Main Competition – Polish Film Festival

In a world where old age has become the greatest taboo, Sara and her partner Oskar planned to grow naturally old together. They made different decisions, though. Sara stayed faithful to the natural course of life, while Oscar underwent an antiaging treatment which guaranteed his youth and a place in the new society. Years later they unexpectedly meet – their looks set them apart, but not having answers to questions they have been shying away from for years is what they have in common. Can...

19-year-old Tommy enjoys his carefree life full of drugs and reckless violence. One night he is kidnapped by a stranger, Chris. As he wakes up in a cellar of a house somewhere on the outskirts, Tommy finds himself in the middle of a dysfunctional family dynamic. Chris and his mysterious wife, Kathryn, are trying to make him a ‘good boy’ by forcefully resocialising him in a specific way. While he has to read books and learn good manners, only one thing is on Tommy’s mind: how to escape this place....

It is the harsh winter of 1943 and a mysterious official from Berlin, Wolff, arrives in the sleepy town of Małe Zalesie in eastern Poland. He guards the reasons for his visit with utmost secrecy, but his mere presence quickly shatters the town’s peace. An atmosphere of distrust thickens, and danger lurks at every corner. Everyone has their secrets, and rumours of missing gold cause the line between truth and lies to gradually blur. A story of people entangled in dramatic choices, where the...

Mila is a very likeable girl. She’s thirty, she’s got a few hang-ups, a tendency to overanalyse everything and more tenderness towards others than herself. When her friend cancels a joint trip last minute, despite her doubts Mila goes to the pole dance camp on her own. From the very start she feels uncomfortable and out of place among the athletic dancers, skimpy clothes and platform heels. She observes the people around her with distance and irony – they all seem overconfident, too talented and...

During their holidays in the Masurian countryside teenage Nina and her younger non-binary sibling Miki are spending time with their father they have not seen in a long time who is trying to reconnect with them. Overshadowed by family tensions, things left unsaid and difficult attempts at closeness, questions of identity and one’s own place in the world emerge. Liquid States is an intimate story about growing up – a moment suspended between childhood and adulthood where everything is constantly...

W niedalekiej przyszłości światem rządzi wszechobecna sztuczna inteligencja zwana Głową, kontrolująca władzę, bezpieczeństwo, komunikację i rozrywkę. Każdego dnia mieszkańcy przyjmują specjalne żelki podtrzymujące ich połączenie z systemem. Dzięki nim mogą komunikować się telepatycznie i pozostawać w stałej synchronizacji z cyfrową rzeczywistością. Zerwanie połączenia grozi śmiercią. Poza granicami tego technologicznego porządku żyją jednak Neosoule – społeczność uchodźców odrzucających...