محبوب از جانب Poland

A short documentary showing people working on railway tracks.

A portrait of the family life in the face of the mother’s passing away. Three growing children, including the film director, have accompanied the ill woman for good or for bad, while in the background there are incidents, incomprehensible at first sight, related to the conflict with the confrontational father. The documentary utilises the means typical for home video and the takes shot using a mobile phone, which are arranged into a non-chronological reconstruction of the state of mind of the three young people.

Olaf is 25 years old and lives with his mom and grandmother in a tenement house in the Kazimierz district in Krakow. Their home is actually quite dilapidated. Yet the young man dreams that the house in Brzozowa Street is the centre of the universe. The unique narrative is enhanced by a surreal impression of living in an abandoned house. Olaf notices metaphysical consequences of living in the vicinity of a square shaped like the “eye of god”: “There are moments when my mind transcends time and space” he says.

The concert "The Best of Maanam" took place in Krakow in 1994, where the band performed their greatest hits. The whole thing was recorded by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on TVP Kultura.

30 Sound Situations is a performance which maps the acoustic properties of numerous divergent environments. In each situation, the artist stands in front of the camera (at various distances) and claps two pieces of wood against one another with sweeping gestures. The resulting sounds relate directly to the presented spaces, including: classroom, library, staircase, woodshop, backyard, and park, among others. Waśko taps into various sound effects in order to examine the potential for creating a new representation of space in film.

First piece of material documentation of Neurobot has been created in the project Normal Subjects, which centered on the futility of brain-mapping procedures and long-forsaken science of phrenology, as opposed to "normal" daily postures and routines by various subjects shown in 3-minute video loops, accompanied by 3-minute compositions.

Despite the increase in Polish people’s awareness when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV/AIDS, they are still a taboo subject, a substitute topic, an unsaid one. This way, the number of people exposed to virus transmission increases. Silence is not the solution. The story depicted in the film revolves around the presence of HIV/AIDS in Poland. It deliberates over tolerance and social attitude towards this problem, over openness and eventually anxiety. People living with the virus and those who live in ignorance saying “But that doesn’t apply to me” both fall victim’s to this anxiety.

A historical documentation of a public manifestation at Plac DEfilad in Warsaw, on October 24th 1956, where Wladyslaw Gomolka, the new First Secretary of the Polish United Worker's Party, was making a speech to an audience of more than four hundred thousand people. Gomolka's election was not approved by Khrustchev and sparked hope for new socialism, with "human face".

A documentary tackling the subject of living in the ruins of Warsaw. This austere portrait of the capital of Poland consists of static images: the camera is positioned to show the new city "logo" - the Palace of Culture and Science. However, after 13 years of rebuilding, Warsaw looks empty.

Documentary Short by Jerzy Ziarnik

Human skin is a leather cover for the interior. We will leave our covers just like abandoned coats in wardrobe.

Colorful impression for the youngest spectators explaining the differences between the circle and the ball, and showing the possibility of turning the circle into an ellipse.

Among the penguins living on a rocky island there was one who went on his own ways. He dreamed of rising into the air. After one of the unsuccessful attempts, he dropped into the water and caught a gold fish that turned him into a balloon for his wishes. Fascinated by the plane, he asked the fish to become a great machine. He flew around the world. He introduced confusion on air routes and disrupted the work of radars. Tired he returned to the island and fell like a dead man. After waking up, he happily joined the other penguins.

A fairytale about a dragon.

Twelve year old Krzyś who supports his unemployed parents by collecting scrap metal was a hero of the film “Hercules”. After they had seen the film, the two young people, Sergiusz and Kasia, were so moved by the boy’s fate that they decided to help him. They took him on holiday, first to Warsaw where they live and then to the seaside. The odds are that it was not a one-off example of help and the boy’s fate will improve considerably in the future.

On an empty beach, boy meets girl - who sometimes swears uncontrollably. She is fascinated with the control he has over the kite his flying. He is fascinated with her presence. Turns out, weirdness is not as rare as we all assume.