Paweł and Franciszek Buchalik were just simple boys from the small village of Gotartowice in Silesia. They were primary school students and boy scouts. Funnily enough, they had the same last name even though there were not...
The film tells the story
of two people: Hiranmoy Ghoshal, a Hindu diplomat, translator, linguist, and
writer from West Bengal and his daughter Mira Ghoshal, a musicologist and expert
on Hindu music. The lives of these two...
The series presents the basic laws of physics in a spectacular way. They are explained using everyday objects in order to prove that these principles govern all aspects of our lives. Thanks to quite simple and spectacular...
As a result of the Treaty of
Trianon of 1920, a large part of the Kingdom of Hungary has been divided among
its neighbours. This movie is about the problems of the Hungarian minority in
today's Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and...
Being disabled is not a reason to give up on dreams. In many countries, there are football clubs for people after amputation. The first amp-football team in Poland was established in 2011. The story shows the struggle with the...
Central is
one of the heaviest and largest psychiatric hospitals in Siberia. We meet staff
and patients who will spend the rest of their days locked within its walls. The
building was built as a prison and for over a hundred...
It is an animated
series created using classical and combined animation inspired by various
artists e.g. Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Hans Memling, Marc Chagall and others.
The music in the background is of equal status with the...
Andrzej Wajda is interviewed by his long-time colleague Agnieszka
Holland. Among other things, Wajda talks about the creation of the X Production Studio, about the pros and cons of directing career during the communist period...
It is a story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (which means Old Blood in Polish). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as land of thousand lakes. Around 400 people from this village...
It is a story of a man coming back to reality and trying to fight his fears.
Krzysztof Miller is one of the greatest Polish war photographers. He was in
Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Congo, RPA, Uganda, Kenya,...
The incredible story of Ina
Benita, one of the most enigmatic figures of Polish cinema of the 1930s. She
was a star whose chances of a great international career were buried by war.
For years, her fate was shrouded in mystery....
When asked in final years of his life, while experiencing pain and suffering, if he would resign from his role the pope replied" "You don't come down from the cross." John Paul II's friend, Cardinal Marian...
Jan Nowak Jezioranski – a war emissary and a participant of Warsaw
Uprising is interviewed by Andrzej Wajda. They discuss the resistance movement and the sense of the Warsaw Uprising.
Jarocin used to be a unique place on the map of Eastern Europe in the Communist Block because it became a symbol of individuality, freedom and protest in the enslaving system. It was all possible, thanks to rock music. The...
This
documentary shows dramatic events that took place in Poland and their outcome
which was so significant that it inspired an American screenwriter to share the
story with the rest of the world. It is a story of the Blessed...
The issue of Jews fighting in the Uprising has not been raised much
in the media, yet in the documentary we have a chance to watch
the statements of the participants of those events: Marek Edelman,
Simcha Rotem. On top of that...
"Everyone in Poland is celebrating, including our communist brothers. Because they think that this Poland is not that bad and it is not that bad to live in if the pope was born here. Maybe I am the one that's the most...
Eight years in the making,
Magierski’s film traces Stanczak’s singular journey from Poland to the United
States and his transformation from refugee to an artist. This striking
documentary reveals a life and legacy defined by an...