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An observational look at the interaction between two elderly women: 100-year-old Ema and her six years younger sister Zosie. The camera sensitively documents how these two once famous hostesses try to bake a cake at their advanced age. In so doing, it offers a perceptive portrait of their personalities and their relationships.

Experimental animation short from Poland.

Polish avant-garde animation that presents Escheresque geometric confounding to a heavy ego bass.

The Nurse of the Poznan Hospital takes care of the newborn babies. From time to time she meets very lonely newborns that are taken away from their parents or are unwanted. All these situations are very sad. The Nurse takes care of these lonely newborns, even staying after work to make their first day better by giving them a heart therapy.

The reality presented in the film Oh God might be described using such terms as inertia or chaos. The characters feature lack of willingness to take any action, they are passive and indifferent, unable to create their own reality. The author presents a world that loses its original shapes and loses its identity. Groaning “oh God” as a main theme combines it all: grimace, sigh and a quiet whisper of despair over our own impotence.

Police officers from Wroclaw discover that a shaykh is operating in Poland to smuggle cocaine. Meanwhile, the gangsters give Constable Wysocka an ultimatum.

“Can a fascist say "I love you" in another language?” asks Johannes Gierlinger the director of Remapping the Origins. The polish city of Bialystok is the birthplace of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof a Polish medical doctor, inventor, and writer mostly known for creating Esperanto in 1873 while still in school, a constructed language that he believed could be a universal tool to help bridge the gap between different languages. But Bialystok is also the birthplace of David Abelevich Kaufman, known worldwide as Dziga Vertov, one of the most important cinema theorist ever, Soviet pioneer, revolutionary filmmaker, documentary, and newsreel director. The city is also the place where anarchistic communes were organized during the Russian Revolution and where the Nazis build a ghetto for Jews.

Commando Filip Brutecki falls in love with a teenage girl and plans a future together with her. One day the man makes a huge mistake, as a result of which his beloved breaks off the engagement. When the spy learns that the girl has been kidnapped, he wants to find her and win back her heart. The abduction forces him to return to the criminal path he once abandoned for his chosen one. Philip begins a frantic search for his fiancée, and nothing can stop him.

A witty lecture for children about the technique and production of a TV show, given by a resolute little girl, based on a program about Teddy Bear.

A film for little Staś is recorded on an amateur camera by a grownup Stan.

Portrait of a provincial family with fourteen children.