Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she...
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother,...
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery...
A tale based on the true story of Jasiek Mela, the first and youngest disabled who ever reached both the South and North Pole. The Mela family is enjoying their summer vacation on the lake completely unaware of the tragedy that is about to happen. And just when they think that the loss of a child...
Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and finds herself falling for its handsome tenant, Marcin. Ambitious and adept at lying to charm women, Marcin faces a sudden financial crisis he can only escape if his wealthy aunt Nela believes he’s...
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
A Polish historical film, based on Marek Nowakowski's book "Report on Martial Law. Notes from Everyday Life." An interesting procedure of the production is the combination of a classic feature film with animation stylized as a comic book.
A homeless 60-year-old man learns that he doesn't have much life left. All he cares about now is securing a future for his dog. So he goes to his hometown; to the relatives he abandoned many years ago. Will they want to talk to him?
After escaping from the hospital, a harmless patient steals a Santa Claus costume - and finds himself perfect in his new role. He spends Santa Claus in the company of a 10-year-old girl being cared for by her unlucky uncle.
