Warsaw, the 1960s. Millions of Poles take their seats in front of their black and white screens. Suddenly, someone catches their eye. It is Kalina Jędrusik – the phenomenal actress and singer who brings some colour to the otherwise colourless reality. She teases with her charm and sex appeal. She galvanises men and appals women. The top sex bomb of the Polish People’s Republic and the Polish Merilyn Monroe. Kalina...

Marta is a romantic and a school loser. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and her grandma who tells her granddaughters stories from the uprising instead of fairy tales. In the adjacent room there live her parents, Tadek and Elżbieta. He is an educated person, constantly humiliated by the system, secretly envious of his opulent brother-in-law. She is the leader of her workplace “Solidarity” trade union, with a...

A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide on 12th May 1943 in London. What he did was supposed to be a sign of protest against the world’s passive attitude towards the tragedy of Holocaust. The story is told from the point of view of a young British journalist who, as most of the people living in the West back then, was unaware of...

Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of...

The 1940s. Together with his sons, Leon is working on the Vistula River as a sand miner. One day they help out a woman and her little daughter out of the water. They turn out to be Jewish and to have fled Warsaw where they could no longer hide. Leon begins his heroic fight for their survival. He gives them shelter in his house, while risking his whole family’s life.

Poland, 1983. In the country, despite it being suspended, there still is martial law earlier introduced by the communist regime in order to supress the Solidarity opposition. On 12th May, Grzegorz Przemyk, the son of Barbara Sadowska, an opposition poetess, is detained and severely beaten up by a police patrol. Przemyk dies after a two-day agony. The only witness of the fatal beating is one of Grzegorz’s colleagues, Jurek Popiel,...

August of 2007. Richard Boca (Beau Knapp), an obsessive Wall Street data analyst, lives isolated from the world in an ascetically furnished apartment overlooking Central Park. One day he notices worrying signs: his computer algorithms show anomalies, while the apartment becomes infested with mosquitoes – a plague that pushes him into a mental breakdown. On Wall Street, they call these analysts “quants” – their mathematical genius helps companies make huge...

A caring daughter, a laid-back mother, a popular teacher, a wife you are thick as thieves with – Joanna – is outstanding in each of these roles. But in none of them does she feel like herself. That is why she leads a double life. She has a secret she shares with no-one. Because if anyone knew, it would put an end to all the ‘wonderful’ things in her life....