Movies

Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon.

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with...

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various...

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to...

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he...

A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.

Director Krzysztof Zanussi's collaboration with Wojciech Kilar was a worldwide phenomenon. The artists' paths had already converged in the 1960s, and...

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's...

The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that...

A school etude referring to a painting motif about the farewell of lovers. He, the uhlan, must ride away on his horse into the blue distance, and...

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket.

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they...