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…

LARP

Sergiusz 17 years old. He is very shy and introverted. His father and older brother treat him like a nerd, and that’s how his peers at school also treat him. The only thing he is good at is LARP (live action role-playing) games. This allows him to escape into a fantasy world of princesses, elves…

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…