50th Polish Film Festival

50th Polish Film Festival

Gdynia 22-27 September 2025

Different Fairy Tale

A sister asks her older brother to tell her a bedtime story. The siblings begin reading a fairy tale about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Bored with this classic tale, they decide to give it a twist. The story of Snow White and the Seven Princesses promises to be more entertaining…
Different Fairy Tale

dying of the young deer

Helka leaves her family home and walks through the village. The film is inspired by the life of the director’s mother.
dying of the young deer

Echo

Two teenagers, Ania and Bartek, want to overcome their greatest enemy – stuttering. This inner monster makes them feel alienated and prevents them from functioning normally in the world. During stuttering therapy, they face the feelings of guilt and inferiority that the monster evokes in them. They try to get to know it and tame it, to like themselves, and to stop being afraid.
Echo

Farewell to the Sea

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.
Farewell to the Sea

Fear

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.
Fear

Fish and Chips

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.
Fish and Chips

Franz

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...
Franz

Freshman

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.
Freshman
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