Poland Movies

Janusz Majewski adapts Prosper Mérimée’s 1835 tale of the same name, centering on a mysterious statue unearthed in a provincial town. The figure, sculpted as a tormented woman, becomes an ominous presence during a wedding celebration. When the groom impulsivel...

A morning in a Warsaw apartment. After eight years of living together, a man and a woman discover that nothing unites them anymore. They make an attempt to get to the cause of their relationship crisis. Mutual resentments and accusations make the situation eve...

A young man tries to get rid of his inseparable Guardian Angel, who looks like a secret agent. A peculiar game of hide-and-seek on the university campus ends in failure for the pursued - the Guardian Angel seems to be omnipresent...

Classical animation made on celluloid. Music by Ludvig van Beethoven (Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59).

A boy plays alone in a well of a big city yard. His mother, being in their tenement flat, passes him an empty bottle using a string. The boy has to go to a shop. His alcohol fun begins – at an off-licence shop, at a purchasing centre, at a gate.

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.

First days of the War Alina, one of the film’s protagonists, disabled after leg surgery, spends alone with the cat, in her home in a small city near Kyiv. She looks for the ways to escape. The bridges are destroyed. Alina manages to find the only road useful a...

A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war.

‘Hands up, it’s a holdup!’ – is what two women who decided to rob a bank could have shouted. But they took the money without uttering a word, got into a convertible and darted away. This story begins like an enhanced version of ‘Thelma and Louise’; however, it...

Portrait of Tadeusz Jaworski, one of the first graduates of PWSFTviT, and an unjustly forgotten filmmaker who was expelled from Poland in March '68 for his Jewish origins.

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?

The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.

A film about juvenile courts.

The gardener Lawrence was old and could not be able to work in the garden. He asked for the help of random passers-by, but it was only school children who saved him from the trouble.

A documentary tale about sport and politics under martial law. All of Poland saw the great goals of Boniek and Smolarek during the Espana '82 championships. For a moment, it was forgotten that the background of the sporting performance was martial law, censors...

Until now, they have stood on the sidelines. They have not appeared before the cameras. They have not taken part in public discussion. It is mainly to them that the documentary film by the well-known journalist Ewa Ewart was devoted. It shows the face of the S...

On the screen, divided into two symmetrical parts, we see almost identical, seemingly abstract images covered with black salt. After a while, we see the silhouette of a woman and a man in the shapes, and atmospheric music complements the image of their relatio...

After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.

The documentary depicts the process of making the film adaptation of Jerzy Pilch's novel, 'Under a Strong Angel'.