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Yuma (2012) Piotr Mularuk, Jakub Gierszal, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jakub Kamienski
YUMA is a gripping drama about the rise and fall of Zyga – a Polish kid in his early twenties Read More »
Blind Chance (1987) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek’s life. Read More »
Memoirs of a Sinne (1986) Wojciech Has, Piotr Bajor, Maciej Kozlowski, Janusz Michalowski
The 18th century tale of a youngster whose memories, recounted after death Read More »
The Contract (1980) Krzysztof Zanussi, Leslie Caron, Maja Komorowska, Tadeusz Lomnicki
The events take place in a villa of a wealthy doctor on the occasion of the family wedding. Read More »
Ida (2013) Pawel Pawlikowski, Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
In Poland in 1962, Anna is a novice, an orphan raised by nuns in the convent. Read More »
Camouflage (1977) Krzysztof Zanussi, Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul-Podlasky
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. Read More »
Killing Auntie (1985) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Wladyslaw Dewoyno, Krystyna Feldman, Wieslaw Golas
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old’s mind. Read More »
Partings (1961) Wojciech Has, Lidia Wysocka, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Gustaw Holoubek
A middle-aged actress comes back to her hometown for her grandfather’s funeral after many years of absence. Read More »
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) Aleksander Ford, Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. Read More »
Faraon (1966) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
The story, based on actual historic events, concerns an invented ruler Ramses XIII (Jerzy Zelnick) Read More »
A Boring Story (1982) Wojciech Has, Marek Bargielowski, Wladyslaw Dewoyno, Ewa Frackiewicz
A professor of medicine, known and recognized, through a serious personal crisis. Read More »
Forefathers (1989) Tadeusz Konwicki, Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Pietek-Górecka, Artur Zmijewski
In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. Read More »
Field of Dogs (2014) Lech Majewski, Michael Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jedrusik
Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. Read More »
Man of Iron (1981) Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love Read More »