Maciej J. Drygas

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions.

Trains opens with a quote from Franz Kafka: “There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us.” These words hang like a dark cloud over this found footage documentary, which creates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.

In the competitive world of tourism, there are very few experiences that are out of bounds. “Danger Zone” explores the world of war tourism, catering to a growing market for ever more rare and extreme experiences.

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972... Young people are sitting in the Hotel "America" basement and listen to Western Radio.

Nothing special had happened on that day in the People’s Republic of Poland. The weather forecast predicted moderate clouds. Over 1600 citizens were born and about 600 died. A day like every day… Police reports, control protocols, complaints, letters from the army and to the prison and also to the newspaper or radio programme Fala 56, a poem by Father Twardowski taken off by censors; and all this under the date of 27 September 1962.

Abu Haraz is a Sudanese village on the River Nile, where the villagers lead simple happy lives. Soon they will all face a major change - the large dam is being built and their village is going to disappear under water.

A psychology student believes that the knowledge and experience she has gained at university give her the right to act independently. She begins psychotherapy sessions with a group of students. Unfortunately, they end in failure.

Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in Bieszczady. Far from civilization, surrounded by the mountain range, they live in unison with nature and its rhythm. We accompany them from dusk to dawn, observing the slow passing of time. This is a story about people, who have chosen a simpler life.

A found footage documentary about one of the first female directing students at the Film School in Łódź – Stefania Świeca.

The sound signal of the Polish Radio Free Europe broadcasting station has etched itself into the memory of several generations of Poles. In the days of communist propaganda, the radio station was one of the few sources of reliable information from the country and the world.

The startling story of Ryszard Siwiec, a man who, on a Polish national holiday in September 1968, immolated himself in front of thousands of people in a stadium in Warsaw.

The security services of the People's Republic of Poland controlled several tens of millions of letters every year. Every day, specialized units were engaged in peeling off envelopes, reading and analyzing private correspondence, which resulted in reports on social moods. The letters written during the whole period of the People's Republic of Poland - intimate, full of pain and despair, but also those with threats to power, and also those more pragmatic ones, in order to do something, became the tissue for building a poignant internal portrait of the Poles in the People's Republic of Poland - were the basis for the creation of a moving portrait of Poles in the People's Republic of Poland. The film is composed of unique archival materials.

A project devised by Polish documentary film-makers Miroslaw Dembinski and Maciej Drygas, based around the implementation of a series of workshops for film students in different cities around the world. The students worked under the supervision of the Professors for a month on a collection of documentary shorts, resulting in five one-hour documentaries that are portraits of those cities.