In symbolic images, the film parable presents a painful diagnosis of the Polish identity of the 1970s. Questions from The Catechism of the Polish Child resonate shockingly in the situations created by Wiszniewski, and the children who answer them leave the last and most important one unanswered.

Filip Mosz is a supply clerk at an industrial plant in a small town near Kraków. Purchasing an amateur film camera becomes a turning point in his life. As a man utterly devoted to his family, Filip wants to immortalise the birth and growth of his daughter. News of his purchase spreads at work. Filip gets an opportunity to make a film celebrating the company’s twenty-fifth anniversary. The plant director...

Lao-Vietnamese borderland, November 1954: a helicopter shot at by guerrillas lands on the jungle edge. Searching for water, pilot Bernard Traven enters a Buddhist temple and steals a precious casket. A monk casts a curse. Thirty years later, Jan Tarnas, an expert on old Thai manuscripts, is giving a lecture at Sorbonne. Traven pays him an unexpected visit and asks to decipher a manuscript from the Thai casket. While Tarnas...

A girl and a boy in their twenties emigrate from Poland to Germany. They take up low-paid jobs. In time, she gets into university, and he loses his job at a warehouse and falls into bad company. The girl improves her German and makes new friends, which makes the boy jealous, confused and frustrated. He drinks more, doesn’t come home for the night and becomes aggressive towards his partner. The...

At the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, during the screening of The Dawn, the actors on the screen come to life and start talking to the audience. The authorities are helpless in this situation. The censor, a former literary critic, arrives. The line between fiction and reality blurs. The man talks to Małgorzata, who reminds him of his former values and makes him realize that the role of the censor enslaves him. Decision...

The film is an insightful study of human personality during adolescence. A teenage boy attempts to define himself and answer the most important questions troubling him. The inner monologue of a young man mixes with an originalcollage of various phenomena and life situations.

This experimental essay tells the story of a matriarchal family as seen through the eyes of a child. Made entirely from the Educational Film Studio archival footage.

The protagonists of this comedy-drama are members of a three-generation intelligentsia family. Lena, a school headmistress, is organising a party to celebrate her father’s seventieth birthday. Only the closest members of the family are supposed to be present, but to everyone’s surprise, the father invites someone he wants to introduce to the household. A suddenly revealed secret he kept for sixteen years will radically change the course of the festive...