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A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.
May 2017
In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
Sep 2012
Mula lives with her husband, sick mother and daughter Nina in a countryside house. At the weekend before Nina’s First Holy Communion, her brother with his family come for a visit together with Kaja – Mula’s younger sister, who disappeared suddenly 6 years earlier. Kaja is Nina’s biological mother. Mula is afraid that unstable Kaja might want to take her daughter away.
Mar 2018
Gottland provides an unconventional look at Czechoslovak 20th century history. Inspired by the bestselling book “Gottland” from the Polish journalist Mariusz Szczygiel, this feature-length film is comprised of short stories portraying peculiar fates. Young documentary film makers from renowned Prague Film School FAMU, inspired by the book, take a closer look at the history of post-war Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic, in order to discover new heroes and remind us of the ones that were forgotten or erased from the history.
Aug 2014
When Kuba finds out his girlfriend Ewa is pregnant, he reflects on life and wants to prepare to do everything he can to be a great father and provider. Kuba wants to be a responsible man but he isn't sure what is the ideal way to live. He visits his three uncles seeking their advice on what he should do. As they all have their own perspectives, each of his uncles guides him in new directions.
Jul 2008
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of Solidarność (Solidarity) in Poland. What was in the minds of the young women and men who fomented revolution in their own country? What did they think when their revolution was quelled, or – as in Iran – an authoritarian regime was instituted under the name of an “Islamic Republic”?
Sep 2019
The story of a soldier’s parents told from the perspective of their 17-year-old grandson, Janek
Feb 2019
Emeryka loses control of her life through the intrigue of a mysterious character named The Something and is led to an adventurous escape to a female sect, for which she has to leave her daughter behind. It is a story about the right to choose how each person defines themselves in terms of gender and sexuality.
Jul 2024
The suicidal woman remains in her body after death and observes a world in which she is no longer present.
Jun 2020
Forst is a wealthy, well-organized man. When we meet him, he seems like the king of life. One day he abandons the corporation where he is vice president. The devastation he leaves behind gives no hope of returning. The forest, 4 am a few years later. A semi-feral forest grandfather, overgrown, dirty, in rags, sets snares for animals. We recognize: it's the same man - Forst. He lives in the forest, in a dugout he built himself. For company he has a three-legged dog. He feeds on the meat of hunted game, lives in harmony with nature. One day, thirteen-year-old Jadzia stands in front of the door of his solitude. Forst once again has to change his life....
Jan 2017
Documentary about the famous Polish director Agnieszka Holland and her relationship to Czechoslovakia, based on two storylines: one depicting the life of Agnieszka Holland during her studies in Prague towards the end of the 1960’s, her friends, her participation in a student strike and her arrest for supporting the dissident movement and anti-state tendencies, and the second one - following her return there.
Jan 2014
The fate of a religious and a young woman intertwine when they both suffer the loss of a loved one.
Jun 2011
In the winter of 1903, a group of characters painted by the master escapes from Jacek Malczewski's paintings.
Jul 2021
Eight-year-old Yoshko is awaiting the arrival of her cousin, Lila, whose parents died in a car accident. The girl is to live with relatives. Joszko is intrigued by the girl, who has stopped speaking in the wake of the shock. Relations between the children quickly become tense, turning into rivalry. Lila, craving maternal care, tries to take Joszek's place in his mother's heart. She even goes so far as to make threats.
Jan 2015
Gugara in Evenky language stands for the sound of the bell hanging from a reindeer neck. It's one of the few sounds you could hear in taiga, but recently there's almost nothing but silence. Within the last few weeks, Dimitri and Tatiana, elderly herdsmen, have lost their entire herd. What to do in taiga without it? Especially if you are very last herdsmen in the area. Everybody else already has left life in the forest for the nearby Russian village. This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This observational documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient life-ways. Characters of the film are on the different stages of forsaking world which was known us traditional way of life.
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.
Dec 2010
Eugeniusz Rudnik revolutionized the idea of music itself with a pair of scissors and a magnetic tape. As part of the legendary Experimental Studio of Polish Radio, he revealed hidden value in rough and rejected sounds long before the rise of the DJs. In an era of electronic music created in a workshop resembling a scientific lab, he composed music to reach and to portray other human beings. This movie is an attempt to hear the vision of his music.
Jul 2014
A portrayal of patients from the Clinic in Cracow. Mr. Sylwester went to hospital for the 23rd time. Mrs. Luiza is in a good mood and has an appetite, although she has problems with her health. Mrs. Józefa worked in theatre as a decoration specialist and she likes to talk about celebrities. The film portrays a microcosm of elder people with their problems, joy, successes and disappointment.
Jan 2006
Recently divorced Kinga wants to create a refuge for her children and choses a gated community full of surveillance cameras as a place to live.
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May 2011