MVP 2018
A basketball champion is fighting his worst enemy, himself. MVP is a short film about overcoming our weaknesses and fighting against the barriers we normally face.
A basketball champion is fighting his worst enemy, himself. MVP is a short film about overcoming our weaknesses and fighting against the barriers we normally face.
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.
A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato
A subtly and sensitively told story of a daughter’s complicated relationship with her father. She sets off on a journey to see the man who abandoned her in the past. Her father lets her into his flat and tries to answer her questions. Together, they pore over the letters they have written to each other over the years. She cleans his flat and sets both her father’s world and her own relationship with him in order. A difficult confrontation arises between them. This is a film about a daughter’s profound longing for her father and the acceptance of the fact that it is longing which will never be appeased.
A short animated Polish film.
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.
A musician wants to get away from the city for a while. Unfortunately, not all the problems are a matter of where you are.
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.
experimental short film
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.
At Żmijewski and Paweł Althamer’s invitation a group of artists fills a few rooms at the Warsaw art school. All the works take the human body, that indispensable theme for any art education, as their point of departure. Past and future meet when Żmijewski's former professor joins the group. A homage to art school.
A group of deaf-mute students sing mass at a church in Warsaw. Accompanied by a dolorous organ they express themselves in a hitherto impossible way. The students cannot hear themselves or one another, but music is music. Particularly in God’s ears.
Welcome to the set of "The Wolf And The Sheep". The role of the Wolf is played by a woman, the role of the Sheep is played by a man who is - gay. These characters, ambiguous in various ways, are forced into an unambiguous film form (symbolising social conventions). Horror is mixed with slapstick comedy and the protagonists struggle like animals in a black-and-white tape cage.
"Little hot summer" are four stories that have little to do with reality, connected with the figure of the ubiquitous Father Dobrodziej.
A documentary presenting the story of a monk and exorcist, Matteo da Agnone. Murder, Love and Forgiveness. Evidence from the late 16th and early 17th centuries and testimonies that will not leave you indifferent. Who was Matteo? What do the archives of the town of Agnone hide? How did the Vatican react to the story? These questions are answered by Fr. Cipriano de Meo, Fr. Nazareno M. Galullo, a charismatic priest, and Prof. Maria Cristina Melloni, an Italian history researcher.