, due to the project made on 20th anniversary of launching the famous "Decalogue" by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Episode from the series entitled "Decalogue 89+" inspired by the fifth commandment ‘You shall not murder’. A taxi-driver dies in a car crash caused by a popular TV presenter. Is it the end of his dazzling career? The odds are against it as the media concern that employs him will go to any lengths to salvage their star’s image.

A lonely 17 –year-old Ania (the Newbie) is seeking acceptance in a group of peers playing risky urban games. She pays for her strivings with a loss of faith in values. With nothing to lose, Ania invents a daredevil game, supposed to provoke the group and especially its leader-Czarny, to think. The surprising end of the film gives a new chance to return to normality for its characters. The film is based on the short story 'Moc słowa' [The Power of Word] by Anna Czajka and corresponds to the second Commandment: 'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain'.

This short deals with the seventh commandment ("You shall not steal") in the new Decalogue. Young graffiti artists steal paints from a shop and, supervised by Tomasz, a 45-year-old graphic artist, start to paint graffiti on the wall. Tomasz is going to through a difficult period in his professional and personal life working under pressure from his employer who wants him to prepare a project that will satify the client. He has to compromise his own beliefs and taste and struggle to meet the deadline. The film was made as part of "Decalogue 89+" series.

Kasia (Klaudyna Lewczuk), a student of dance school, lives with her mother (Ewa Kasprzyk) in a large flat. One day her mother rents a room to the lodger – a sports high school student. Kasia and the lodger start to run an original friendship relation – without words and meetings. The film is based on the story by Bogna Hołyńska "Fresh paint" and refers to the Sixth Commandment "You shall not commit adultery." - as a part of film cycle produced within the project „Dekalog 89+”. Marcin Bortkiewicz is one of the ten young directors which has taken the challenge of making new film on the Decalogue Commandment's impact for young generations, due to the project made on 20th anniversary of launching the famous "Decalogue" by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

The story of a small Esterhazy and his research of Bunnies's Paradies that truly existed between East and West part of the Berlin Wall.

Anna – the mother of a 16-year-old Adaś, who is dying of cancer, is desperately trying to find Wiktor, an author of an internet blog. Wiktor maintains to have found a cure for cancer. Anna’s night journey through the real and virtual world ends with a shocking discovery. The film is based on the short story 'Płomyk za szybą' [Flame behind the Window] by Marcin Kaczmarek and corresponds to the tenth Commandment: 'You shall not covet your neighbour’s goods'.

The unique story of film directors who managed to critic the Communist regime while being produced by the State: this is Polish cinema's golden age, in the 1970s. Director Ania Szczepanska, born in Poland and raised in France, meets prominent filmmakers, producers, actors such as Andrzej WAJDA, Marcel LOZINSKI, Krzyszstof ZANUSSI, Kristina JANDA, Ryszard BUGAJSKI and confronts them the testimonies of the State men of that time. Through unknown archives, forgotten documentaries and excerpts of cult films, she relates how the Solidarnosc people ended up in Cannes.

In Neon, Bednarski recounts the history of Warsaw's neon signs from the pre-War period to modern times. He creates an overview of the neon signs which illuminated streets of Warsaw before the Second World War, depicts the use and role of neon signs in the times of social realism in the context of history and politics, and describes what has happened to them since 1989.

A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line.

A young, unemployed catechist goes to the province to take a job at a school.

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.

'North from Calabria' is about a dream place to live, where living is easy and people know each other, tolerate their faults, like to meet to talk and just be together. For one summer, Sauter's film crew mingles with the inhabitants of a small town to enact an almost Italian comedy. It appears that all they needed was a few classes of Italian cuisine and the art of carpe diem to turn this Polish province into Calabria alike. A documentary midsummer night's dream.

Wojtek, despite turning 30, still believes in the legend of a big fish swimming in a nearby lake. He devotes all his time to catching it. This is of little interest to Wojtek's overprotective mother, Wanda, who, on her son's birthday, decides to arrange his life: find a girlfriend, buy an apartment and turn him into a marketing specialist for his own denim company. A fairy tale of maladjustment, dreams and sick love.

Mother (Maria Seweryn) and daughter (Michalina Rodak) live alone in a small house on the outskirts of the village. Their close relations get distorted by appearing of a mysterious man. Are women able to defend themselves from mutual jealousy and distrust? The film is based on the story of Aleksandra Duda "Olive" and refers to Eighth Commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." – as a part of film cycle produced within the project „Dekalog 89+”. Tomek Matuszczak is one of the ten young directors which has taken the challenge of making new film on the Decalogue Commandment's impact for young generations, due to the project made on 20th anniversary of launching the famous "Decalogue" by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

19-year-old Janka comes from a catholic family. She lives together with her parents in a small town near the eastern border of Poland. One day she meets an eccentric Russian woman–Sara. The feeling that is awoken as a result of the encounter becomes for Janka both the beginning of sequence of trials and reflections upon her own life. The film corresponds to the Ninth Commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife".

”Rytual” is a vividly illustrated record of the character's struggle with everyday activities. A sequence of overlapping interactions between a human and a dog often assumes a grotesque, comical form of intolerable compulsions. The short film raises a timid question about the complexity - or should we say imperfections - of human nature. Behaviors, gestures and habits of both the human and his dog show a far-reaching resemblance, while their mutual relationship is an unending cycle of everyday rituals. The character, entangled in the series of recurring events, unexpectedly discovers the terrifying animality of his own nature. This disturbing metamorphosis is interrupted by a sudden awakening. But was it merely a dream?