Szkoła Wajdy

The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.

It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money - that causes many quarrels and destroys their relationship . One day Iwona receives a great offer from her old friend - Wojtek. He wants her to move to London and start a brand new life.

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

A 16-year-old girl goes to extreme measures to care for her younger siblings when their mother is diagnosed with a fatal illness.

Five short documental scenes by different directors, each showing their different interpretations of "silence."

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.

Living in East Los Angeles and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young short-order cook faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. After what seems to be a connection with a Mexican Bakery worker turns into a misunderstanding, Shin experiences a side of Los Angeles invisible to his social circle of Japanese expats. Subdued and restrained, the film offers an unsentimental and personal portrait of living in between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.

The great Polish opera diva Maria Foltyn created her greatest performance in Stanislaw Moniuszkos Halka, with which she toured worldwide - she was applauded by Stalin and admired by Castro. Today, when she is losing her voice, she has decided to give way to her successor. The film Viva Maria! is a tale of passion, sacrifice and devotion, and is an extraordinary story of passing down a voice.

A record of a few months of struggle on the set, showing an atmosphere of work and a picture of immense film machinery, and at same time presenting the truest and intimate portrait of the Master of Polish Cinema, the Oscar winner.

Agnes and Lucek take out a loan to buy an apartment. While paying it off, they grow further and further apart.

A French aristocrat hires the best matchmaker in Poland to find him his dream wife.

Szymon, a thirty-year-old doctor with a girlfriend, a car and a mortgaged flat, feels a growing sense of impending disaster. After his birthday party he reviews the day’s regrets—especially the saga of Rysiek, his family’s unwilling tenant—and sees in his father’s weakness a warning of his own potential failure, blending humor with existential unease.

Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man.

Danusia lives alone. Her everyday life is prayer and cooking. He relaxes by looking at old photos from his childhood and youth. In the evenings he calls Kuba. The 17-year-old grandson lives and studies in a care and educational facility.

A funny and heartwarming portrait of a deaf family who spend a weekend at their allotment, coming up with thousands of ways to beat boredom.

Time of childhood, vacation, and hot summer. Do you remember the feeling when the indefinite number of things to discover, stories to explore, matters to think over made each day seem to last forever? Watching “Behind the Fence” one may discover again these happy moments of childhood.

After 15 years behind bars, Piotr finally gets prison leave. Is anyone waiting for him? How will he find himself in the modern world? How will he embrace this short breath of freedom?

'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.

There is a shop next to the building where social services are located. It is not an ordinary shop where you just come to do your shopping. Run by an open and friendly salesman, it creates a warm atmosphere where everyone knows each other, where you want to sing and dance.