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Films by Director: A-Ą-B-C-Ć-D

Man of Marble

Człowiek z Marmuru

The year 1976. In the corridor of the television building Agnieszka – an almost graduate film maker – is persuading an 'important' editor into making a movie about Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer and labor leader, whose brilliant career ended suddenly and unexpectedly sometime around 1952. After some negotiations the girl finally gets a tape and necessary equipment. Private 'investigation' begins, aiming at determining the causes of the success and fall of Birkut. While learning the history of his dramatic life, Agnieszka finds out and discloses the bitter truth about the 1950s – the period of Stalinism in Poland.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda - 1976
Autsajder

Autsajder

The protagonist of the film is Franek, a student of painting. By coincidence he becomes involved/entangled in the cogs of a horrific totalitarian machine. His sensitivity and humanity will be heavily tested. A story inspired by true events from the martial law period and the early 1980s.

Directed by Adam Sikora - 2018
The Crystal Girl

Kryształowa Dziewczyna

The film follows a few people in their twenties experiencing young love – Adrian, Jacus, Wasyl, and Wiesia, the Crystal Girl.

Directed by Artur Urbański - 2016
A Simple Story About Murder

Prosta Historia o Morderstwie

Jacek is a young policeman who tries to protect his mother and brothers from their despotic father, also a policeman but with illegal business dealings. When the father is murdered, Jacek becomes the main suspect. While trying to prove his innocence, he discovers, to his horror, that he is becoming more and more like his father.

Directed by Arkadiusz Jakubik - 2016
Independent & Short Film Showcase 2

We’ve selected some of the best films from the submissions we received from independent filmmakers and emerging artists both locally and internationally and have crafted two very special programs.

Directed by various directors - 2016
Independent & Short Film Showcase 1

We’ve selected some of the best films from the submissions we received from independent filmmakers and emerging artists both locally and internationally and have crafted two very special programs.

Directed by various directors - 2016
Persona Non Grata

Persona Non Grata

Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II.

Directed by Cellin Gluck - 2015
Strange Heaven

Obce Niebo

Based on true events. Social thriller built on misunderstandings of people acting in good faith but with contradictory goals.

Directed by Dariusz Gajewski - 2015
Chemo

Chemia

A young man in crisis meets a woman in the late stage of cancer, and they wrestle with the decision to start a family.

Directed by Bartosz Prokopowicz - 2015
Spitfire Liberator: The Alex Herbst Story

A documentary about Alex Herbst, 95, currently the oldest Polish born pilot, member of the famous WWII RAF’s Polish 303 Squadron based in London.

Directed by Sławomir Ciok - 2015