This Is Not a Bath 2022
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.
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.
‘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.
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".
A costumed, surreal journey of mumblecore to the rhythm of jazz, noise and techno....
A few scenes portraying the relationship between the Monster, and the Woman. The relationship is showed through a perverse and erotic conversation
A boy is walking through an idyllic landscape and suddenly he finds a little black square on his way. He buries it. After a while the mysterious square reappears. This time it is quite aggressive, it starts chasing the boy, destroying everything that stands in its way, it is difficult to get away from it... This meeting will irreversibly change the boy’s life... The film made under the artistic supervision of Professor Jerzy Kucia.
A swing imposes its rhythm, independent of the commentator; it forms the rhythmic score for the filmmaker's singing.
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."