An actor tells and demonstrates what it was like to work on a film set in the silent era, while a sound recordist shows how much things have changed with the advent of sound cinema, demonstrating what sound recording is and what it looks like on film. The reportage is a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of a pre-war film studio.
The footage from the Chronicle of besieged Warsaw is probably the work of the cameramen of the so-called 'Starzyński team'. The fragmentary images of bombarded Warsaw, including the ruined streets of the Old Town, the burning Royal Castle, the bodies of passers-by on the pavement, were recorded in September 1939 with a view to later editing.
The titular "panopticum" means "a set of personalities", the filmmakers focus on human cruelty. People are vengeful towards animals, they are cruel to each other. Finally, people themselves fall victim to a stronger creature.
An animation describing the madness of war, which runs forward like an unleashed dog. The passing time explodes with blood until history comes full circle and gradually fades away.
The last pre-war animated film created by Włodzimierz Kowańko
A film from the documentary series "On Space Exploration Issues."
The Roma* in Poland are the largest and the most marginalised ethnic minority. Roksana identifies as both Roma (Gypsy) and Polish (Gadji). Employed as a teaching assistant, she works to keep Roma children in school as more than half leave education before the age of sixteen. She could be the perfect bridge, but each culture wants her to reject the other. Roksana, however, desires to belong.
A courtyard of an old building in Katowice. Rudolf and Romek live here. The first one is already retired, the second one is at the beginning of his educational path, but he regularly plays truant. Rudolf is Silesian, and Romek is Roma. Music became the pretext for their friendship, although as we soon find out, their musical worlds have little in common. The young hip-hop artist's lyrics, full of anger and rebellion, very slowly make themselves understood to the lover of idyllic songs about the highlanders of Beskidy. And yet, a bond gradually develops between them that allows each of them to fulfil a role they never had before: one as a grandfather, the other as a grandson…
Set against a backdrop of nostalgia for the 2000s, this experimental autobiographical documentary explores childhood memories and the fluidity of gender identity. Through animated family photographs and satellite images, it contrasts the soft, tactile nature of analog photography with the rigidity of digital definitions. The film examines how masculinity and social conventions shape the self, leading the protagonist into the darker corners of Poznań in a search for meaning and freedom.
