A ferry to Hamburg leaves Świnoujście with a group of Poles on board. With passports and visas in pockets, they move to a better world. Many fear the unknown, others – though the decision has been made – still aren’t sure if they should stay or go.

Having lost his friend, almost 40-year-old Wiktor Ruben visits his aunt and uncle in the countryside where he spent his youth in a manor house with a group of girls. A lot has changed since then. Julia gave birth to twin girls. Emancipated Jola got married. Fela died prematurely. Zosia and Kazia are not the same any more either. Little Tunia grew up into a beautiful young lady. Ruben’s visit, his memories and attempts to bring back the past disturb the ladies of the house, expose their complicated life paths, tragedies and failures. An excellent adaptation of a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz.

One of the most important achievements in Polish documentary film. A record of a Warsaw tram drivers amateur brass band rehearsal. The Musicians is purely observatory and illustrates the innate human need to create.

Early Middle Ages. Joined by fate, knights Willibrord and Bezimienny (Unnamed) want to find and baptise a pagan settlement in the mountains. Although Christianisation is the only way to save its inhabitants from the coming extermination, the protagonists’ mission might be stopped by the pagan priest together with the village leader Geowold. Their doings prove a great test of faith for the two strangers. In this last bastion of ‘old creed’ Willibrord and Bezimienny may count on a surprising ally – Prahwe, Geowold’s charismatic daughter. Soon love will be confronted with hatred, dialogue – with violence, madness – with rules, and many people will have to die…

Two friends from school years bump into each other in a waiting room of a railway station in a small town. It’s been years since they last met. Each chose a different path in life. Władysław started a family, a wife and two kids, and though they’re living hand to mouth, he does his best to lead a decent and honest life. He’s always been calm and balanced, a school loser back in the days. Peers even called him Three-Quarters. Kazimierz Kaczyński is the absolute opposite of Władysław: he lives to impress, to be the centre of atten- tion and only acts all worldly and outgoing. The money in his pocket is not entirely legal. He never got his hands dirty with a decent job, rather prefers small frauds and card tricks that pay surprisingly well. Kazik is in need: he’s looking for a place to stay for a while. Władysław kindly takes him to his modest apartment.




ANTONI KRAUZE

A story about Władysław Szpilman, a prominent pianist and composer, who manages to flee the ghetto during World War II. Initially hidden by Polish friends, after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he’s on his own. In search of a safe place, Szpilman unknowingly enters the headquarters of the German army. Cruelty and pain intertwine with sounds of classical music that help him survive.

A tragic story of a love triangle. Provincial girl Pola uses her admirer Dimitri to run away home. She travels to a big city where she becomes a dancer and gets to know a rich man named Alexis, but Dimitri follows her trail. Beast is the oldest and the only extant film from the Polish period of Pola Negri’s career, the star of Sfinks.

Staniątki close to Krakow: there is a female cloister of Benedictine order, the oldest one in Poland, behind an ages-old wall. The nuns are cheerful old ladies, playful and slightly sarcastic with their word games. Related to the place for decades, they tell, with tenderness but with no unnecessary sentiments, the story of their lives in the monastery, of their experience of living as nun, as well as of evanescence...