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Grandmamauntsistercat 2024 star_border 7
Film created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, telling the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandist tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a locus of auto-fictional memories, with their scientific register shifted towards a treatment of images themselves as specimens.

Space Sailors 2010
They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?

Człowiek ze studni 1991

A Nice Day 1988
Among Jan Jakub Kolski’s short films, critics assign special significance to “Ładny dzień / A Nice Day”, which tells the story of two elderly people who spend their time taking care of their old horse.

Stanisław i Anna 1987
The 17th century, the reign of King Władysław IV. The half-siblings of Stanisław and Anna Oświęcim have been linked by love since childhood. During the feast, a conflict arises between Stanisław and Zebrzydowski, Anna's competitor. Stanisław is wounded in a duel. Anna bandages him in her room. There is a rapprochement between them. Stanisław leaves for the Vatican to obtain a dispensation from the Pope for a wedding with Anna. Meanwhile, Anna repents, misses, prays and refuses to eat. Not a single word is spoken in the movie. The mood is built by Karłowicz's music.

Ludożerca 1987

Rat Pack 1986 star_border 7.2
Szczurolap is a powerful analogy to the aims of an authoritarian society to destroy dissidents.

Ludowa Wizja Kosmosu 1986

War Song 1986
A film based on an improvised narration by a young boy about war.

Rok w Kombinacie Rolnym Kietrz 1986

Tumor Witkacego 1985
The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Witkacy is one of the outstanding European artists of the early twentieth century. Author of many short stories and plays translated into eighteen languages. Author of his own philosophical system, art theorist, painter of Formist paintings and portraits, a man who left behind a legend of a unique personality.

Jak mnie kochasz 1985

Ślizgiem do nieba 1985

Polski bohater współczesny 1984

Sąd nad Braćmi Polskimi 1984
A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi 1983
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

On Snow 1981
A boy tries to tame a horse in a large forest clearing covered with snow.

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