Dziki, dziki wschód
A Western set during World War II. The film takes place in eastern Poland under German occupation.
MnieNie
Jakub Radej’s feature-length fiction debut, shot entirely in and around Legnica, tells a story of a broken heart, post-breakup depression, and the immense anger that can drive someone to harm the person they once loved. The protagonist of this tragicomedy, which tackles the themes of sexual violence and female revenge against men, is 30-year-old Ola…
Śmieszny człowiek
The protagonist of this comedy, shot entirely in and around Wrocław and directed by a co-creator of the popular comedy series 1670, is Tomek, a 30-year-old stand-up comedian. A few months earlier, he suffered a nervous breakdown on stage and unexpectedly struck himself on the head with a microphone in front of the audience. After…
Each of Us
It is a moving story of four women who, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp (recreated for the film in Gniechowice near Wrocław), struggle to survive and preserve their dignity. Gertrud, a German woman labeled “socially maladjusted,” loses her child and decides to care for the orphaned Leah. A Swiss medical student conceals her Jewish background…
1949
The latest project by Academy Award–winning director Paweł Pawlikowski is set at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s and centers on Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author. After years of exile, Mann returns to his homeland to deliver a speech marking the 200th anniversary of Goethe’s birth—first in Frankfurt, then in Weimar. He is…
The Girl with the Needle
Set at the beginning of the 20th century, this is a fact-based, disturbing story about a woman in search of love and a sense of morality. Karoline is a young factory worker in Copenhagen who finds herself in a difficult life situation. In her hour of need, she turns to a woman she meets by…
Chopin! Chopin!
“Chopin! Chopin!” begins when Chopin is 25 years old. Soon after, he hears a diagnosis from a doctor that is like a verdict – advanced tuberculosis. However, this will not be a sad film about a dying genius – in the following chapters we observe Chopin, who pushes the disease away, hides it from the…
Lachtara-Longing
“Lachtara-Longing” is a drama in the convention of a road movie telling about the problems of a modern family, broken by cultural differences and migration. A Greek father and his son from Poland (half-Grek), both at a turning point in their lives, meet after years in Athens to share a family apartment in Wałbrzych after…
Return to Legoland
It’s 1984. Six-year-old Tomek gets his first big pack of Lego bricks. A time of inflation, communism and the lack of anything in stores. His father buys him a LEGO castle in Pewex, for dollars an aunt from Chicago who came to see the old continent. Since then, little Tom is noticed in the yard…
My Wonderful Life
Joanna “Jo” Lisiecka (played by Agata Buzek) leads the title “wonderful” life. For many years she has been trying to be an exemplary mother, a beloved daughter, a good wife and a popular teacher at the Nysa high school. However, no one knows that Jo is leading a double life. When her secret is no…