Szkoła Wajdy

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

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

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

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.

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

Based on Karet's short story. 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.

Ciechocinek, Poland's most famous health resort, which has even inspired songs, welcomes thousands of visitors every year. Patients expect to improve their health in a short time and to feel better spiritually as well. The characters in the film undergo health treatments, but also enjoy walks in the sun, listen to concerts, and go dancing. Three weeks spent in one place is not really much, but it is enough to experience happiness.

An elevator and its passengers, a mother-to-be reading a fairy tale to her unborn child, a lost boy caught between his rowdy, drunk parents, a dance lesson for the deaf, a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, bored MPs listening to a speech in parliament - six documentary etudes on the subject of silence. A continuation of the 2003 exercises included in the film Silence. The authors are students of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A young couple with Downs Syndrome are on their first date out at a restaurant.

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.

Julia is spending her summer alone by the sea. She's trying to meet new people through Tinder.