Movies

Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria,...

A haunting, austere ballad about a knight’s quest for a gold-stringed harp whose sound is said to bring peace and harmony. The film’s...

A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his...

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a...

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands,...

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who...

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison,...

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the...

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.

The story of three people and their complicated emotional relationship. A mother and her 30-year-old son live in a poor neighborhood in a big city....

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a...

Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.

The action takes place somewhere among fields, meadows, and forests. The protagonists are simple but extraordinary people: Janka, a dwarf; Morka, a...

1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to...

An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.