Amateurs

The story begins when Krzysiek’s theatre group of intellectually disabled actors, Personal Belongings Office, wins a festival and a chance to stage a play produced by a professional theatre. Great joy, a great opportunity and great expectations. Krzysiek and his actors have been recently working on a new project, Zorba the Greek. Performing it on a real stage would be incredible. But the offer made by the theatre director comes...
Amateurs

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. The Statesman

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski is a widely forgotten politician and economic activist who greatly contributed to Poland’s growth. Where did he come from? What is the secret to this phenomenon of a man whose initiatives form the basis of the Polish economy to this day? Why was he so ruthlessly banished from public life? The time between 1945, when Kwiatkowski’s strong motivation to work for his homeland made him listen to nobody...
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski. The Statesman

Going for Gold

The history of a legendary Polish pole-vaulter, Władysław Kozakiewicz. At the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, he competed in a passionate showdown with the Soviet Union representatives in front of millions of viewers. In the final, he won the gold medal and broke the world record. Upset by the Soviet public, he also made an unsportsmanlike, derogatory gesture interpreted as a political provocation. That moment changed the athlete’s life in the...
Going for Gold

Touching the Icon

An ethnographer originating from Kashubia comes back to her home region to explore folk religion. She knows her well from home, but in adult life, she has cut herself off from her. Then, she meets young Kashubians motivated to save the tradition of bowing and dancing with holy paintings. They’re preparing to hold a feretron weighing over 100kg on their shoulders for the pilgrimage. Physical weakness and the necessity to...
Touching the Icon