Agnieszka Holland

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that,...

Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about...

Martin Štrba’s inventive documentary tells the remarkable story of a group of Slovak photographers whose groundbreaking work challenged...

French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their...

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality...

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he...

Agnieszha Holland takes Jacek Petrycki on a journey to the places of her youth; she tells him stories of experiences of the past. It is a dialogue of...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

From his juvenile, tormented, heroic roles, which made him a global phenomenon, to his darker mature roles, a portrait of American actor Leonardo...

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's...

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 'war...

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 'war...

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of...

The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt...

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's...

The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic...

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing...

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing...

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.

Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must...

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not...

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who...

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The...

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his...

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East...

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a...

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a...

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem...

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters...

In love with the pharmacist's wife, the intellectual Abdon decides to deal with her young lover.

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first...

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due...

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Warsaw, December 13th 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens...

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get...

Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unravel after having the authenticity of his work...

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is...

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is...

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The...

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not...

Califia, the Queen and spirit of California, gives the audience a quick and somewhat romanticized look at history of California, as well as trials...

Polish television stage adaptation of An-ski's cult play

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores...

Valentine, a student model in Geneva, struggles with a possessive boyfriend and a troubled family. When she runs over a dog, she discovers that its...

The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924,...

Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the...

Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.

Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East...

After spending some time in a hospital, Ewa returns to her Polish village to work on a wild rose plantation. Her family situation gets increasingly...

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his...

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community,...

Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an...

Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German...

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film...

A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United...

A television short by director and actor Stanisław Latałło.

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

Nina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that together with her husband she has found...

Ki is a young woman who no longer wants to live with the father of her child. She moves into a house in which lives Miko, a serious man who does not...

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the...

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East...

In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake...

The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924,...

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first...

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality...

A young couple who are unable to have children make a deal with a poor woman to buy her illegitimate child rather than wait through the...

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about...

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has...

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's...

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna...

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna...

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show...

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.