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Browse 31 movies from Szkoła Wajdy
Agnes and Lucek take out a loan to buy an apartment. While paying it off, they grow further and further apart.
Jun 2008
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.
Jan 2006
A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line.
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.
May 2024
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.
Julia is spending her summer alone by the sea. She's trying to meet new people through Tinder.
Nov 2020
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.
Jan 2011
Oct 2019
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.
Jan 2004
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.
May 2006
'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.
Nov 2010
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.
Jan 2005
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.
Aug 2005
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
A young couple with Downs Syndrome are on their first date out at a restaurant.
Jul 2006
The history of the Wylatowa area is intriguing and fascinating. For six years now people have been gathering there who are convinced of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms regularly visiting our planet. Since the second sign appeared equally a year after the first one, groups of determined ufologists and fascinated people decided to prove that they are or are not a work and a proof of the presence of UFOs. This topic attracted the interest of Maciej Cuske "The film is about one particular enthusiast, ready to give up practically everything to prove that a UFO really exists. It is a documentary about a passion that borders on madness and even leads to loss". - says director Maciej Cuske about his documentary.
Jul 2007
The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.
Oct 2009
Jul 2008
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.
Dec 2007
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.
Nov 2011