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Scenes of a village wedding and the hard lives of farmers in a remote mountainous region of Poland.

Twin brothers, Rysiek and Stefan live in an orphanage run by nuns. The orphanage is situated in a small Silesian town, where the Poles and the Germans live next to one another. The boys are unlucky to grow up in one of the worst periods in the history of the place - during the Third Reich. They will soon be parted only to meet again in extremely unpleasant circumstances a dozen or so years later.

The director interviews villagers about their lives post-communism.

From the 1960s, Antoniszczak devoted himself to perfecting the technique of non‑camera animation. This period saw the creation of the first animagraph‑pentagraphs — machines for transferring drawings onto film stock. Sun, an animation less than four minutes long, was the first film produced completely using this method. The black‑and‑white drawings were made in the technique of woodcut impressed directly onto the celluloid. The vibrating, jagged image reflects the flickering character of sunrays, and conveys a tale of the transience of human existence and the permanence of the universe.

An amateur recording of George Polednik's 60th birthday party that took place on February 14, 2009.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

With expressive and based on the repeatability of shots structured film dynamically visualizes personal emotions and subconscious desires of the artist. He experiences his microenvironment obsessively focusing on ordinary objects whose existence is lost in the created situation it his rationality. The fascination of things is here reduced to the level of uncontrollable physical attraction, which seems to expose the emptiness that filled tempting material goods. She puts in the spotlight but also your body. It is not only a tool of expression, the link between reality and imagination, but an entity interacting with the material reality, both purely physical - negotiating the boundaries between her and the outside world - as well as ideological. Tyszkiewicz examined here because the area of gender performativity and cultural sphere of subjects affecting the perception of female sexuality.

The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary iconosphere. The artist creates characters and situations arranged in a complex in meaning and visual variation on the theme of erotic symbols and incarnations and sexual stereotypes, revealing thus their influence on essentialist vision of women in modern life and visual culture.

The program Szybcy i Śmieszni is a set of skits with which Paranienormalni have already amused audiences throughout Poland. So the time has come for this program to be recorded, and for another DVD of the cabaret to hit the shelf of the most loyal fans. However, the best cabaret numbers require a proper setting. Paranienormalni recorded their new album at Warsaw's Polonia Theater, surrounded by thoughtful and elegant scenery. Among the skits that Paranienormalni put on their latest release there will be plenty of the greatest hits, but also a large portion of surprising moments. On the album we will meet both extremely successful parodies - Robert Makłowicz, Czesław Mozil and famous stars of breakfast TV, as well as characters created by Paranienormalny, who have been associated with them for years. Mariolka will talk about the charms of relaxation in the SPA, Jacek Balcerzak will again try to get a medical certificate, and a famous aged professor will give a most energetic lecture.

„Kiss“ brings to mind the contemporary GIF graphic format, which nowadays enjoys massive popularity – a moving image suspended halfway between photography and film. It features a single gesture – originally intimate and sensual – that with time and repetition becomes absurd and unreal.

Veronica and Andrew are a young couple who receive a beautiful old manor house in a deserted village known as Lesne Doły as an inheritance from the girl's uncle. People living there meet the loving couple and discourage them from living there. What the couple do not see is that the village hides a dark secret by the residents for 50 years. They soon encounter inexplicable events that make them regret their decision.