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

Kisieland

Kisieland 2012

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A documentary presenting Radziszewski's meeting with Ryszard Kisiel, a personality behind the first East-Central European gay-zine, Filo and 're-discovered' by the director. The backdrop of the film is Kisiel's hitherto hidden archive, consisting of dozens of color slides, documenting photo shoots organized by Kisiel and his friends in a private apartment. The photos taken in 1985 and 1986 may be considered a direct reaction to the Polish anti-gay militia campaign ('Hiacynt'), during which the Secret Police collected information about homosexuals in Poland using them later for blackmail.

2012

Wild Records!

Wild Records! 2001

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This cartoon documentary shares trivia and fun facts about animals who break world records, from super-clean mice to ants who are always pregnant.

2001

Squaring The Circle

Squaring The Circle 2018

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At first glance, it seems that Square lives in a chaotic and endlessly changing geometry. But the systems in which he functions are constantly repeated, introduce a daily routine, hypnotize without allowing any movement. Once, a new element sneaks into the pattern, which for a moment will allow Square to view reality from a different angle.

2018

Re-Cycle

Re-Cycle 2019

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Living a solitary life in a world without light or hope, the central character is engrossed in the pursuit of his lost past. The cycle he fell into after losing everything is the only one he knows. It is also a personal prison he can no longer free himself from.

2019

And We'll Be Happy Again

And We'll Be Happy Again 2019

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A portrait of the family life in the face of the mother’s passing away. Three growing children, including the film director, have accompanied the ill woman for good or for bad, while in the background there are incidents, incomprehensible at first sight, related to the conflict with the confrontational father. The documentary utilises the means typical for home video and the takes shot using a mobile phone, which are arranged into a non-chronological reconstruction of the state of mind of the three young people.

2019

Blindly

Blindly 2018

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Polish artist Artur Zmijewski asked a group of visually impaired people to paint the world as they see it. Some of the volunteers were congenitally disabled; others became blind in their lifetime. In the film they draw self-portraits and landscapes, occasionally asking the artist for instructions or giving verbal explanation for their decisions. Their paintings are clumsy and abstract. It is however not the resulting works but the process of making them that is at the core of the film.

2018