Movies

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a...

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

Budny, a secret service officer, secretly surveils Bishop Karol Wojtyla for 20 years. An unreciprocated bond forms between Budny and the unaware...

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the...

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...

Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He...

The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter...

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various...

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands,...

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria,...

The action takes place somewhere among fields, meadows, and forests. The protagonists are simple but extraordinary people: Janka, a dwarf; Morka, a...

Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a...

A young, well-off engineer decides to leave his current life and seek what he deems a "manly" adventure.

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

The tragic life of five Warsaw poets who died during the World War II: Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Tadeusz Gajcy, Zdzisław Stroiński,...

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

Anna is a seemingly content thirty-year-old wife and mother whose orderly life is upended when a rejected young suitor’s suicide attempt lands...

Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.