A documentary film about the life and work of 66-year-old Piotr Sudoł, a collector of dry bread. The director, talking about the film, described the title character as follows: "Mr. Chlebek was a person so extraordinary that everything he did had a deeper meaning for him. What mattered to him was not money, but an idea. He wanted to make people realize that they should respect bread and food". Three months after shooting, the protagonist was hit by a car while working.
Single retirees Karol and Felicja are getting married. She is a type of a complex old maid. The war took his wife and children from him, but nevertheless he did not lose his serenity. He looks after his paralyzed neighbor. Soon she commits suicide. Under the influence of this event, the bitter Felicja changes.
Two brothers on the threshold of adulthood still live with their mother and grandmother. In an apartment, they fight for even the smallest bit of autonomy, and each of them has a different strategy for moving around this difficult terrain. However, the family portrait is not complete - it lacks the father, whose significant absence returns with a dull tone in the telephone receiver.
A well-known actor, Bogumił Kobiela, appears on the beach in Sopot, where he does various strange and funny things for sunbathers, incl. changes into winter overalls and goes for a walk in skis, pretends to be a lifeguard controlling the possession of swimming cards, says goodbye to accidentally met sunbathers as a departing vacationer.
It is a parable about the inhabitants of Przechwałków. They could not come to terms with who was doing the most important work. Their quarrels shattered the unity in the city, which led to a threat.
In the film Warsaw 88-89 we observe the city on the eve of the coming changes, captured on VHS tape. Tomasz Dominik and Piotr Rozbicki capture interesting, distinctive details - an unusual balcony, inscriptions on the walls, beautiful but dilapidated architectural details - from the gray reality of shabby tenement houses, blocks of flats, squalid courtyards. In the background we can observe the political, economic and cultural context of the period: lifestyle, cars, clothes, texts on walls. In the public space the sphere of the sacred mixes with the profane.
On January 27, 1952, the draft Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland was announced. The history of over a hundred years of popular struggle is illustrated by paintings, from Artur Grottger to contemporary artists of socialist realism.
The story of Witold Pilecki, soldier of the Home Army and the anti-communist underground, prisoner and organizer of the resistance movement in Auschwitz, sentenced to death in 1948. The starting point is the documentary record of the extraordinary review of the trial of Pilecki and his fellow prisoners in 1990.
Zmijewski decided to persuade a former World War II concentration camp prisoner to "renew" his prisoner number, tattooed on the man's forearm. We see Zmijewski talking to Józef Tarnawa, a 92-year-old former prisoner of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, in a tattoo parlour. Tarnawa answers questions about life in the camp. He is still hesitant, unsure whether a "restored" number will still be authentic.
Graphic afterimages of photos documenting the Holocaust: the architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau, bodies thrown on wires, skeletons of those who died of hunger, close-ups of the faces of people who got off the train. Plastic forming turns them into abstract stains. The film begins with an inscription carved in the wall. It says ‘Later definitely there will be no camps, there will be no states, people will not kill themselves’. It explains the intent of the title. Modern people live in too much of a rush to remember this.
The artist Małgorzata Goliszewska's journey to Rotterdam, accompanied by incessant phone calls from her mother, brilliantly illustrates the mechanisms of producing fear and a sense of constant threat.
Poland. A young writer is doing research for his new book, when his brother returns home early with a mysterious box - an unforeseen event that will force the boy to come to terms with himself and his family.
A journey through the world illustrating the problems faced by modern man - the effects of his own activity.
Sightless main character, fascinated by an ancient description of a peculiar animal, decides to find one and get some personal experience. Accompanied by his three blind friends, he starts an intriguing journey in search of the mysterious creature. They are led through a mixture of various scents and noises to finally reach their goal. Each character, relying on his senses, gets a very different impression of the elephant.
How'd you find me / I've tried to stay hid? / As that underground kid / In crimson tight fits...
"Projectile Catcher" is a magic trick in which an illusionist catches a bullet fired at him. This is one of the most dangerous tricks. This trick cost the lives of at least 15 illusionists. One of the most drastic cases is the death of the Polish magician Madame DeLinsky, who appeared alongside her husband in 1820 in front of Prince Shwarznberg- Sonderhausen. This animation is loosely inspired by their tragedy.
"Buddies" is a grotesque, symbolic film about dynamic interpersonal relations, showing man as a being both funny and destructive.
"Skull" is a stop motion animation combining object and plasticine animation. Inspired by the process of reconstructing the face of people who died centuries ago. It's an expression of creation, the pain of being, the cycle of life and death. What would the restored human say?
