Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
In their pursuit of perfect Christmas well - known characters accompanied by some new faces happen to experience tiny miracles! The adventures they come across help them realize that the most important things in life - hope, acceptance and family - are within their reach and that real love is the best Christmas present!
Exploring the underground world of trafficking, where children are used for prostitution and organ harvesting. Patryk Vega interviews a mother who intends on selling her unborn child to traffickers.
Mei, a daughter of immigrants living in Poland, dreams of becoming a pianist. Trying to combine the colliding cultures she lives in she takes a step that can’t be undone. Starting adolescence she must choose between her family and her own happiness.
Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.
The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "respectable citizens", by no means suffering from a lack of cash.
At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. During the congress, socialist realism and pictures representing the imposed aesthetics were proclaimed. Viewers will learn about the attitude of young people to the communist system and the art of those times.
The short film of four months in the life of newly graduated, Kinga. A graduate in Polish Linguistics, she returns to her hometown in high spirits, determined to find a job quickly and renew her bonds with the family she left behind a few years earlier when she went away to university.
A celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life.
Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody.
To instil a gloomy atmosphere, a Chinese film crew decides to shoot a heartbreaking drama in a Polish village and invite the locals to act in their production.
Bogdan, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, retires from the stage when his wife Iza dies, and he seeks solace on his mother's little farm. The little village on the Baltic coast is where he and his wife had sworn to love each other for all eternity when they were still children. Now that everything has changed, Bogdan succumbs to fate and begins to drink heavily. Thankfully his resolute mother has a formula to free the despairing Bogdan from his state of lethargy: renovating the run-down farmhouse and hard work in the stables. One day Bogdan makes a fateful discovery. A surprisingly musical cow, of all things, rekindles Bogdan's life spirits and gives him a crazy idea. His friends and family throw their hands up in horror, and when he tops things by organizing a village feast, things run completely out of control.
An amnesiac, sentenced to Death Row for a murder she can't remember committing, is given a second chance at freedom by the FBI: recruited as part of the secret experimental unit of the FBI's unsolved crimes division, she's implanted with the final memories of murder victims. But while she pursues the leads of other peoples' memories, she is haunted by the distant echoes of her own life... a life she can't remember.
Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, and hundreds apply. A small group is selected and under go training. Polish master Marcel Lozinksi followed Tymochowicz and this project for three years, and this beautifully shot and edited work paints a compelling portrait of cynical (and quite familiar) demagogy and populism in action.
A reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her own dark family history.
In a series of linked stories, women navigate and challenge a dystopian future ruled by sexual duty, emotional repression, and patriarchal dominance.
Outraged by corruption in his small town, a family man runs for mayor but discovers that staying true to his principles may come at a devastating cost.
Stress accompanies a little man from the moment he is born. Separation from his mother, school discipline, and domestic problems strengthen the feeling of stress. Some children are heard in time, others remain silent forever. Child suicides are a fact.
A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.
After graduating, Ania and Roman Miłobędzcy moved to the Beskid Mountains to fulfill their youthful dreams. It was here that their children were born. After a dozen or so years of farming in the Beskid meadows, they were close to bankruptcy. They took advantage of a proposal from businessman Bury and traded their Beskid farm for a villa in a town near Warsaw. Their children, Ola, Janek, and Zuza, were deeply affected by the move. The family's hopes were mixed with sadness. The parents' plan proved a disaster. Instead of a villa, they found a dilapidated wooden house, inhabited, moreover, by the quirky and eccentric Franciszek Alba. It quickly became clear that the Miłobędzcy family had fallen victim to a fraud.
Village boy falls in love with a city girl and decides to change his life. Living in the countryside is the end of dreams? Leszek Gorecki, boy, living in a small village, decides to break this stereotype. Since the child is interested in technology, mechanics, cars. He dreams to become a driver. Meets Bronka, the prettiest girl in the village. Despite feeling Leszek says that the country "no reflection" and has to do something with your life. He decides to go to Silesia. She works hard and puts the money to finally start the desired driving course. One day, during the holidays, the boy meets Anne. The girl is the daughter of a dentist, lives in Lodz, studying biology. Anka gets Leszek in the eye, as it turns out - of reciprocity. A few, however, a huge gap divides the intellectual and cultural
Set in the late 1930s in the Free City of Gdańsk, the series follows Bednarski, a private detective considered the best in his field—evidenced by his brief collaboration with Polish intelligence. Each episode presents a standalone story, united by the central character and the broader historical backdrop: the fate of Gdańsk, Poland, Europe, and the world as they edge inexorably toward World War II.
The truth about Patryk Vega, the most controversial Polish movie director.
Ant lives in an typical European metropolis, and is a typical representative of the generation of young, well-educated and ambitious European women. She works for a corporation, goes to a beautician, attends yoga classes, is trying to lose some fictitious weight, watches TV, and reads tabloids. She tries her best to be a successful woman: independent, professionally fulfilled, beautiful, and happy.Unwittingly, however, she craves great love, maybe even kids and a family… Our story begins when the Ant recognises the need and decides to fall in love. Though theoretically easy, it actually appears nearly impossible.
Small children find magical machine and try to understand that the golden chicken is not a bird.
