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A documentary of two Polish friends who decide to open a snail farm that could bring them millions.
May 2018
In Kyiv, the war still seems inconceivable, but the pandemic forces a mother and her daughter to spend the lockdown in their shared apartment. The mother is a piano teacher who keeps giving lessons on the phone, on her kitchen table, with the same passion and perfectionism. Her daughter has an art studio at the other end of the apartment, yet she has swapped her paintbrushes for a camera. Ptitsa: a bird, in Russian, like those who brave winter on snow-covered windowsills.
Jul 2022
The documentary will introduce the viewer to the state of extreme physical exertion and moments of mental crises that runners must face. At least in part, it will allow them to experience the extremely intense emotions that become the lot of ultramarathoners.
Oct 2017
The film is inspired by the real events – the story of Kati Andreevoj and Daria Chultsova – the two journalists from TV Belsat, an independent station broadcasting from Poland and their arrest by the Belarusian police in Minsk.
Sep 2022
Joanna is famous because of her blog on confronting a terminal disease. The movie shows her everyday life.
Jun 2013
The story of nineteen-year-old Tomasz, a first-year environmental engineering student. He recently moved to a large city and is struggling to find his place in a completely new environment. He's gifted, recognized from the start by his professors. One day, while riding a tram, he witnesses a theft that he is unable to prevent—an event that shatters the boy's already shattered peace of mind...
First days of the War Alina, one of the film’s protagonists, disabled after leg surgery, spends alone with the cat, in her home in a small city near Kyiv. She looks for the ways to escape. The bridges are destroyed. Alina manages to find the only road useful and get away with the cat to her parents, caught by the War in their cottage in the nearby village. For the first weeks of the invasion everyone tries to live normally. The mother conducts online lessons, the father takes care of the cats and all the other animals in the neighborhood left behind, Alina records current events with her camera. The sounds of the approaching front force the family to alter their perspective. The way one sees and feels changes. When the neighbors leave their homes, Alina and her parents, under the cover of the night, hurry to pack. However, at the last moment, the father decides to stay.
Apr 2024
Julia is 35 and feels her life is slipping away. Feeling unattractive and taken for granted by both her husband and superiors, she craves to get noticed again. Will ”Echo”, a revolutionary AI-powered scale, be the one to finally see her - and her whole potential?
Sep 2026
A man finds it difficult to cope with the death of his wife and the lack of a relationship with his daughter.
Oct 2012
Dos Islas is a poetic story about old age, family and the bond between a granddaughter and a grandmother. The woman, who just turned 102, tells stories about her past and childhood. In a literary and visual way she describes the most minute details. The film dazzles the viewer with love and optimism, the time passes slowly between the two islands, which might be real people, real places or the products of the main character’s imagination.
Nov 2017
Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.
Sep 2024
The film shows the Polish media life in 2010 from the perspective of the daily work of paparazzi - from hunting Roman Polanski to the events of the Smolensk catastrophe. However, in the foreground there is a dramatic story of a man who makes controversial choices on a daily basis and bears emotional, personal and ethical consequences. The title character turns out to be as ruthless as himself as to the people on whose lives he preys. Paparazzi is a movie about lost world values and bold rules - but shows that we always have a chance to decide what kind of man we will be tomorrow.
May 2012
During the renovation of a tenement house in Lublin in 2010, workers came across a wall that was not included in the building plans. In a hiding place behind it, they discovered a collection of photographs taken on glass. The collection contains over 2,700 glass negatives depicting people who lived in Lublin almost 100 years ago.
Jan 2019
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Oct 2015
A dynamic and full of punk energy story based on life of one of the most original and interesting contemporary artist, the performer, Oskar Dawicki (playing himself). The main theme of his art is the search for an answer to the question of whether. Oskar Dawicki exists at all. The trade mark of his performances is his blue shining jacket.
Jan 2015
The Mayan doomsday prophecy looms over a dark night in Poland. A late-night radio host takes in calls from citizens expressing their concerns, predictions and speculations on what may happen when—or even if—the sun comes up. Simultaneously, a crisis centre dispatcher fields panicked calls from people experiencing real-life traumatic situations in need of immediate attention. The voices of these callers are interwoven with an intimate therapy session and a wandering taxicab to build a profile of a place where citizens want to be heard. Never showing the callers on the other end of the line, the film creates an aural overview of a darkened city. As the night progresses, the calls continue coming in, revealing the various struggles people are experiencing in dealing with conceptual fears and current woes—all in a world that soon may be over.
Apr 2015
Jan 2011
A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
Sep 2021
May 2017
A quiet observation of the unexpected and rich friendship that develops between young psychologist, Tomasz, and his elderly patients in a state retirement home. While each patient reveals a story of personal tragedy it is Tomasz's own obsession with beauty and youth that is challenged, not only through his proximity to death and aging, but as he comes to appreciate and embrace their passionate will to live.
May 2011