2012 Films

The 2012 Viewers' Choice Award

Comedy

Letters to Santa

On this one, special day of the year, five women and five men will learn that there is no escape from love and Christmas.

Short

Mika

Having survived a car accident Mika believes that life is just about luck, especially love life. Will she cross paths with her soul mate? Can she really influence her fate?

Short

Emperor’s Toys

A story of an unusual collection of toys and their owner.

Independent

Resettlement

A unique Polish couple in their 80's. After living in their apartment for 66 years, they have to move out.

Independent

Gride, The

This stop-motion animation shows a life of a robot who can't find his own place in the society.

Short

Mercy

A meeting after many years takes an unexpected turn.

Short

Basia from Podlachia

A tongue-in-cheek satire on small-town life in Poland.

Independent

Vanishing

A mother unsuccessfully tires to make up with her son. He does not come home for the night. No one knows where he is.

Independent

Reception

In hopes of changing their lives, young people perform strange rituals in dimly lit corridors of one stately institution.

Comedy

Being Like Deyna

A funny and moving story of Kazio, born in the People's Republic of Poland, growing up in the turbulent years of transformation who enters the new millennium with his own family.

Comedy

Man, Chicks Are Just Different

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Documentary

Russia’s Toughest Prisons

A National Geographic Channel film crew from Seattle is granted unique access inside the infamous Russian prison system.

Drama

Supermarket

A young man suspected of a serious crime ends up in a psychiatric ward. It is only then when we learn the entire truth.

Drama

Fear of Falling

Young TV reporter Tomek leads a peaceful life. When his father ends up at a psychiatric hospital, Tomek takes care of him. As he enters into the world of mental disease, he learns the truth about himself.

Drama

Courage

Two brothers witness a mugging on a suburban train. One stands up for the victim, while the other holds back.

Drama

Women’s Day

Halina works as a supermarket cashier. She is offered a promotion and becomes a manger. She soon learns that the promotion comes at a price.

Drama

80 Million

A movie about the power of thousands, the courage of hundreds and the friendship of a few, thanks to whom a change of fate of millions became possible.

Comedy

Letters to Santa

On this one, special day of the year, five women and five men will learn that there is no escape from love and Christmas.

Drama

Suicide Room

Dominik, a popular high school kid, has it all, until a kiss changes everything.

Drama

My Name Is Ki

A young single mother tries to find herself, learn to love and become responsible for herself and her son.

Drama

Rose

A story of the tragic fates suffered by the inhabitants of the Masurian lakes region in the years following the Second World War.

Drama

Elles

Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about university student prostitution.

Drama

In the Name of the Devil

A group of nuns led by a very principled Mother Superior tries to protect themselves from the sinful outside world. They soon find a new leader in the charismatic Father Franciszek, who shows them a new definition of God.

Documentary

Beats of Freedom

Rock music during the Communist era in Poland. A a film about the sound that gave people a dose of freedom in an otherwise constrained society.

Drama

Big Love

Emilia is 16 when she meets Maciek, 7 years her senior. He shows her a world of passion and protest against conservative values. Emilia leaves home to begin a new life with her lover.

Animation

Crulic. The Path to Beyond

One man trying to make himself heard, starts a hunger strike and is left dying while being under the watch of the society.

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