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The Escape 2017
A woman and a child – two people saved by the remembrance. An apocalyptic annihilation has happened in their world. Afterimages of those traumatic events interfere the perception of reality. Woman and child are haunted by a constant sense of insecurity and danger. The surrounding world gives them no chance for the survival. Main characters exist, but as if they were dead. They meet, but they can’t see each other. They only live in those blurred by the time images of human memory.

Moomins and the Comet Chase 2010 star_border 5.5
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.

Maska 2010 star_border 7
"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.

Danny Boy 2010 star_border 6.2
A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

Walls Have Ears 2008
Satire branding unhealthy interest in the lives of others and gossip.

Peter & the Wolf 2006 star_border 6.7
An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather

Mamo, czy kury potrafią mówić? 1998
A brave little girl along side her sidekick chicken, a robot and a soldier go on a adventure in a stop-motion fantasy land to overthrow the evil Troll king and bring peace to the land.

For a Penny 1997
In this stop-motion made in the chiaroscuro style of German Expressionism, a poor man sells his face to a pawnshop for a penny, hoping to use it to buy a single lottery ticket.

Kocia Wielkanoc 1997

Dim. 1992 star_border 5.7
"Animating human-size puppets, in D.I.M. Skrobecki explores the relationship of a couple secluded in an apartment. Their meaningless life has a single justification and tenderness: they feed a little bird that comes from time to time to the windowsill." -Giannalberto Bendazzi: "Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times"

Poszukiwacze zaginionej gwiazdki 1992 star_border 5

A Tale of Two Kitties 1991 star_border 6

Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem 1989 star_border 8
A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy.

Thief 1988
A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.

Episode 1988
Reflection on the history and place of the Earth in space. Question about the role of man in subjugating nature. Does human intervention end the world as it began - a big bang.

The Event 1988 star_border 5.7

Walls 1988 star_border 5.8
An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

Academy Leader Variations 1987 star_border 5
Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

Friend of the Jolly Devil 1987 star_border 5.7
A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness and defeat him if the woodsman is to see again. During his search for the Spirit he encounters a friendly monster who helps the boy in his quest. They are able to survive every dangerous test on their way and the final confrontation.

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Flapper and Friends 2013
Enchanting stop motion animation for toddlers and young children following the jolly adventures of Flapper the Hare and his friends Pinky, Malcolm Moose, Billy Beaver, Wilbur Wolf, Fredrik Fox and Bernard Bear. Fun and frolics in Flapper's Wood as the friends work and play together. All under the watchful eye of Grandma Owl and the nosy Maggie Magpie.

Plastusiowy pamiętnik 1980 star_border 7

The Moomins 1978 star_border 7.2
A stop motion animated children's television series based on Tove Jansson's book series.

Przygody kota Filemona 1977 star_border 8

Ferdynand Wspaniały 1975

Dziwny świat kota Filemona 1972

Barnaby 1968 star_border 4
A French/Polish stop-motion animated TV series starring Colargol, a little bear who wants to sing and travel the world. The series was renamed Barnaby when it was dubbed into English and broadcast in the UK by the BBC.

Professor Tutka Club Release date not available
Professor Tutka is a storyteller in little café.

Enchanted Pencil Release date not available star_border 8
Zaczarowany ołówek is a Polish cartoon from 1964-1976 made by Se-ma-for. The serial had no dialogues. It tells a story of a boy named Piotr and his dog, aided by an enchanted pencil, which can materialize anything they draw. The 26 episodes have no linking story, but the last few are centered around heroes quest to save a shipwrecked refugee. There were 31 episodes total, and the episodes 27-31 were remade into a movie in 1991. Script: Adam Ochocki Art: Karol Baraniecki Music: Zbigniew Czernelecki and Waldemar Kazanecki