West Berlin. After a long time, Mark returns home ridden with chaos, only to find his small son neglected and Anna confused and emotionally unstable. She tells Mark about her affair with eccentric Heinrich she’s not willing to end. Mark feels there’s more to her strange behaviour and hires a private detective soon to reveal Anna’s horrifying secret.

After a lousy evening with a younger lover, fifty-year-old Sabina takes a taxi. A minute later, a blue-haired girl, Anka, runs into the street and asks Sabina for help. What ensues will change Sabina’s perspective on the life she lives.

Poland, 1986. The priceless and worshiped silver sculpture of St Adalbert gets stolen from a famous cathedral. After a political murder of a well-known priest Jerzy Popieluszko the relationship between the State and the Church is extremely strained. Looking for a scapegoat, the chief of militia delegates the case to the not very experienced yet ambitious Andrzej Baran. Although the first 'success' and breakthrough come surprisingly fast, Andrzej starts his...

Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a...

A found-footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s novel, Solaris. The film comprises fragments of seventy films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Łódź in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of Solaris. It’s a personal account of loss, grief and memory.

A psychological portrait of Budny, a Security Service officer who was keeping Karol Wojtyła under surveillance for twenty years. A particular bond starts to form between Budny and the bishop, unaware of his existence (they never met face to face): a one-sided, obsessive and pathological bond.

Lodz Film School will celebrate its 75th anniversary at the 48th PFF! On this occasion there’ll be screenings of student films by graduates, whose films are nominated to this year’s Main Competition and Short Film Competition. The following titles made it on the list: Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces by Jan Holoubek, Möbius Strip by Łukasz Karwowski, A Man Thing by Sławomir Fabicki, The Egg by Dorota...

The “50 Years Later” section is an introduction to the celebration of the 50th edition of Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, which will happen in just 2 years. After fifty years from the premiere we’ll watch Andrzej Kondratiuk’s The Ascended with the unforgettable duet of Himilsbach and Maklakiewicz.   The Ascended The tides turn for two mature men without much success in life when they hit the jackpot in a...