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- A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
- Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the wardrobe wherever they go. They just want to meet people and experience their new surroundings, but are largely shunned or ignored. In some instances, they are shunned even when their presence helps the situation. And in other instances of being shunned, they are beaten. And when they are ignored, the world just keeps going without them, often at the detriment of humankind. Ultimately, the two men, with their wardrobe, make a decision about what to do in light of their experiences.
- In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?
- Waking up on a cold bus, a group of students start their internships in a remote hotel. Are they prepared for what lies ahead?
- A brutal and naked portrait of a group of youngsters in a small Swedish village, where bullying leads to fatal consequences. 16-year-old Linus and his best friend are systematically harassing a boy in their school.
- A modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an unspecified place (in a town at the foot of a cliff, between a garbage dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. Diana, after years of absence, returns to town with milk flowing from her breasts. He has depression and memory lapses. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect - Maj - befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the victim's daughter. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the broken world. When a ponytail entangles them while playing in the river, May knows it's a bad sign.
- Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.
- Imagine that you are in a forest which is dark, quiet and empty. You do not know why you are here. Suddenly you hear a howl. You feel you do not want to be here. You are afraid. You see a wolf, and a second one, and a third. They come closer and closer to you and surround you. What are you going to do?
- The characters in the movie are a part of a strong and important community - the community of lonely people. When they allow nature to act, their own nature begins to change.
- A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment. The sound of footsteps on the floor above her brings a reverie of her youth, when she was a beauty, the day a platoon of soldiers marched into her valley. As the day in the basement proceeds, she completes a set of memories that takes her from passion to maternal love to rejection and tragedy. Could there be more awaiting her on this day of remembering the fruit of her womb?
- Students of the Faculty of Acting learn that their diploma film will be made by the famous director Gajda. This news electrifies them - everyone wants to be in the cast. Gajda appears occasionally. He leaves a camera with the students - in his absence, they are to record improvised scenes around the topic of jealousy and rivalry based on the story of Cain and Abel and Balladyna and Alina. Rehearsals begin, we get to know the students' personalities, their dreams and ambitions. Disproportions in acting talents, differences in opinion and wealth, envy, pasts, and complicated emotional relationships are also revealed. We focus on the relationship of four characters: Lukasz/Abel, Olo/Cain, Julka/Balladyna and Alicja/Alina. Professional rivalry overlaps with private rivalry. The line between reality and fiction is slowly starting to blur. The four of them play a game for a role in the film, which turns into a game for everything. At the party, there is a fight between Lukasz and Olo. The fight gets out of control.
- The daughter comes to her father's apartment to feed the cat and water the flowers in his absence. However, the animal makes trouble, and the teenager discovers a secret hidden from her that will change her life. What role will a slightly nosy but kind neighbor play in all this? A simple and honest story about teenage rebellion, loneliness and the need for closeness, hidden behind a veil of lies and excuses.
- Mateusz is a weird man living a peaceful life in a remote country house by the lake. When a stranger is attracted to his beloved sister, his life starts falling apart.
- 'Get Away to Pitcairn' is the first feature length documentary film about Pitcairn Island. Director and DOP spent record amount of time on the island (26 days) what helped them to recognize conflicts on the island and complicated relations between Islanders. 'Get Away to Pitcairn' is not a movie focused on impressions from expedition, delight over the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty and it is also not a movie about controversy and painful topics. It is honest and interesting story about two young filmmakers from Poland making their dream come true and meeting one of the most intriguing communities on Earth living on true End of the World.
- It's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events pulls them off their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse. The discovery changes everything - the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope of any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.
- Luna, a young girl living in the post-industrial city of Lodz, Poland, spends her time fighting men for money, while trying to escape her past.
- THE HEAT - 1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.
- Karolina gets her first major role in the play "Carrie". During rehearsals, it turns out that her predecessor was fired for unknown reasons. The cast miss previous Carrie. Only the director is her ally. However, over time, he begins to manipulate her, taking advantage of her lack of self-confidence. Karolina is losing herself more and more in the role.
- Wiktor to an ordinary guy, an electrician who moves into a new apartment with his family. Perhaps the heroes find out that the apartment used to belong to Lech Walesa. Wiktor's wife, Sylwia, decides to turn their new home into a museum, and her husband into an impersonator of the role of the former president. Her obsession forces Wiktor to confront the legend of Lech Walesa.
- Film divided into three different episodes. In the first one, a saboteur damages the water pipes, which causes flooding of a cement stock. It turns out that the perpetrator is a member of the brigade of young concrete workers. The second story is about Jacek, who works in a brigade building a dam. He is recalcitrant and undisciplined. The collective tries to influence his behavior, but it has the opposite effect. Only an argument at a village party will change Jacek's attitude. Finally, a man returns to the countryside after completing his Polish Service stay. With the money he earned, he buys his godfather a horse.
- "Close your eyes and each look at your fears for yourself. They are all justifiable. Each fear is a person from another space. Every fear is a person who is missing something and wants to get somewhere." Five paths on which the characters meet their greatest fears and obsessions. The body, religion, politics, eco-activism, shamanism and disagreement with sanctity as we know it.
- In research on the religiosity of Poles conducted in the 1990s by OBOP, the percentage of believers has always fluctuated around 95%. At the same time, the unemployment rates also reached record values. The crisis strengthened the society's need for spirituality, which allowed things not necessarily possible to happen in other times .
- Amidst the hustle and bustle of Baluty, a young man disguises his true self, lost in the rush of odd jobs. Harsh words and rough streets are all that fill his days. But one person makes him see something more. Together they travel around the city on a scooter, sharing meals and moments. The day of farewell is inevitably approaching.
- A 17 years young man, a story about child prostitution and pedophilia. The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas. Senior - prostitute nicknamed "Luxury", and junior - beginner, a beggar child with a dog. A local taxi driver, the pimp i n the sex business, with teenagers, offers Luxury job pimp. Will the boy to exploit his younger friend, or help him escape the clutches of child prostitution ...?
- A "neo-giallo" short film about a need to fulfill hidden desires that bursts the characters world from the inside.
- "I'm here!" the main character would like to scream, but she is unable to even ask for a glass of water. She is also unable to get up because the disease chained her to bed and made her dependent on others. She hears everything that her relatives say about her condition. The everyday life of the elderly woman is documented by a fixed camera, directed straight at her face. The other characters: husband, daughter, grandchildren, doctor or priest are only a procession of legs appearing in the frame and sentences spoken in the background. A piercing story about loneliness in the face of death presented from the perspective of a dying woman - although she does not say a word.
- The plot of the film is based on two parallel stories about two women (Anna and Em) that seem to be unbound in any way. But as the story goes, it occures that even though the two women do not meet, they are strongly connected not only in real life but in the spiritual realm. They are both lonely, they live their inner lives and eventually their paths cross but in a very unusual way. It changes the young woman, Em and brings her to a new attitude towards life.
- Jiutamai, a contradictory Japanese dance, empowers women with strict rules. Two performers share contrasting perspectives, culminating in a finale defying the usual closure of the woman's mouth.
- Robert, a young actor living a life of lost relationships. A day on a film set, his obsessive roommate Basia follows him to make him see her breakdown. Quietly he watches as they're taking her away.
- Set in a surreal backdrop, we see victims' and predators' roles reversed. It shows the world we live in from the perspective of those who are most vulnerable.
- Filip, 40, is a professional extra, playing dead bodies. On the set of the film, he meets Lucja, thanks to which he has a chance to come back to life.
- Ziggy is a teenager suffering from bulimia. One day, he learns from his father that he will be sent to the hospital. He decides to prevent this and finds allies in his cause in high school. However, in the meantime, he discovers that something dangerous lives inside him, something that will want to get out at all costs. Will she be able to hide it any longer? The movie is a coming-of-age horror.
- Inspired by German Expressionism, tale about making an attempt to break out of the social standards.
- As a result of a mysterious climatic anomaly, three young people are trapped in their apartment.
- Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life.
- A short-tempered running coach is granted temporary custody of his athletic younger brother from a juvenile correctional facility. The complicated relation between them will have an huge influence on their collaboration towards the common aim.
- Marek, an introverted computer scientist in his 30s, tries to find himself in the crazy world of his younger girlfriend Julka. As a result of a quarrel, the couple break up. Marek returns home alone, while crossing the street he is fatally hit by a car. This is how it goes to the underworld. Thanks to the help of a mysterious boy located there, he manages to find a way to return to earth .
- A group of young Lódz hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
- Two teenagers brutally kill their friend. Helped by a police psychologist they are reconstructing the chronological order of events. Gradually, they begin to realize the noxiousness of the murder and its consequences. However, they will not discover the scale of the crime until they meet the victim's parents.
- A young dealer gets into an internet affair with a client's girlfriend.
- Tom is an aspiring writer, working as a call enter employee. A sterile daily grind put him through a writer's block crisis. He's unable to react until the implosion of his feelings will make him detach from reality.
- Karolina Specht's animation portrays a man who was born without his own shape. One day, his family home became too small for him and work suddenly failed to ensure sufficient freedom for him. Pushed into subsequent forms shaped according to the expectations of others, he took time to grow to overcome them. The film is about the expansiveness inherent to the human nature, which, just like the brutal law of the jungle, guarantees success only to the strongest.
- Story of a conflict of a father's expectations with the power and sensitivity of his son.
- The world as we know it ends before our eyes. In a secret military facility, somewhere by the Polish sea, where a strange experiment is being carried out - a group of scientists and military personnel turns recidivists into animals. The course of the experiment is supervised by Gaja - a scientist, veterinarian of the future. He carefully selects the condemned to meet the needs of nature, looks after the animals, and decides when they can be released into the wild to fulfill their role as spawners of the species. In this difficult, demanding - also morally - work, she is helped, as much as possible, by her children - Bebe, a young woman and growing up, Janek. Until the time when, in the newly arrived transport of convicts, among murderers and rapists, U. A young girl is also sent to the center, and she immediately attracts Janek's attention. She did not come here by accident, innocent people are not directed to help dying nature, but Janek is determined to help her get out of this place. However, this means opposition to his own family and to a matter that is many times greater than himself. It is a beautiful summer, however, and the feeling that connects the two - the inmate and the prison helper - could certainly have a future. If only it had not been the first summer of the end of the world - Whose life would we be ready to sacrifice if nature had charged us with this?
- A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.
- In the past, when mothers wanted to stop breastfeeding, they would rub their breasts with an infusion of wormwood, so that the bitter taste would make the child never want breast milk again.
- A young priest visits a psychiatric clinic where he is supposed to provide patients spiritual counseling. A meeting with a female patient changes his life completely.