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- The year 1975. After a few years of forced immigration, the young director Andrzej Zulawski returns to Poland. His situation in Poland is uncertain. What's worse, his family disintegrates: his wife Malgorzata Braunek files for divorce. To strengthen his position Zulawski takes on a titanic task: he plans to make On the Silver Globe, a science fiction epic and the biggest film in the history of the Polish cinema. If he succeeds, he'll win his place in the pantheon of the Polish directors. If he fails, his career in Poland will be over.
- The film follows Maria, an actress in Poland, on the day she chooses to do a medical abortion alone at home. She has also decided to keep her plans secret, which proves to be impossible as the day unravels.
- In modern Berlin, the picture-perfect life of a Polish-German family unravels when the husband's pursuit of freedom strains their marriage.
- Set in a dystopian reality we follow Abe, a lonesome perpetual coward who decides to end his life with the help of a suicide service: a mysterious, self-driving death cab. During this gritty ride Abe passes several characters - all representing the absence of hope through a different looking glass - reminding him of his own wrong turns in life as he drives towards his final destination.
- Despite an anti-Semitic campaign in the late 60s, director Jerzy Hoffman completed Colonel Wolodyjowski, paving the way for The Deluge, Poland's most expensive film. The film explores its making and Hoffman extraordinary journey.
- The Soviet Union commanded the killing of 22 000 Polish prisoners in 1940. 4500 of them were killed in the Katyn forest, in Russia. This sheds light on the paranoid and cruel Soviet top ranks that made it happen.
- The Pain of Losing an Unborn Child destroyed balance in marriage and leads to tragedy.
- A 92-year-old Zdzislaw and his 25-year-old granddaughter set out on a 5000 km journey to a remote village in Kazakhstan. For him, this marks a return to where he was exiled as a teenager by the Soviets during WWII. After 70 years, he once again travels to the land of his childhood, in search of his first love, that he was forced to leave behind. The granddaughter is looking to support him through his arduous journey while discovering the reality behind the bedtime stories she heard as a child. Delving into his past, they grow closer. They both get the chance to say goodbye. Grandpa to the journey of his life, granddaughter to her beloved grandpa.
- A young boy comes to a station. He is shown around it, a bit "detached" from reality by the owner. The house is run-down and it seems weirder with every tenant you meet. The boy wants to get out, but it turns out to be very difficult.
- A documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of occupiers. Five countries from within the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- A young Ukrainian female director arrives at the Polish National Theatre, where she is to begin rehearsals for a feminist performance based on the well-known comedy by William Shakespeare, and encounters the chauvinistic and, at times, nationalistic reality of Polish culture.
- Katia is late for her own Party. With a superficial smile on his lips, she prepares to enter the party like a movie star who is right about to walk on the red carpet and has to shine like a star. Katia is a real hipster girl. She represents the attitude of the younger generation: she lives together with her girlfriend, whom she does not really like, and she is dating a guy because he is the most popular and best looking. The party is nothing special, everything seems familiar and dull until Kuba, Katia's ex-boyfriend shows up. Katia is looking for new experiences and emotional stability in shallow, inauthentic relationships with peers and at parties. She engages in relationships with people who play with her as if she were a Barbie doll. The film primarily is a portrait of the 89-generation. In a country where past generations always had to fight for their freedom, the generation born into the nation's recovery never experienced non-freedom and thus does not know how to value the freedom, which was so long fought for. Eight of nine people are unable to cope with too many options and cannot make choices because there are too many routes to choose. They do not know how to deal with responsibility. They do not know where to go, so they go round in circles and their own ideas about what life is. Lost within the circle, they escape from treating each other and life seriously.
- Summer 1982. Two cousins play ball in the streets of Warsaw. Poland has been under siege for six months and the football world cup is almost over.
- 1968. The sunny seaside, girls in bikini, the pop-music festival, the self-immolation protest, and tanks on the streets of occupied Prague. Based on the communist secret services archives and informant reports, this found-footage documentary on the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet allies tells the story of a woman getting married to a man who went to war instead of their honeymoon. It is a patchwork reconstruction of the absurdity of the totalitarian country whose citizens at once invade their neighbour, print leaflets to sabotage the invasion, and dance the twist all night long.
- When Adam discovers letters his parents exchanged years ago, he takes the opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew, uncovering an extraordinary family secret.
- About the most famous of the Soviet psychics Anatoly Kashpirovsky who achieved immediate national fame during a televised broadcast of a healing session in 1989.