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- Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
- Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
- After suffering extreme humiliation at school, Dominik holes himself up in his room and begins spending all his time in a virtual reality chat room.
- A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
- Three Catholic priests meet to celebrate the anniversary of an event which could have taken their lives. Their experiences and motivations to serve as priests are extremely different, and soon each of them will have to face new challenges.
- A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarists army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women's Leage member - Ola, and Tadek, her fiancee, a member of Shooting Team. Apart from fictitious characters whose stories were modeled on the biographies of real legionnaires, many historical figures appear in the film. Among them: Brigadier Józef Pilsudski, Lieutenant Stanislaw Kaszubski, pseud. "King" and many others. The film focuses on the Legion's combat trail from1914-1916, from the departure from Oleandry to the battle of Kosciuchnowka and show the most dramatic cards of the legionary epic, including the famous attack of uhlans at Rokitna - one of the most spectacular scenes in the film.
- Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of having his winter slumber as usual. Winter is certainly totally different than he had imagined.
- The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
- A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to start a new life in picturesque town in south-east Poland - Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish - Jewish relations and real findings of his work - that roots of some legends are fantasy, not a grain of truth...
- The film tells the story of the Prussian family von Krauss living in the Puck area, as well as the love between the Kashubian boy Mateusz and the German aristocrat Marita and is set between 1900 and 1945. The script depicts the complicated fate of three nations inhabiting the former Polish-German borderland in northern Kashubia, where the line of the border in Versailles after the First World War divided not only the land but also the people of Germans, Kashubs, and Poles, causing riots and often hatred. The script goes through four decades showing the complex attitudes and choices that people have to make here. Prussian anti-Polishism fought with Kashubian patriotism, which in 1939 ended in mass murder committed in thousands of Kaszubians in forests near Piasnica.
- In a technologically developed but feudal world beautiful Duenna is forced to choose between love and the task for which she was created.
- A murder of a convict held in custody seems to be connected with dark and mysterious events from two years back.
- Poland, 1982, the politically heated days of communist martial law. Two coal miner brothers react differently to the oppressive police state. While Tadek prefers to retreat into neutrality, Janek chooses active engagement in the democratic underground. When Janek asks Tadek to store some anti-government leaflets on the second anniversary of Solidarity's 1980 strikes, he triggers a spiral of events that will have everyone's allegiances and characters severely tested.
- A Polish tailor and WW2 veteran tells about his life and personal philosophy.
- A foreign healer comes to Warsaw where crowds are standing in long lines just to be touched by him.
- Film adaptation of acclaimed play, directed by one of the most exciting names in Polish contemporary theater. The main protagonists represent three generations of women living together below the minimum social level in a cramped Warsaw bedsitter, are: wheelchair-bound grandma, her daughter and granddaughter - little metal girl. The panorama of characters is complemented by their neighbors: a leaflet distributor and a highbrow director of the film 'Horse that rode horseback'. As well as, two actors, a TV presenter and a girl who wants to rescue all kinds of 'poor' people. A story full of grotesque dialogues comprised of perversely taken pop-culture quotes, mockery of the language of publicity and national stereotypes. All this, treating of post 1989 Polish society.
- It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale-an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing. Variations on the plot of the underground rescue-mission in which the hero must conceal his emotions, set in modern times.
- Jolanta, Tchaikovsky's opera about the quest for sight - both literal and spiritual.
- A story of a girl who is trying to deal with her illness. Imagining the illness as a Lion and herself as a Unicorn she goes through the different stages of acceptance.
- Every traveler knows this feeling: moving landscape, rhythmical rumble of the train and a head full of thoughts. Time slows down encouraging an inner journey, as a lonely woman sinks deeper and deeper into her memories. She is traveling to her family: to an absent husband and her child whom she can't learn to miss. She's coming back but in her thoughts she's traveling again. Space-time turns, departures and returns mix into a confusing life journey. In the empty train drama slowly evolves.
- A story of a magic show performed at the end of the 18th century by a magician and his troupe.
- Florentine is a little shrew that just moved out to a new town with her family. She already knows how to read and write, even before going to school. Her dad offers her a notebook and tells her to write. She decides to write all the little things that are happening to her, so she can remember them when she will be older. Come and follow Florentine's life, as she discovers the different things in life like shyness, meeting new people, friendship but also her mother's pregnancy and what it means to be a sister. She is also very curious so she asks a lot of questions about the world that she's living in. She learns a lot thanks to her adventures.
- A look at the late film director Piotr Lazarkiewicz whose generosity and lack of selfishness made him one of the most liked and esteemed people in the Polish film business.
- The film is a subjective biography of Stanislaw Dygat. Subjective, as told by the writer's daughter, who follows in her father's footsteps, trying to get closer to him and understand the motives of his actions. Magda Dygat has been in an artistic dialogue with her father throughout her adult life. He is looking for those moments and moments that were of special importance to him and his work. In his film journey in his footsteps, he will try to touch the mystical clamp that binds Dygat's writing career together.
- A film dedicated to Ryszard Krynicki - a poet, translator and publisher. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary Polish literature, a legendary representative of the New Wave, and at the same time a modest and enigmatic man. The filmmakers carefully collect the traces of his activity, creating an essay deeply immersed in the artist's past. The portrait of the author of "Collective Organism" perfectly reflects the contemplative nature of his work.
- Docudrama about Jan Karski (1914-2000), a WWII Polish resistance fighter and a heroic courier for the Polish Underground who in 1942-43 informed the Polish Government in Exile in London and the western Allied governments about the extermination of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Nazi extermination camps situated on a territory of Poland. It's an assemblage of contemporary narration with scenes from Karski's life and actions, including archival footage. The modern part involves two filmmakers who under pressure of time work on a docudrama about Karski. The historical part consists of the scenes staged by actors who recreate episodes from the life of Karski for a need of the film: interrogation in Nowy Sacz, visit to the Warsaw Ghetto, meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm in London. Making of the film enables a discourse about the protagonist's dilemmas and moral choices and their significance to young generation in forming its attitude toward the modern world.