Byc

Byc 1967

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Marian Marzyński's documentary is a recording of circus artists' rehearsals. The director manages to show not only the physical effort of the acrobats, but, above all, their emotions and their striving for perfection and struggle with their own limitations. The camera focuses especially on the partnerships of the athletes working in pairs. It shows their interdependence on the way to the best possible performance of the trained acrobatic routine, based on the precise delineation of roles and mutual trust.

1967

Martwy sezon

Martwy sezon 1970

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The story of a young, talented man for whom poetry became the only meaning of existence. He paid the highest price for it. In the film, his loved ones recall their memories of Rafal Wojaczek: his fiancée, friends and, in archival sound recordings, his late parents and brother Andrzej. The filmmakers visited with the camera places important to the poet: his hometown of Mikolow, where his "poem-making" began, and Wroclaw, where he spent the last six most creative, but also most turbulent years of his life. For the first time, unknown manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drawings by Rafal Wojaczek collected at the Ossolineum in Wroclaw were published in this film.

1970

Old Age is Worse than Fascism

Old Age is Worse than Fascism 1970

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Old age. It affects everyone and there is no cure for it. Stanislaw and Maria are elderly and are slowly losing their ability to live independently. Their daughter Ewa comes to their aid when she discovers her mother's embarrassing problem. Because of this, women go on the warpath. The film shows how important it is to call a spade a spade - especially in the bosom of the family. Facing difficult challenges together turns out to be - in itself - an important therapeutic tool and at the same time integrating family bonds.

1970

Comments

Comments 1970

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A collection of comments, taken from a video of a gunfight in Syria. Oh, the humanity!

1970

Patrik

Patrik 1978

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African National Congress activist Patrik Mabinda comes to Poland to talk about his fight for freedom in South Africa. Shots from the meeting with students of the Polish Language Center are interspersed with shots from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which Mabinda visits.

1978

Oni

Oni 2007

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This film is a kind of experiment conducted by Artur Żmijewski on representatives of four social groups in Poland. He invited people associated with the left wing, elderly ladies strongly expressing their pro-church stance, young representatives of the Jewish minority, and members of the Młodzież Wszechpolska political group to participate in this project. The first task for each group was to create a symbol of the Polish state as they understood it. These symbols were then placed on T-shirts distributed to the project participants. This was followed by a confrontation between all the groups, together with the boards they had previously created with the symbol of Poland, during which further tasks received from the director were performed. Representatives of a given group could, for example, add something to another group's symbol or remove something from it, etc.

2007

The Contrast or Illusion

The Contrast or Illusion 2023

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We are exposed to evaluations every day. The norm by which they are made is usually out of our hands.

2023

Fishbone of Time

Fishbone of Time 2023

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A short story about being late and fear of passing the time.

2023