Karolina, a young Polish woman, begins a journey through Volhynia, where her family comes from. Her relatives were murdered in the so-called Volhynian massacre in 1943. This trauma constantly hurts. Karolina wanders on foot,...
Visitors to Chechnya are truly surprised by what they find there. In 2003 after a devastating war with Russia, the capital city of Chechnya- Grozny was announced to be the most destroyed city in the world, according to UNESCO....
Alexey Ščadroŭ used to work as a paramedic in an ambulance emergency service in Belarus. His ambulance was often called to collect homeless people from the streets, who were thrown away from the ambulance just after a few...
A documentary about extraordinary work of surgeons from a hospital in Trzebnica. Since the 1970s they’ve been pioneers in the field of organ transplantation. In 1971 they carried out the first and transplant in Europe. In 1988...
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...
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....