A portrait of 9-year-old Józek Lizon, an artistically talented boy living in a village near Nowy Sącz. The protagonist talks about his love of sculpting and the work of his father, a folk sculptor. Józek's wooden sculptures reflect the world of the child's experiences and sensations - his games, home activities, the boy's relatives and peers.
A fictional telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his mother on her birthday. A performative reflection on the relationship between public and private spheres in which the maker turns his back to the camera, simultaneously shielding himself, and engages the viewer in the (im)possibility of bridging the gap between the man and his mother. Capturing the intimate conversation seems to be a way of keeping a personal memory alive while it merges with the viewer’s memory.
Ups and downs in the love and professional life of Marta, a young woman from Krakow. Despite adversity and permanent bad luck Marta does not give up on her dreams of a bright future.
A great dose of humor during a celebration of one of the most popular groups. Roman Zurek, Radoslaw Bielecki and Michal Gawlinski have been entertaining audiences with jokes on a variety of topics for years. The concert "Neo-Nówka. Twentieth Anniversary" was full of improvisation and novelty, but there was no shortage of legendary figures. The Paciaciaks and Wandzia appeared on stage, and the artists also presented new versions of the famous skits "Christmas Eve" and "Heaven."
The "Rockowisko" Rock Music Festival was one of the most popular festivals of the 1980s in Poland. The report documents the latest, sixth edition of the festival, which was held at the Sports Hall in Lodz. The review's organizers note with regret the declining interest in rock music in Poland, which has affected concert ticket sales. In 1986, despite high financial outlays on advertising the festival, only 2,000 tickets were sold (for comparison - sales in 1981 amounted to 30,000). In the eyes of the audience, the festival has become commercialized, the invited bands do not play for ideas, for people, but for money. In behind-the-scenes conversations between organizers and journalists, we hear that the whole culture is in crisis, due to the economic crisis in the country, but also point to the marasm on the Polish rock scene, the lack of an invigorating sound that would attract crowds of people to concerts.
"Pierogi - stories with stuffing" are short glances towards four different worlds. The characters of the film will let you into their lives for a moment, but they don't promise to reckon how their stories will end. In fact, you can be sure they left the endings for themselves. Stuffed stories are a search for the unusual in the ordinary. It is worth absorbing this uniqueness. Remember, the door will only be ajar for a moment.
The little-known story of a group of Jewish artists in occupied Bialystok, who survived by making art forgeries for the Nazis.
Young Polish comedians Rafał Banaś and Michał Leja present a high-energy stand-up show at Warsaw's Klub Hybrydy
A young girl hitchhikes across Eastern Europe. Soon she has to find her way on her own for the first time in her life.
The film is dedicated to the memory of American surrealist Paul Sharits. Sharits sent Robakowski a film score with a proposal to use it in a film production, but the outbreak of martial law prevented the idea from being realised. The film was not made until 2004. The film was created as a result of a very rigorous, constructivist formal procedure, subordinating specific visual values to the melodic line of the musical piece. During the screening, as the notes of the composition are played, corresponding colours appear on the screen, eight colours that correspond to the notes of Fryderyk Chopin's Mazurka Op. 68 No. 4. The vibration of the changing colours and the radiance of the light create a coherent whole with the composer's nostalgic piece. The colourful fields pulsating to the rhythm of the music evoke, on the one hand, the American's structural cinema and, on the other, show the almost vital energy of colour.
The protagonists of the film, the patients of the hospice, teach us what life really is and what it could be if we just stopped for a moment to look, talk, hug and breathe.
The film is an attempt to understand the phenomenon of pilgrimage. The author analyzes what prompts people to take the trouble of a journey, to stay in it, who the pilgrim is and whether only the person who is walking.
Saxophone, Double Bass, Drums. Three little stories told through the medium of movement. A painterly visualization of the music of the band KWAŚNY DESZCZ (sour rain).
A “Puppetoon” style retelling of the tragic tale of Orpheus and his lost love. It features a very vivid rendering of the Underworld, with Hades and Persephone represented as strange iconic totems.
Batory is a Trans Man and inmate at the Warszawa-Grochów Detention Center in Poland. Truly a film inspired by the cinema-verité movement, Batory navigates having difficult conversations with his significant other and parents upon his release - showing us a unique perspective on the lives of those in other worlds.
