They used to call him Ptaszek

The image 'They called him Ptaszek' has the form of work in progress: it announces the film portrait of Krzysztof Ptak (a film operator, graduate and lecturer of the Łódź Film School, one of the pioneers of the electronic revolution in the Polish cinema) that is just being created. In August 2016, the environment of the filmmakers was shaken with his sudden death. “He was a genius filmmakers but I love him the most for the kind of person he was,” Piotr Sobociński Jr. said...

Three for the Taking

The 16-year-old Inga spends time either at football trainings or with her boyfriend who is her faithful fan. Her carefree life is interrupted by information about a fatal illness of her mother...

Through & Through

A psychological reconstruction of an authentic crime from 1930s. A married couple of unemployed intelligentsia members, Maria and Jan Malisz (Anna Nieborowska in her only film role and Franciszek Trzeciak), are becoming more and more impoverished, hopeless and powerless. With no chances for any kind of work or prospects, dejected by their family, they are driven to make a tragic decision to murder three defenceless elderly people.

Time to Go

Marta works at her father’s automobile repair shop. After her boyfriend is arrested, Marta is faced with a difficult choice: to stay loyal to her father, or to do what it takes to get her boyfriend released. Marta’s situation is complicated by a secret that she needs to reveal to both of the men in her life. Marta is in a hopeless situation.

To Kill This Love

Andrzej and Magda failed to pass their university entrance exams. Not to waste a year they start work – she as a hospital attendant, he as a mechanic. They are tired with the mundane and dream about independence and their own place. Soon it will turn out that the end justifies the means and they agree more and more compromises and commit baser and baser acts, gradually resembling conformist adults.

TodMachine

he construction of a Machine which will help the City defeat the enemy and decide on the war, ongoing for a few years, is coming to an end. The engineers are frantically making the last tests. The work is taking all of them and destroying their personal lives. Blinded with the idea of becoming equal to Godly work, they do not see the danger. A mysterious Monk warns them against the rebellion of the Machine...

Total Harmony

Adam is a contrabass player in a symphonic orchestra. His wife Ewa, a solo player, plays the first fiddle. During a concert, Adam has a heart attack. In hospital, he tells his wife about how he faced the final judgement – in front of a commission composed of Chopin, Gershwin and Beethoven...

Tower. A Bright Day

Mula lives with her husband, a sick mother and her daughter Nina in a country house. Just before the first communion of Nina, her brother with his family and Kaja, her younger sister who suddenly disappeared six years ago, visit them. Kaja is the biological mother of Nina. Mula is afraid that the unstable Kaja wants to take the child from her...