Such a Beautiful Town

Such a Beautiful Town 2019

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In order to confront her unfaithful partner, a young woman embarks on a lonely journey throughout the city, and with each subsequent street it becomes more stifling and unsympathetic.

2019

Grandma's Day

Grandma's Day 1970

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The story of a 83-year old granny who recently started using Facebook.

1970

Lola

Lola 1970

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Karol is performing as a drag queen, Lola. He's trying to fit into the new environment and find his true self.

1970

Her Painting

Her Painting 1970

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The documentary deals with the topic of body positivity and shows how different we can be depending on the environment.

1970

Fight

Fight 1979

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Picture of a fight between two women in which the victim is a judge - a man. 'Re-discovered' film by Jadwiga Singer.

1979

Destruction

Destruction 1978

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One of the structural films by Jadwiga Singer, showing relations between photo image, film record and reality. "Destruction" can also be interpreted as metaphor of Singer`s personal situation.

1978

Forced Response

Forced Response 1976

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In "Forced Response", Jolanta Marcolla goes out to the crowded city streets with a camera operator to confront passersby with the camera and provoke their reactions, thus shaking them out of the fast-paced rhythm of urban everyday life.

1976

The Limits of Human Possibilities

The Limits of Human Possibilities 1984

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“The Limits of Human Possibilities” is an example of on-camera performance, a sequence of poses reminiscent of asanas in yoga adapted by the artist, for which the outline of a mountain range is a kind of point of reference.

1984

Gurgacz. Kapelan Wyklętych

Gurgacz. Kapelan Wyklętych 2018

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In post-war Poland, Father Wladyslaw Gurgacz served the Fatherland. Several years later, he was sentenced to death for his actions.

2018

Homo Politicus

Homo Politicus 2016

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The demons of extreme nationalism regularly recur in Poland. Likewise, a growing level of internal social and political polarization. For the last few years the celebrations of the Independence Day ended up in violent demonstrations, the devastation of Warsaw and brutal clashes between the extreme nationalist elements with the police and leftist activists. Internal conflicts and political tensions had been growing in the days preceding the parliamentary elections. Protests, demonstrations and manifestations. Tensions were growing. On the 25th of October 2015 the elections took place. The effects of the elections, resulting in democratic crisis, are all widely commented not only in Poland.

2016

What Happens When Children Don't Eat Soup

What Happens When Children Don't Eat Soup 2012

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Two siblings watched by their grandfather sit at the table and struggles to finish their soup. The children don't want to eat, they scoop the soup up reluctantly, looking for a possible way to break free from the table. When the door opens, and the bright light hits the room, the children run out and find themselves in a completely different reality.

2012

Concert

Concert 2007

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A man-orchestra plays a concert you have never heard before By Michal Socha

2007

Beyond the Wall

Beyond the Wall 2007

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A walking area, work in the tailor’s workshop, a modest meal, an everyday dose of medications taken under the control of medical personnel, an extremely crowded cell – it is a day like every day. No needless words. A moving story of Russian prisoners who have been put into a psychiatric hospital to serve their sentences. It was filmed in Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Syczowce (Smolensk Oblast).

2007

Straszydła

Straszydła 1983

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Reporter Egon Ryś accidentally meets Scarecrow. He decides to give him a ride to the scarecrow convention, seeing it as a good topic for an article. The chairman of the meeting, Beelzebub, states that no one is afraid of them anymore, so they should start helping people instead of scaring them. Most of the ghosts are delighted with this idea, but the nobleman Boruta is opposed. He decides to sabotage his colleagues' activities.

1983

Locus

Locus 2016

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Every traveler knows this feeling: moving landscape, rhythmical rumble of the train and a head full of thoughts. Time slows down encouraging an inner journey, as a lonely woman sinks deeper and deeper into her memories. She is traveling to her family: to an absent husband and her child whom she can't learn to miss. She's coming back but in her thoughts she's traveling again. Space-time turns, departures and returns mix into a confusing life journey. In the empty train drama slowly evolves.

2016