From the creators of the Bolek and Lolek series come new heroes Kuba and Śruba. Join our friends Kuba and Śruba on their first big adventure. Kuba is the natural leader of this duo, but sometimes his decisions aren't the right ones. Śruba, on the other hand, is playful and always gets into trouble. Both of them will have unforgettable adventures.
The documentary contains interviews with older and younger generations of poster artists, examples of past and current poster work, historic and current film footage of where and how the poster is viewed, and commentaries from both American and Polish scholars and artists on the significance of the Polish poster as a cultural icon.
Animals locked up in a flat with the decomposing corpse of their owner try to survive. In this difficult situation one of the dogs finds out that its love for its owner is stronger than animal instinct.
With 40 years of playing together, floating on a huge wave of success Budka Suflera decided to say goodbye to her fans and prepared something special: a Przystanek Woodstock concert as their last show.
This silent film presents original materials from 1917–1921 and later reconstructions. Polonia Restituta shows the German occupation of Warsaw, the fight against Ukrainians for Eastern Galicia, the liberation of Vilnius, the Polish-Soviet war, the Polish-Ukrainian alliance and the conquest of Kiev, the Polish counteroffensive in August and September 1920 and the signing of the Treaty of Riga.
A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato
Three employees of a poultry farm, Kazik, Antek, and Paweł, are instructed by their manager to drive a truck to Warsaw and illegally deliver a batch of turkeys to important people. While carrying out the assignment, they encounter many difficulties and meet various people. Finally, weary of their troubles and discouraged, they decide to have a night picnic by the Vistula River.
Short and simple story from the time of pandemic - a poetic view of isolation, loneliness and boredom.
A film that portrays the Kafkaesque struggle of the protagonist, a female to male transsexual, as he tries to obtain identity documents that would allow him to normally function in Polish society.
People who suffer from depression are usually invisible. Society believes that this disease affects the mentally weak, spoiled by life, self-centered and unable to "pull themselves together". When someone around us suffers, we think it will pass because they are simply in a bad mood. Depression does not go away by itself, and the bad mood continues and lasts, often for months or years. How much is human endurance? The film presents 4 stories of the struggle with this extremely serious disease, in which they are repeatedly inscribed: exclusions, helplessness of doctors or suicide attempts.
Teresa Tyszkiewicz's last film is at the same time her only work realized in this medium in France, where the artist emigrated in 1982. The film features a sequence with the pin process and large-format works realized in this technique, as if the artist was making a peculiar declaration: after making ARTA, Tyszkiewicz devotes herself almost entirely to the performative and painstaking pin process.
An elderly Polish-American man, in the final stage of his life, experiences a reversion to the past. As his memories evaporate, he contends with being haunted by what he believes are ghosts. Haunted by the spectre of his ethnic identity, he receives a message from a special visitor.
Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman. The initial images, reminiscent of footage shot for patient records, reveal that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Luckily a sun-drenched day makes every walk a little better.
