The year 1916, Captain Łazowski says goodbye to his wife and daughter, who deeply loves him, and goes to the front. After murderous battle with the superior strength of the Russian army, he is taken prisoner. He manages to escape from the Siberian settlement thanks to the help of Ksenia, a woman who falls in love with him. In dramatic circumstances he gets to know the duchess Turchanowa, who is...

Marta and Krzysiek are preparing for their trip to Nepal. They are to leave the next day but they still need to pack. Their preparations are interrupted by an unexpected visit by Maciej and Justyna. Marta is irritated by the presence of the man and his prying companion in their house, especially at such unsuitable time. Maciej wants to see Krzysiek’s projects but is it really the reason for his...

Drop everything and leave. Each of us has at least once in the lifetime been in such a moment. It is at such a life crossroads that we meet Józef K. Józef arrives at the waiting room of an old railway station, in the middle of nowhere. He waits for a train which is supposed to take him to a place where he will start a new, better life. However,...

Sahanda’s father is offered a job at the oilfield and his whole family has to move to the hot and dry southern Iran. Unexpectedly, the war breaks out. The house of the family is destroyed in a bomb attack and the boy’s mother is killed in an air raid. The father decides to take his son and his 12-year-old daughter back north, hoping that the beauty and serenity of that...

Harry Ricks, an American writer, intending to cover over the bad impression related to a scandal which made him lose his job, moves from the USA to Paris. He does that also in order to be closer to his daughter, who has moved there together with her mother. Totally depressed, he accepts the position of the Russian mafia’s night watchman. His only task is to press the button when the...

The story about how football brought hope to a little boy and his sister in the Republic of South Africa. It brought hope for respect, friendship, career, but primarily hope to overcome discrimination and to show that you can be a great sportsperson, even if you have HIV or AIDS. The film tells a story about hope, joy and strength that sport gives young people from South Africa, and also...

An elderly lady, the owner of erstwhile beautiful, but now somewhat dilapidated, wooden villa, after many years gets rid of the last resident that was lodged in her house by the communist authorities. Now she can fulfil her dreams – renovate the house restoring its former splendour. But her son does not want to help with the renovation, he wants to sell the villa in secret. Aniela decides to take...

Based on a story by Jan Józef Szczepański, “Wszarz” (Louse), the action takes place away from the main events of the war. It is November 1944. A group of guerillas with forged documents go out of the woods and go to "the den". While they take pictures for the forged documents in the backyard of one of the farms, they are being observed by a wandering supplicatory beggar. After returning...