2009 Films

The 2009 Viewers' Choice Award

Drama

Drowsiness

There are people who constantly dwell in a state of emotional lethargy. They live in catastrophic relationships and, instead of making a change in their lives, they passively fade away into spiritual emptiness

Drama

Angel in Love

A sequel to "Angel in Cracow" this is a story of an angel who chooses life on earth as a human.

Drama

The Unburied Man

Based on archival documents, official records and eyewitnesses’ reports this film depicts the last two years in the life of Imre Nagy, a Hungarian Prime Minister who opposed the Soviet Union in 1956.

Drama

The Wasteland

A story of two brothers living on a small farm while taking care of their bedridden mother. They hide from her the fact that the desperate financial situation has slowly forced them to sell their farm away.

Drama

Tulips

A story of the friendship of three 60-year old men who despite their age are full of energy and joy for life.

Drama

Temptation

Anna is a young nun transferred to a rural detention center, where she re-encounters an interned cardinal for whom she has a secretive burning passion.

Drama

Pitbull

Five policemen are hunting for Said, a criminal responsible for kidnappings and murders of Georgians living in Poland.

Drama

Persona Non Grata

The expression "persona non grata" takes on multiple meanings in this psychological drama unfolding in the high stakes and morally dangerous world of international diplomacy

Drama

The Perfect Afternoon

Mikołaj and his girlfriend Anna own a small publishing company. They are to get married soon, but the failure of their first publication is distracting them from wedding planning. They are hoping for the support of Anna's parents.

Comedy

Road To Happiness

Mr. Kowalski, a philosopher, lives alone in his home with Herbert and Jerry, his two favorite plants.

Drama

Oskar

Based on a book by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: a collection of letters by a ten-year-old dying of leukemia addressed to God. This is a beautiful story about life, love and death, and the acceptance of what's inevitable.

Drama

I’ll Show You

A thirty-something divorcee enters a new relationship despite her parents and her daughter's wishes.

Documentary

The December Memento

The December Memento is a documentary film about the political crisis and tragic and bloody events which took place in Gdańsk and Gdynia in December of 1970.

Drama

Karol. The Man Who Became Pope

A biographic film about Pope John Paul II based on a book by Gian Franco Svidercoschi, titled "Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of John Paul II".

Drama

The Hero of the Year

An out-of-work television producer tries a new show in which a department store clerk who became a national hero is to meet with his fans.

Drama

The Cross-Way Cafe

A contemporary story about a group of young people who commit a serious crime to improve their financial situation.

Drama

The Collector

48 hours from the life of a ruthless debt collector.

Documentary

August

Documentary about the historical strike in the Gdansk shipyard.

Drama

Down Colorful Hill

A young man returns home from prison only to discover that his girlfriend married his brother.

Drama

The Devil

A dark, unsettling story of a butcher who hires a village wise-woman to care for his dying mother. The mother, however, is not ready to die.

Comedy

The Cruise

A stowaway sneaks on board of a Vistula cruise ship. Its captain takes him for a cultural commissar, and the intruder gladly accepts his new role.

Drama

Call of the Toad

A German and a Pole exiled from their hometowns at the end of WWII meet and fall in love in Gdańsk in 1989.

Drama

Facing Up

A twenty-year-old gang mamber gets another chance in life.

Student

The End of War

The End of War is a metaphorical story of man’s desire to hold on to their humanity, which often proves impossible in the world filled with hatred.

Drama

Palimpsest

A police inspector, involved in solving a complicated crime, is on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Drama

South - North

A young monk leaves the monastery and meets an attractive young woman. They journey together to the sea.

Drama

We Are All Christs

An alcoholic father reflects back on his life.

Drama

What the Sun Has Seen

Three individual fates interweave as each one of them tries to raise a small, but indispensable amount of money.

Drama

Cold Kenya

A young Warsaw businessman tries to reconcile his newfound wealth and success with the pain of Poland’s past.

Drama

Emily Cries

A story of first love during Martial Law in the early 80’s Poland.

Drama

The Foundation

A story of a con man who managed to deceive and manipulate the entire law enforcement system.

Student

La Varsovienne

A story of a young woman who loses her husband during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Student

The Freeway

A young boy, a motorbike and the open road.

Drama

Retrival

A young man falls in love with an illegal Ukrainian immigrant. He tries to help her, but gets involved in a criminal underworld.

Student

Evacuation

Due to unexpected changes in the weather, all the fresh water is gone.

Student

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon is a story about growing up and trying to find your own identity; it is about running away from what we would rather forget. But sooner or later it all comes back, catches us on the run and turns us back like a boomerang.

Documentary

Reflections

This is a touching film about the struggles and sacrifices of parents and children separated by immigration.

Independent

Three for the Taking

A sixteen-year-old's carefree life is interrupted by the news of her mother’s terminal illness.

Drama

He Who Has Never Lived

A young charismatic priest Jan works with troubled youth. During a routine hospital visit he learns that he is HIV positive.

Independent

Exit Author

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both.” - Harold Pinter

Independent

Alicja Wonderland

“So he sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed himself with Alicja, though he knew he had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality – the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds.”

Independent

Sequence

A man leaves his home. He cannot, however, part with the memory of a dear person he lost. He evokes images trying to reconstruct their common experiences.

Independent

Agnieszka 2039

Joy and pain go hand in hand when an angelic being is delivered the box of eternity and subjected to the fateful decision of the gods.

Student

Father

A woman returns to her childhood home and reminisces about growing up.

Independent

A Missing A

A Missing A is a sound/image construct inspired by a text by Samuel Beckett Imagination Dead Imagine and voiced by Gary Hill.

Drama

Savior’s Square

Savior’s Square unfolds within the confines of one embittered and deeply troubled Polish family.

Independent

Dorsal Ventral Asymmetry

Dorsal Ventral Asymmetry is a term in biology that describes the up-down asymmetry in animal body plan

Independent

Birdplay

A playful investigation of the potentialities in organization of forms.

Drama

Preserve

A stormy breakup with his girlfriend forces a fledgling freelance photographer to leave her luxurious apartment.

Drama

Hope

A young man witnesses the theft of a precious painting from a small Warsaw church and confronts the thief.

Documentary

John Paul II remembered by Poles around the world

This film documents mourning experienced all over the world after John Paul II's passing.

Drama

Lovers of the Year of the Tiger

An escape from Siberian exile lands the protagonist in a Chinese hunter's mountain shack.

Documentary

John Paul II – The Memories He Left Behind

Poles in North America and Western Europe share their most significant memories of Pope John Paul II.

Drama

Destined for the Blues

Based on true events, this is story of an escape from the drab reality of communist Poland into the world of music and drugs.

Drama

Immensity of Justice

A famous defense lawyer tells a young law school graduate the story of a trial which took place a long time ago

Drama

State Witness

A gangster quits criminal life for the love of a woman and becomes a state witness. A journalist with a personal vendetta interviews the gangster.

Student

Broadcast Rehearsal

A story of how very different dreams and reality can be.

Drama

Expecting Love

Ian is a wealthy, accomplished attorney practicing in California. His life is one big party. Joanna is a student from Warsaw who decides to go on vacation to Los Angeles, where she begins to work as a waitress.

Comedy

Testosterone

A story about a wedding party after a bride runs away from the altar.

Comedy

God’s Little Garden

Marian is the worst Police Academy graduate. He is assigned to a small, seemingly quiet, town.

Drama

Warsaw Dark

A young beautiful prostitute runs out of a bar into a parking lot. A fat, aging politician follows her not realizing that the prostitute is bait.

Comedy

Perfect Guy For My Girl

A composer known for being a peaceful and gentle man falls in love with a feminist instructor of Krav Maga, an aggressive form of martial arts.

Documentary

Zietek

An engaging, hugely entertaining portrait of sculptor Bogdan Zietek, a self-taught artist who has been creating life-size sculptures of women

Comedy

Lejdis

A humorous story about four average women in their thirties, their wild and strong emotions and experiences in one year.

Documentary

Children in Exile

Polish survivors of Soviet deportation to Siberia during WWII describe their experiences as the youngest victims of the deadly Soviet system.

Drama

Lekcja angielskiego

As war rages on the outside, inside one apartment a young woman and her older lover try to make a life for themselves using their imaginations.

Drama

And a Warm Heart

Konstanty, a businessman and oligarch, is confronted with a problem in which he is completely helpless

Drama

Warsaw

A film with many storylines, which all play out during a single day in winter. The main characters are linked through one city.

Drama

Jasminum

Jasminum (Latin for jasmine) is Kolski's eleventh feature film. The plot is set in a monastery in present times.

Drama

How to live?

A 30-year old Kuba is in prison for demolishing a hospital. Through conversations with his cellmate, Kuba reflects on his experiences, his approach to adulthood and what it means to have authority and values.

Documentary

Henry Vars A Songster Of Warsaw

A documentary about a famous Polish composer, Henryk Wars. A native of Warsaw, a student of Karol Szymanowski at the Warsaw Conservatory.

Documentary

Commandant Edelman

A fascinating story of one of the commandants of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising of April 1943.

Drama

Tomorrow We Are Going To the Movies

The story of three Warsaw high school graduates from the class of 1938, full of magnificent plans for the future; hopes and dreams about adult life.

Drama

John From The Tree

Jan Zawada is a well educated doctor who lives in a state of well-being and comfort.

Comedy

Extras

Perceiving sadness in the faces of the locals in a village where he is shooting an epic tragedy, an eccentric Chinese director calls for extras to lend authenticity and depth to his work.

Drama

Hania

On a Christmas Eve, Ola and Wojtek, a young childless couple, invite an orphan Kacper to their home.

Comedy

Ruby Wedding

She is a Kyokusin Karate master, he a great pianist. Above them lives Kazimierz, a pensioner.

Drama

Offsiders

Jacek was once a promising player on Poland's national soccer team. Sidelined by an injury, he's now a bitter drunk.

Drama

The Reliable System

An eighty-year-old Maria has a secret passion.

Drama

Tricks

Six-year-old Stefek believes that the course of small events he provokes will help him to draw nearer to his father, who left his mother for another woman.

Drama

All Will Be Well

Paul, a 12 year old boy living in a small town in Pomerania, prays for a miracle as his mother dies of cancer.

Drama

Outlanders

In the search for a job and better future Adam leaves his native Poland to join his older brother Jan in London.

Drama

Louise’s Garden

18-year-old Louise is a resident of a mental institution. She lives in her own world filled with fairy-like creatures.

Documentary

Tischner - Life in Stories

One of the first biographical films about Father Tischner, a writer, Catholic priest, friend to Pope John Paul II.

Comedy

It’s Not What You Think Honey

Handsome neurologist Filip Morawski is looking forward to spending a naughty weekend with a young nurse colleague named Dominika. Unfortunately, his wife may stand in his way and put a kink in his sultry plans.

Comedy

Once Again

This romantic comedy is about a mother and daughter and their entertaining adventures in love.

Drama

Drowsiness

There are people who constantly dwell in a state of emotional lethargy. They live in catastrophic relationships and, instead of making a change in their lives, they passively fade away into spiritual emptiness

Drama

Sex Change

The President’s indiscretions lead to a series of interesting and humorous events.

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