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In a certain tenement house, a resident of the top floor once again makes life difficult for his neighbors. Neighbors are forced to react to his behavior.

"Dear Mr. President!" - this is how Zosia Kaczynska titled her letter, asking Boleslaw Bierut - on behalf of herself and her three siblings - to release her mother from prison. This letter did not reach the addressee. Most of the requests for clemency, written by convicts and their relatives, already at the beginning of their journey to the head of state received a note in the prosecutor's office or court: leave without further course. Historian and archivist Janusz Kotanski and former political prisoner Janusz Horodniczy followed in the footsteps of documents found in the archives in search of those harmed by Stalin's repressive apparatus.

The documentary shows the opening of the Zdzisław Beksiński Gallery in Sanok—the world's largest exhibition of the artist's works, fulfilling his last will and testament.

The film focuses on unknown or little-known aspects of the life and work of Zdzisław Beksiński—from the time when he lived and worked in his hometown of Sanok, designing futuristic bus models for a local factory, through the moment when he left the city in a huff, burning some of his paintings (photographs of this event!), through his "Warsaw" period, the death of his wife and son, his return to his artistic roots, and ending with the last minutes before his death.

‘Keczupowo’ is a fictional kind of fever dream re-imagination, based upon memories and connections of Natalia’s place of birth, ‘Włocławek’ Poland. She grew up in Belgium but has spent a lot of times visiting the city together with family. The film is a representation of her double-sided feeling every time she visits the place, which is nostalgic sentiment on the one hand, and alienation, eeriness or loneliness on the other. ‘Keczupowo’ is Polish for ‘Ketchuptown’.

A short story about eating disorders. When the main character gets smaller, her alter ego floating in the cup grows bigger.

Halina is one of the last funeral singers in Podlasie. Her son Andrzej is a gravedigger. Thousands of people have crossed to the other side accompanied by them. He dug, she sang.

Impressions of Elisabeth of Bavaria's, Queen of the Belgians, visit to Poland in 1955.

Wasko analyses the relationship between space, sound (the microphone), and image (the camera). In this film/performance, the viewer becomes an active participant of the projection by making it possible to translocate sound from the visible space to the invisible space, and back.

In 2019 she became famous again when the decision to censor her works taken by the Director of the National Museum spurred a wave of protests. But the art of Natalia LL was controversial as early as in the 1960s. In collaboration with her husband, an artist himself, she created art that was shocking at the time.

Mieczysław Jahoda, a cameraman and pioneer of photographic techniques, was a champion of mood creation. The film is a reminiscence about the author of such Polish classics as "Knights of the Teutonic Order", "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" or "How Far, How Near".

What would the world be like without humans? Closed cafés, loungers with no one to sit on them and empty parking lots may indicate an approaching apocalypse. It seems as if there is no life in this sterile world, but is it true? Adaptation of a poem by Sara Teasdale ‘There will come soft rains’ written in 1918.

An intimate take on the emotions related to awaiting a baby and the grief after the infant’s loss. The pain accompanying the parents was depicted by means of visual symbols and metaphors. An economical, surreal story about a personal tragedy which, at the same time, is a remarkably beautiful observation of the love between two people who are trying to overcome a trauma together.

A costumed, surreal journey of mumblecore to the rhythm of jazz, noise and techno....

A genius and also a madman, Dr. La Morte - a person who sincerely hates Poland - fanatically wants to launch our country into space. This is because he considers Poland an unnecessary country on the map of the modern world, mainly due to the lack of great achievements of its inhabitants in any field of art or science. To fight the doctor stands, of course, Engineer Walczak - a great, dedicated patriot.