
Jan P. Matuszyński
Directing
Biography
Jan Paweł Matuszyński (born 23 April 1984, Katowice) is a Polish film director and a producer of documentary films. In 2012, he graduated in Film and Television Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. In 2014, he was awarded the Silver George Award at the Moscow Film Festival for his documentary film Deep Love. In 2016, he won the Golden Lions award at the 41st Gdynia Film Festival for The Last Family, a film telling the story of artist Zdzisław Beksiński, starring Andrzej Seweryn (awarded the Silver Leopard for that role at the Locarno Film Festival) and Dawid Ogrodnik. In 2016, he was awarded the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category for The Last Family. His latest film Leave No Traces entered the main competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jan P. Matuszyński, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.
The Eastern Gate

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.
The King of Warsaw

The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.
Second chance

After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.
The Border

Konrad Wolski, head of the Q department, an elite Polish intelligence unit, taking over a Belarusian arms dealer in Istanbul, learns about a terrorist attack planned in Sweden. The weapon to be used in the attack is to come from the Soviet arsenal hidden in Belarus. Konrad immediately contact with Travis, a Polish spy secreted in the Minsk KGB, to obtain intelligence information that will defeat the terrorist plan. The matter is complicated by the fact that Travis has just been exposed by one of the Belarusian KGB officers. He's financial blackmail, will not remain in his position for a long time. Sara - an officer of the Polish Intelligence Agency is sent to Minsk with the mission of his immediate evacuation. At the same time, a retired general of Belarusian services in Warsaw is blackmailing the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
Illegals

Spring 2020, Poland. 16 filmmakers create 14 short films about unexpected experience of isolation caused by pandemic.
At Home - Poland

After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.
Minghun

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Leave No Traces

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...
The Last Family
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Talking Heads 2021
"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."
Afterparty
The story of a man who is released from prison years later and must exact a revenge that is not obvious.
Święty
Action drama. Bartek has just completed his military service. He goes home by train. He gets off the train, looks around to find his girlfriend, Karolina. She was supposed to collect him from the station, but she's not there…
I Know Who Did It
Intimate story about how much we need another man. Peter and Olga meet at a time when everything seems to be over. They decide together take their last journey.
Together

Janusz, a self-confident 60-year old, an incredibly active person and an accomplished diver, suffers a stroke which leaves him paralyzed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets him for the world. What keeps Janusz going and motivates to carry on is his big dream - he would like to dive again, despite major hazard for his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt which poses a challenge even to fit divers.
Deep Love

In a Polish village in the early 2000s, young motocross riders spend the summer immersed in their passion. The idyll is violently disrupted when the infamous Henryk returns to the village. His arrival sets off a chain of events that leads to an inevitable confrontation.
The Dogleg
38-year-old Robert learned that he had advanced cancer of the bone marrow. The doctors did not give him much hope - according to their opinion, he had only a few months to go. Robert decided to devote himself to the one thing that gives him joy: he began to paint icons. He says, "in this disease there can be something good."
Niebo
Teenager Kacper falls in love with a girl he met online and decides to find her.
Offline
Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.
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