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- This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".
- A wild ride through the nightlife of the postindustrial city of Lódz, well-known for its unemployment and lack of opportunities for young people, who often head to the nearby Warsaw. We can see it through their eyes.
- Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. For a brief time Mika becomes her father's companion in his befuddlement gently guiding him through the labyrinth of his fading mind. And as she does so, she sets off on a journey through her own life. Merging digital, 35 mm, VHS, infrared and archival footage, the sense of time and space start breaking up: the present blends with the long gone past and places reveal their far-off history and memories. In the meantime, the father's condition worsens. And thus life and its end also begin to blur.
- A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.
- Writer Jerzy lives with his wife and small son far away from the city. Financial and artistic problems set the spouses apart. The turning point in their relationship is their son's operation.
- In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
- Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.
- A murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.
- Dear Ones is an allegorical story about people who need to make real contact with their family and friends. Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his father calls him and asks Piotr to come to his family home immediately. Piotr arrives at the same time with his sister, Marta, whom he hardly remembers and does not recognize. The father called for Piotr and Marta because their Mother went missing. Family members who meet for the first time after many years begin to search together. The facts they discover about their mother make them re-define what kind of family they are.
- The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child.
- Floating offshore, a decaying corpse entangled in a fishing net is found by Agnieszka Lubczynska, a diabetic mother of 2 small children. Troubled detective Tomasz "Tomek" Nowinski is assigned to go to the coastal town of "Hel" to investigate. After the body is identified as Pyotr Miernus, his sister Ewa becomes a suspect but is soon found dead.
- Adam Kruk, an investigative police officer, is called to work on a smuggling case in the village where he grew up in the north of Poland.
- After having been drinking with Ewa, Josef Szarski flees the police but is apprehended and taken into custody. Unsure of guilt of Szarski, Tomek and his partner Monika now question the parentage of Pyotr and Ewa. Then the autopsy report sheds new light on the case.
- Kruk is summoned to work on a kidnapping case. An 11 year-old boy is missing. He has to put aside his private investigation on the molestation case. Thanks to his extraordinary perceptivity, he follows a lead to an old wooden house. There, somebody knocks him to the ground.
- While playing "Pirate" and then getting lost, Agnieszka's 2 children are found in a bunker by their frantic parents. The children's story of finding skeletal remains is reported by their mother to Tomek. The identity of the skeleton opens the case and leads to the conclusion.
- Following the arrest of the kidnapper, Kruk goes back to his case. We learn that Slawek committed suicide 30 years ago and is only a figment of Kruk's imagination, his biggest reproach, one that forced him to travel back to Bialystok.
- Despite capturing the kidnapper, the Police are unable to locate the boy's whereabouts. Kruk leaves his investigation behind and decides to help the Police.
- Thanks to the help of Kasia, a young policewoman, Kruk is on the verge of uncovering those responsible for hurting children in the orphanage, 30 years ago. Kruk, who is able to locate the kidnapped child, is brutally attacked by a stranger.
- Kruk saves the kidnapped boy, but loses an important witness, who was to lead him to the paedophiles. When all hope seems lost, the kidnapped child kills his grandfather. Kruk discovers that the kidnapping and the murder are intertwined.
- CEO of a wealthy local firm is killed by a gunmen during a fundraiser. Police officer Mankawski is sent to investigate and suspects dead man's colleagues could be involved in the murder.
- After a viewing available video from the fundraiser, Tomek and Monika examine the nearby house owned by Agnieszka and find an upstairs window with a clear view of the beach. They also learn that a lot of money is missing from the foundation and wonder what happened to it. Later another board member, Witold "Witek" Poplawski, is shot and killed.
- Tomek and Monika are unclear as to the meaning of a text message Witek received before he was shot. Upon further questioning, Mariusz Walicki offers surprising insight on who MABO is and what happened to the funds. In reviewing pictures taken at the fundraiser, Agnieszka notices a bag, which leads her to suspect the identity of the killer.
- Yoel and Ewa are long married. One day, Yoel learns to his surprise that he owns property and that one of the tenants knows Ewa well. As he tries to solve the mystery, his life changes forever.
- The sisters struggle with their own bodies. One, driven by ambition, seeks the limits of his possibilities, for the other, the body is a prison. One believes that ballet will save her from her memories. The other watches the world from the balcony with such attention that she sees and hears more. Their father runs away to the only place where he feels like he is truly alive. Each of them tames the past and tames the present. The film is an adaptation of the novel by Jakub Malecki.
- A film about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.
- TV Series
- Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.
- A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
- A dynamic and emotional story of fighting, passion and sacrifice. From 2016 to 2018, the filmmakers accompanied Joanna Jedrzejczyk, a multiple UFC champion, who at her time conquered the world of female MMA. To stay on top, the Polish fighter has to constantly confront her opponents and her own body, which is forced to make superhuman efforts over and over again. "Invincible" reveals the behind-the-scenes fights of modern gladiators, bluntly showing the blood, sweat, tears and overwhelming loneliness that are the price of the road to success in sports on a global scale.
- Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
- Young Waldek wants to earn some money abroad and asks his experienced neighbour, Mr Kuka, for advice. When he finally gets to Vienna, he can confront the reality with what he has been told about.
- When Polish teenager Mariola is duped by her new boyfriend and sold to a sex-trafficking ring in Germany, she is faced with a choice: die along with her grandmother, or adopt to her new identity as an experienced call-girl.
- A 12-year-old boy's bond with his mother changes when his mother starts going out every night while his father is away.
- A trio of lonely outsiders - a Russian knife-thrower, a prostitute and an accordeon player - establish a moving circus troupe.
- IGOR is a professional boxer whose world comes to a halt when he learns that his brain has been severely damaged from his many years of fighting. Refusing to undergo surgery, he knows that his days are numbered. Not having much left, his last desire is to leave a child behind as his legacy. A young Vietnamese immigrant, YEN HA, agrees to have his baby in return for Polish citizenship. Despite the nature of their agreement, they slowly fall in love, but then Igor's health deteriorates...
- Shahar, his girlfriend Or and their little son Dean don't have a house. They travel across Israel to make little money here and there, visit friends, meet people and learn new things. This might look like a banal story. While traveling with them, however, we happen upon a cross-section of unusual and colorful characters and begin to understand what triggered their decision to become vagabonds.
- The film is a surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his first job. Though none too convinced, he starts work as a delivery man. Having set out on his first delivery soon after he witnesses a traffic accident. He ends up giving a statement at the police station. And his plans begin to unravel. By a twist of fate Kuba has no idea about the significance of the part he will have to play on this particular day.
- In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
- The film begins with the protagonist's tragic accident that happens before he enters the television building and is coincidentally connected to the President of Poland's visit to the building. After this, the action takes place in the hospital room where the protagonist is being brought back to life. In the patient's hallucinations his 60-year life is being replayed--childhood, youth, and adulthood--and is intertwined with Poland's postwar history through various political systems until a surprising end.