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Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

The film tells the story of the Prussian family von Krauss living in the Puck area, as well as the love between the Kashubian boy Mateusz and the German aristocrat Marita and is set between 1900 and 1945. The script depicts the complicated fate of three nations inhabiting the former Polish-German borderland in northern Kashubia, where the line of the border in Versailles after the First World War divided not only the land but also the people of Germans, Kashubs, and Poles, causing riots and often hatred. The script goes through four decades showing the complex attitudes and choices that people have to make here. Prussian anti-Polishism fought with Kashubian patriotism, which in 1939 ended in mass murder committed in thousands of Kaszubians in forests near Piasnica.

The life of the notorious Stalinist criminal, Julia Brystiger, who worked as a colonel in the Office of Public Security.

In 1943 Stanislawa Leszczynska was arrested by gestapo as a result of helping Lodz ghetto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanislawa worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labors not loosing any child - Her name - as one of four outstanding Polish women of the last century - was placed on Life and Changing the Nation Goblet sacrificed by Polish women in Jasna Gora Monastery. What was the secret of this extraordinary woman? Where did her strength came from? Why even facing death she has never lost faith in what she was doing?

Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.

In times of war, the most endangered species was the man. Under the Nazis' noses, about 300 people, mainly Jews, found shelter at the Warsaw Zoo during the Second World War.

Stanislaw Wokulski returns to Warsaw after a few months of absence with a huge amount of money. At the same time, Izabela Lecka and her father have financial problems. The tenement house they own must be sold. A man's drama unfolds against the backdrop of the social panorama of Warsaw. A merchant with ambitions fights for the hand of an impoverished aristocrat and, in order to get a chance to get closer to her, acquires fortune, becomes politically involved and buys into the noble community. Wokulski's hopes, desires, obsession and despair are the theme around which the multifaceted, most outstanding novel of Polish critical realism grows.

In 1994 Rwanda, a Polish woman ornithologist saves a Tutsi girl from certain death. After a few years they both revisit Africa on an emotional journey full of painful memories.

The cartoon-documentary film tells the war story of a certain family, taking an original, intimate point of view. The testimony of the Holocaust has a private dimension here, filtered through the perspective of three women. However, the pain of inherited trauma affects mothers, daughters and granddaughters to varying degrees.

The first biographical documentary about the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, a figure that poses many mysteries and paradoxes: how he managed to survive the Holocaust? He was communist or anticommunist? How could he keep abreast of science in Poland during the fifties? Why collaborated lifelong with Catholics if he was really an atheist?

In winter 2018, a team led by Krzysztof Wielicki, a Polish veteran Himalayas climber, challenges the K2. The camera follows the tension until the end and shows the struggles of those who are suffering from bad weather and injury. The director gives weight to this documentary by choosing a serious and direct cinema style to fully highlight the efforts of the team led by Wielicki and the ghastliness of winter in the Himalayas.

"The Nixie", is a dark folk tale, based on an old Polish legend, immortalized by Adam Mickiewicz in a poem of the same name. It tells the story of a water nymph who takes on a human form to seduce a young man she encounters in the forest. Mesmerized, he makes a vow of love towards her, and the woman transforms back into the nymph to test his love. The young man, who does not know the nymph and woman are the same, succumbs to her mystical beauty and breaks his vow. The nymph then takes her revenge by swallowing him into the lake, where he will eternally remain as his punishment. The film begins in a life-like world and slowly morphs into the fantastical as the line between the real and the mystical blur. A coming-of-age fairy-tale, "The Fairy of Switez Lake" is a modern, seductive, filmic poem with a catchy new wave soundtrack for this timeless cautionary tale.

During the Polish-Bolshevik War, a mysterious report arrives at the Polish camp for urgent delivery across enemy lines. It's up to the viewer, an American fighter pilot, and a team of Polish heroes to deliver the vital dispatch.

The world of the forest people, a tribe called Contehli, is interrupted by a railway administration clerk: Walser. He tries to penetrate their world and learn their incomprehensible language but all he brings is chaos and destruction.

Wieslaw Koneczny, a retired miner from Libiaz near Kraków, is writing a book entitled "From the Borderline of Miracle", which concerns people's contacts with the supernatural world. He documents folk legends, writes down personal stories of his neighbors, and also searches for ghosts. His inseparable secretary is his wife, Mrs. Gienia. A witty story about passion and mystery.

Boys growing up in a Polish housing estate in the 1990s go from being MTV fans to becoming the acclaimed hip hop group 'Molesta Ewenement'.

History of Maanam one of the best polish music group and charismatic lead singer Kora (Olga Jackowska).

The Georgian Trio Mandili and the Polish band Lao Che perform together at Europejski Stadion Kultury 2018 in Warsaw, Poland.

The scientists in the film highlight that people worldwide worked together on the digital breakthrough. In Poland, we lacked advanced equipment, but scientific thought was on par with the West. Meanwhile, a digital revolution was underway.

Hania and Pawel - a young married couple going through their first serious crisis.They run from their problems. Hania becomes enthralled by a video game in which she creates Lucjan - the perfect man. One day Lucjan comes to live and moves in with Hania and Pawel. A story about escaping into the most selfish of fantasies.

Michal Giercuszkiewicz, drummer from the legendary band called Dzem, leads a reclusive life on a raft in the mountains. His plan is to release a new record after a 30-year hiatus.