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The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
It's 1940. German forces are prevailing over Allies across Europe. The crew of the Polish submarine, now serving in the Royal Navy, is waging a heroic fight against the invisible enemy.
Magdalena is a young, single mother who tries to raise her daughter by day and become a DJ by night. When she meets Julia, her dreams get a chance to come true but her traumatic past stands in the way to her new life.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.
The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.
The film reveals the mechanisms of the communist institution of censorship. Famous filmmakers - Kazimierz Kutz, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Filip Bajon and Marcel Lozinski - talk about their contacts and experiences with censors, how their films were censored, what parts were considered contrary to the ideology of the socialist state. These interferences were often of an absurd nature. At the same time, the filmmakers mention how much of the intended content they managed to smuggle out. The film is also an attempt to analyze and summarize the role of censorship in a totalitarian state and its impact on culture and art.
A teenage Karol, who is conditionally released from the correctional facility, stays in a training flat. Under electronic supervision, he starts his life anew. In his daily "life training" he can count on Marta's help. The relationship between them deepens and creates a chance for something more. With time, Marta's lessons become more and more unconventional, and her relationship with Karol turns into an ambiguous bond.
Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
Czeslaw Niemen, who died ten years ago, was an icon for several generations of Poles. In Poland under communism he managed to raise popular music to the rank of true art; he also won renown abroad. He was born in 1939 in Stare Wasiliszki (today's Belarus) and his biography was largely shaped by the tempestuous history of this part of Europe. The film is a portrayal of the charismatic musician, made up of unique archive materials and reminiscences of his family and friends.
Sie macie ludzie is a documentary about the vocalist of Dżem - Ryszard Riedel. It includes interviews with former band members (those present did not agree to be interviewed), Ryszard's friends, his family, and several archival statements of the singer.
Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese, who brings back Marlena’s self-confidence and sense of womanhood. However, it turns out that the man plans something rather different for her than building a relationship with her…
A documentary in which a picture of pre-war Poznan is reconstructed with the help of archival materials from regional collections and staging. The structural axis of the film is a radio broadcast from August 1939 with the participation of well-known and respected residents of the city, who answer the question: is there going to be a war?
Tonia lives with her father and grandmother. Her mother is dead, her father is an alcohol abuser and he lost his job. His grandmother decides to send him to work on a construction site in Italy for three months. Tonia will do everything in her power to foil this plan.
The patients of a provincial psychiatric hospital reminisce about their lives: a man exiled to Russia in 1940, a girl who served as a liaison during the Warsaw Uprising, a former partisan, a textile factory worker. Among the younger ones is an epilepsy patient, a bearded man having troubles with the militia, a blind woman, and a doctor, who ended up working there due to a collapse of his personal and professional life. Their words are accompanied by archival footage.
