SCUM Manifesto

SCUM Manifesto 2017

1

Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in 1976 by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig that was inspired by Valerie Solanas’s infamous text of the same name. Much like Solanas’s radical feminist text, SCUM Manifesto is a form of resistance and a call to action.

2017

Hellhole

Hellhole 2022

6.13

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

2022

Faithbreaker

Faithbreaker 2023

1

Ania, after years of absence, comes to her hometown to spend the last months of her life with her mother, Mara. The girl finds Alek in the village, with whom she experienced her first adolescent love. The meeting of these two will trigger a series of unexpected events, and for Mary, it will be one of the most difficult challenges in her life.

2023

I Like Bats

I Like Bats 1986

4.10

Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.

1986

The Doll

The Doll 2026

1

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.

2026

I Love Cinema

I Love Cinema 1988

7.00

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

1988

Everyone Has a Summer

Everyone Has a Summer 2021

2.30

The clash of youthful rebellion with a conservative environment. Agata arrives in a small town near Krakow. Her job is to cook for the oasis participants. Agata’s arrival causes perturbations in the three-generation family – seventeen-year-old Mirek falls in love with her, his mother, an organist at the local church, discovers the demons of the past, and his grandfather, already suffering from dementia, sees Agata as his lover from his youth.

2021

Pal System

Pal System 2002

1

A group of students of the last year of the local motor technical school is slowly entering adult life. An atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness reigns around them. Young people have no idea for their future, but they do not want to duplicate the pattern of a poor existence according to which their parents live. One of them, Arek, had a chance to break out of this vicious circle for a moment. The possibility of a brilliant career, fame and a lot of money was opening up to him, the Polish Junior Champion in Kickboxing. Serious heart disease shattered these plans. Arek dreams of renting a flat and freeing himself from his alcoholic father. Together with Lalka, Panicz, Mucha and Renata - his closest friends, he often visits the Kosmos pub, owned by the local mafioso Marsel. One day Marsel offers Arek and Mucha a jump: they are to break into the apartment on the top floor of a skyscraper.

2002

Clergy

Clergy 2018

6.54

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

2018

Człowiek z...

Człowiek z... 1993

3.50

Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.

1993

The Hater

The Hater 2020

6.91

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

2020

Belay

Belay 2023

1

Tomek is a psychotherapist who requires help himself. His professional and personal life is in disarray and he needs to put it together again from scratch. His frustration is intensified by renovation work next door, an excessively difficult climbing route and an exceptionally well-informed patient - a stand-up comedian who approaches him with a surprising request.

2023

Silent Land

Silent Land 2022

4.90

A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

2022

Mr. Car and the Knights Templar

Mr. Car and the Knights Templar 2023

5.80

A well-known art historian, treasure hunter and owner of an unusual car stumbles upon a Templar treasure, which is the key to a great power that can upset the balance of good and evil in the world. Supported by friendly scouts, Mr. Car starts a big race against time and a hostile organization, the stake of which is the heritage of knightly orders.

2023

Entanglement

Entanglement 2011

5.81

A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.

2011

The Circus Connection

The Circus Connection 1996

1

In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild only in Poland. An old abandoned fort near the port of Gdynia is used by smugglers and international wildlife traders as a hideout to store livestock.

1996

Carte Blanche

Carte Blanche 2015

6.77

The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from everyone surrounding him - his colleagues, pupils, even the ones who really care about him, because of the fear of losing his job and trying to save his dignity. Due to a genetic disorder, Kacper is faced with a very real possibility of permanent blindness. Initially heartbroken, he attempts to hide his health problems from his bosses driven by his desire to keep his job and to help his students with the final exams. The only person who knows about Kacper's problem is his best friend Wiktor. Meanwhile, Kacper enters a relationship with his colleague Ewa, and tries to help a rebel student Klara, who hides a secret of her own.

2015

The Mole

The Mole 2011

6.70

Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.

2011

Inferno

Inferno 2001

2.00

A story about classmates from school: Anka, Inga and Xena. During the prom, two girls murder a third - considered the most beautiful of them. The film is based on real events. The creators are trying to find answers to the questions: what was the cause of the evil that appeared in the girls? Was it stuck in their interiors, or did it appear from the outside world, from the chaos of everyday life? Who was at fault? It is a story about desires, plans for the future, fears and attempts to find a place in the world.

2001