As part of a masterclass led by film critic Łukasz Maciejewski, Ewa Braun will share insights from her artistic career and teaching practice. Using selected examples from her creative work, the production designer will demonstrate the importance of costumes and set design in telling a story and depicting the world of characters in a visual medium. The presentation will draw on a wide range of experiences and artistic achievements, including...

A mother and her children prepare to return home from a seaside holiday. For the family, it’s a moment of farewell not only to the summer days but also to the life they have known. For little Mati, these are the final days of his carefree childhood.

On the edge of the country, the woodland, and the law, Jola must choose between fear, a confrontation with her son, and her conscience. The film is the director’s debut.

Local show-off Baltazar desperately fights for his father’s attention, competing with his beloved brother, Teofil. One day, he decides to participate in a televised talent show — his father’s favourite programme. What he doesn’t know is that Teofil has also applied. Baltazar must face rejection and disappointment.

Franz Kafka, a young man trapped in a nightmare of bureaucratic everyday life which resembles today’s reality of employees of huge corporations. Vegetarian by choice, before it was a thing. Son of a tyrannical father entangled in fragile relationships with women. Deep in an existential crisis long before loneliness became a side effect of social media. Misunderstood and full of fears, he would escape into a world of irony, the...

A two-year observation of fifteen-year-old Jędrek, who is locked up in a detention centre. Cut off from his family and loved ones, the boy tries to find his place in a new, brutal environment. At first, he’s weak and lonely, but eventually he meets a friend – Wojtek. Together, they mature in the facility, which slowly becomes their home.

Kira, a thirty-year-old Ukrainian, flees to Poland at the start of the full-scale invasion, after losing her husband. Her thoughts remain with her war-torn home, but a new challenge awaits her: Kira finds out that she’s pregnant. Already traumatised, she doesn’t want to bring a new life into this world but she can’t terminate the pregnancy in Poland. Kira decides to return to war-ravaged Ukraine to have an abortion.

In a grimy musclehead gym, no one suspects that, at night, one of the trainers transforms into the fierce drag queen Antaria. The sudden appearance of an intruder disrupts the semblance of balance between the two worlds.