Loneliness affects many elderly people. Thankfully, there are also those who do not succumb to the current of life and prefer to take matters into their own hands. The film centres on six pensioners, who arrive at the...
In the centre of the Old Continent, on Poland’s eastern border and the western limits of Belarus, beats the heart of Europe’s last lowland Primeval Forest, as it has for thousands of years.
A documentary film about Zbigniew Herbert, an extraordinary poet and a moral guide, who struggled with depression and mental illness. His bravery allowed him to explore his creative side and live, as he described it: “against...
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...
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...
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...