Marek Hłasko – a writer, rebel, party animal and Polish James Dean – arrives in Israel at the end of the 1950s. This land and its people become his inspiration – and a trap.

Since the age of thirteen, Gosia has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals. She has experienced severe psychotic episodes and long bouts of depression. She knows that she will never be completely free of her illness. The voices in her head will never go silent for good. But she doesn’t want sympathy. She is a fighter, loves life and stays light-hearted about her struggles. Gosia is living proof that...

‘I have achieved all I wanted in life’, says Andrzej Seweryn, an eminent Polish actor who then grabs us on a dynamic journey through successive professional challenges, which he still takes up with youthful fervour. This is not a biography listing his professional achievements, such as hundreds of outstanding film and theatre roles, political activity or a long-term directorship of the Polski Theatre. The actor remains at the peak of...

Runa, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl, escaped from Iraq to avoid the attacks of ISIS. Together with her family, she had been stuck on the Polish-Belorussian border before she eventually arrived in Poland. She had to grow up at an accelerated speed – after her mother’s death she became the head of her family. Now, she needs to take care of her four younger brothers and father, who cannot cope with...

Asia and Marek created a place in the Białowieża Primeval Forest where their children were supposed to grow up safely, but the big politics came knocking on their door.