The 49th Polish Film Festival

The 49th Polish Film Festival

Gdynia 23-28.09.2024

The Girl with the Needle

Karoline, a young factory worker, is trying to survive in Copenhagen right after WWI. When she falls pregnant, she loses her job and is left to her own devices. That’s when she meets Dagmar, a charismatic owner of an illegal adoption agency assisting mothers in finding new homes for their unwanted children. With no other option, Karoline starts working at Dagmar’s agency as a wet nurse. The two women start...
The Girl with the Needle

Two Sisters

Two estranged half-sisters, long at odds, embark on a journey to Ukraine to rescue their gravely injured father. They are confronted with a world of war, bombed-out homes, and charred tanks. Their journey takes them by car, then by train, and eventually on foot. Near Kharkiv, they unknowingly cross the front line and find themselves in a region occupied by Russian forces. Will they be able to find their father?...
Two Sisters

Under the Grey Sky

Belarus, 2020. Ongoing protests after the presidential election rigged by Lukashenko. An anti-regime journalist, Lena, is reporting from a peaceful demonstration being brutally pacified. A police drone targets her, but Lena continues her broadcast, and she gets detained. Her husband, Ilja, is doing everything to save his wife, whereas the authorities are determined to break them both. The film is inspired by the story of Belarussian journalists Igor Iljash and...
Under the Grey Sky

Under the Volcano

An in-depth depiction of the emotional state of a young Ukrainian intelligentsia Kovalenko family who is caught by surprise by the outbreak of war on the last day of their holiday on Tenerife. Their return to Kiev becomes impossible. In an instant, they turn from tourists to refugees.
Under the Volcano

Wet Monday

A fifteen-year-old Klara was raped by a masked young man on Wet Monday. One year later, just before the first anniversary of the event, a paralysing fear of water starts to take hold of her. In search of support and understanding, Klara turns to her new, slightly esoteric friend. The two teenage girls will face a deep trauma denial. The film is the director’s feature-length debut.
Wet Monday

White Courage

The late 1930s, the Polish Highlands. Jędrek Zawrat, a talented mountaineer and descendant of a prominent family of highlanders, likes living on the edge. The beautiful Bronka Skorus is the woman he wants to marry, but by the family’s decision she is given away to the elder of the Zawrat brothers, the staid and serious Maciek. Proud Jędrek leaves his native region behind to look for ways to forget it...
White Courage

Woman of…

Aniela Wesoły has been living a regular life: growing up in a small town, work, love, marriage, family. But she could never be herself entirely, as she was born in a male body. What will her choices be? Will she be able to sacrifice everything so she could live a normal life without fear? The story of her journey to gender reassignment is both an inspiring and difficult tale of...
Woman of…

Wrooklyn Zoo

With an alluring atmosphere, sparkling with emotions and pulsating with music, this is a story of tempestuous love between two young people. A story about their growing up and about their passionate feeling against all odds. In a city whose streets are ruled by members of a brutal gang, two separate worlds come together. The world of Kosa, a skater about to graduate from high school whose whole family are...
Wrooklyn Zoo