Populär Från Poland

A small village, a sleepy winter landscape, a dairy farm. Suddenly, one of the calves is taken away from its safe home and put in a tractor trailer.

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

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.

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.

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.

The concert "The Best of Maanam" took place in Krakow in 1994, where the band performed their greatest hits. The whole thing was recorded by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on TVP Kultura.

Gradually – ever so gradually – a young woman becomes one with her plants.

The film „Reverberation” comprises recordings of five music performances that took place in peripheral spaces of Silesia. The performances were held in temporary “non-places” of undetermined statuses. These areas became filled with unwanted music – unpleasant noise driven out of urban spaces. The premise behind the film project involved seeking new contexts for marginal sound; the consecutive segments-concerts made up a tale of man’s acting in a space, while the noise generated by the artists became a metaphor of man’s interference with the environment.

First piece of material documentation of Neurobot has been created in the project Normal Subjects, which centered on the futility of brain-mapping procedures and long-forsaken science of phrenology, as opposed to "normal" daily postures and routines by various subjects shown in 3-minute video loops, accompanied by 3-minute compositions.

Despite the increase in Polish people’s awareness when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV/AIDS, they are still a taboo subject, a substitute topic, an unsaid one. This way, the number of people exposed to virus transmission increases. Silence is not the solution. The story depicted in the film revolves around the presence of HIV/AIDS in Poland. It deliberates over tolerance and social attitude towards this problem, over openness and eventually anxiety. People living with the virus and those who live in ignorance saying “But that doesn’t apply to me” both fall victim’s to this anxiety.

Human skin is a leather cover for the interior. We will leave our covers just like abandoned coats in wardrobe.

Among the penguins living on a rocky island there was one who went on his own ways. He dreamed of rising into the air. After one of the unsuccessful attempts, he dropped into the water and caught a gold fish that turned him into a balloon for his wishes. Fascinated by the plane, he asked the fish to become a great machine. He flew around the world. He introduced confusion on air routes and disrupted the work of radars. Tired he returned to the island and fell like a dead man. After waking up, he happily joined the other penguins.

A little car, brought to school by its parents, decides to play truant.

A young Belarusian artist leaves her husband behind in Minsk to visit her friend, the elderly painter Andrzej Strumillo, in his idyllic manor house in Poland. It’s a fairy-tale place, surrounded by marshland and a river. There are horses, for which the two artists share a passion, as well as dogs. It has been two years since her last visit. For her, the trip offers a welcome diversion from city life; for him, it’s a break from a lonely existence marked by old age: a curved spine, painful knees. “It’s sad life’s so short,” he says.