Studio Filmowe im. Karola Irzykowskiego

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan’s friend Maria, leads to Joanna’s fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures a trial, psychiatric evaluation and deep depression before the case is dropped; only after reconciling with his children does he finally leave the clinic to return home.

Karolina works in an elementary school in the province. She passively waits for a great love. Life seems empty and colorless to her. Karolina's friend Jola, who decides to take fate into her own hands, has a different attitude to reality. This does not always bring positive results. One day Karolina meets Jan, who has come to the town for a seminar of young capitalists. Soon Jan leaves the town, and Karolina goes to Warsaw to meet him.

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.

A story about classmates from school: Anka, Inga and Xena. During the prom, two girls murder a third - considered the most beautiful of them. The film is based on real events. The creators are trying to find answers to the questions: what was the cause of the evil that appeared in the girls? Was it stuck in their interiors, or did it appear from the outside world, from the chaos of everyday life? Who was at fault? It is a story about desires, plans for the future, fears and attempts to find a place in the world.

The inhabitants of Zbrosza Duża and their parish priest go to a meeting with John Paul II.

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

A free interpretation of Rockowiska '81. A recording of concerts and audience behavior, similar in form to a music video.

A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.

A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.

Another transport arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Former prisoner no. 181970, a member of the Sonderkommando, recounts years later how the gassing and burning of corpses took place. The film ends with the song "El Malei Rachamin" for the souls of the dead.

Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

A fictionalized musical film about the rock band Maanam – one of the most popular music groups in Poland in the 1980s.

A documentary about the rock festival in Jarocin, seen through the eyes of its participants, city authorities and representatives of social organizations.

Magda, a novice director, makes a film about the behavior of young people in extreme situations - specifically, in a correctional home.

The story of a journalist, member of the Communist Party and Solidarity, who gave up his profession during martial law and started selling bread.

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.

The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death...