An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He’s stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a…

Blacha (Robert Wieckiewicz), an ex-middleman in the criminal underground, is the key witness in an enormous Pruszkow mafia bust. As such he is kept under lock and key hidden away…

Teen Mirek begins to develop a friendship with sexually precocious Violetta, a new neighbor, leading to tension with his friends at the same time that he has problems with his…

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland’s birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son’s succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his…

Młody człowiek mieszka na Suwalszczyźnie, ma się żenić z córką miejscowego bogacza. Jest jednak absolwentem konserwatorium, chciałby zostać kompozytorem. Zatrudnia się jako akompaniator popularnej piosenkarki ,która przybyła do miasteczka na…

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions.

Poland’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a…

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Set in the 60’s in a provincial town: four high school teenagers approach graduation, but all they think about are The Beatles.

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate…

The main character, nicknamed “Teddy Bear” by his friends and acquaintances, is a manager of a sports club in Poland. One day he is detained at the border just as…

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only…

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He…

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything, including throwing mud at his best friend, to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better…

Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage…

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers…

A movie quintessential to Wiszniewski’s artistic output. Its protagonist, Bernard Budgol, is a miner and a legendary leader of socialist labour in the 40s and 50s. Structured around a dissonance…

Open Form – Game on an Actress’s Face. A segment from a 1971 performance film by the Polish art collective KwieKulik, which uses the face of a famous actress as…

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

Three idealists – a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist – need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally…

Robert Wolanski came from Australia to Poland, to find a wife. He meet one girl from famous dance group “Mazowsze” and fall in love. But she says “I’m not loving…

A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange,…

Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and…

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger…

Jaśnie Pan Szofer is a 1935 Polish romantic comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński.

Directed by Stefan Themerson.