Films

dir. Basil da Cunha

24′dok2023

After a violent police raid in a poor clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon, a 7-year-old girl seeks to find her missing older brother. At the same time, a young newly released ex-convict tries to start anew, free from a life of crime. The fate of these two will cross in the worst way.

dir. Ketevan Vashagashvili

77′dok2025

The protagonist decides to be a surrogate again in order to secure a better future for her growing daughter. In Georgia, this involves not only legal complications but also social stigma. In addition, Zhana has serious health problems. How long will she manage to hide her pregnancy?

dir. Esteban Azuela

18′anim2024

Joel roams the city on a motorbike like a character from the 1980s action film. All he wanted to do was to fix cars, but additionally, he cleans up the mess left by his bosses. The animation, pulsating with disco rhythms and set in a glitchy reality, shows a disintegrating man in a violent world.

dir. Krzysztof Rogulski

71′dok2024

Can disability set limits to happiness? Agata Roczniak – Poland’s first model in a wheelchair, an excellent swimmer, president of the Diversum Foundation, a wife and mother – proves that it cannot. An inspiring story about how living with an illness is more than just a fight against adversity.

dir. Sanaa El Alaoui

25′fab2025

Three ceremonies dedicated to the bond between mother and daughter. The first - intimate, in the bathroom at home. The second - loud, musical, ritualised. The third - silent, full of sadness. Do you know what the secret of life is? To experience the past, the present and the future as if they were the same moment.

dir. Maxim Derevianko

78′dok2025

When a world-renowned artist and activist embarks upon the project of staging a classic opera, there is no doubt that it will be a revolutionary interpretation. By addressing the refugee crisis or the war in Ukraine, Ai Weiwei once again proves to be an artist who believes that art can influence reality.

dir. Agnieszka Kalińska

18′dok2025

What are today’s young people like? Gen Z is growing up in the age of unlimited opportunities and access to the latest technologies. Yet, their emotional condition shows that growing up in the digital era makes life easier but not simpler.

dir. Laura Thomassaint

20′fab2024

Adored by the media and the public, French star Amélia Starlight (Emmanuelle Béart) is terminally ill. She withdrew from public life a long time ago, but one day a journalist running a popular talk show receives an electrifying message from her – Amélia wants to appear on television for the last time.

dir. Francisca Silva, María José Díaz

20′dok2024

An ancient prophecy foretells harmony returning when the condor and eagle fly together - the condor symbolizes indigenous peoples, the eagle the globalized world. This journey explores the life and worldview of Peru's Q'ero community, the last living Incas, redefining humanity's relationship with Mother Earth in an immersive, reality-breaking experience.

dir. Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

99′dok2024

‘I was born but I never lived,’ says an African American R&B singer, who went into exile from the US to Canada in the late 1950s because of transphobia and racism. Using phone calls made just before Jackie Shane’s death, the filmmakers tell the story of her life in hiding and her coming out.

dir. Mohammed Almughanni

26′fab2023

A few kilometres from Jerusalem, the Hizma checkpoint. There has been tension here for decades. Mohammed, a young Palestinian with a temporary Polish identity card, tries to get through the Israeli checkpoint. A succession of drivers refuse to give him a lift. Farouk, a taxi driver agrees.

dir. Alice Brygo

16′dok2022

A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.

dir. Małgorzata Goliszewska

82′dok

A candid and personal tale about the world of people who stutter. The film follows the story of an extraordinary therapist, Grażyna Malczyk, who believes she has discovered a new method of helping people to overcome stuttering.

dir. Natalia León

14′anim2025

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.

dir. Maja Górczak

13′dok2025

A film tribute to one of the first women to study directing at the Łódź Film School, Stefania Świeca. She left behind only one film – a poignant film study in which she tried to tackle the trauma of the Holocaust. What happened with her later on?

dir. Sylwia Szkiłądź

17′anim2025

In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Through her eyes, the reality of migration becomes an initiatory experience.

dir. Stefanie Brockhaus

89′dok2025

The eponymous character is a driving instructor in a country where, until recently, women were not allowed to drive. At the same time, she is a victim of another Saudi law – after the divorce, it was her husband who took custody of their children. Azza decides to fend for herself and embarks on a journey into the desert.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

75′anim2024

One day, François discovers that his parents are building their own sailboat in the garden! It is no ordinary boat but a replica of the one used by Joshua Slocum, a famous sailor. The work consumes all their attention and time, and François has to decide for himself whether he wants to share this passion with them.

dir. Omar Mismar

71′dok2024

The closer the war, the busier the business – these are the observations of the head of a Beirut beauty salon specialising in facial injections. The film, without any anaesthesia and operating mainly with close-ups, shows aesthetic medicine procedures which are performed in spite of exploding bombs.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

76′anim1999

In the treetops lives a tribe of monkeys which believe that demons lurk at the foot of the plants. When a rebellious teenager descends into the underground world, he finds that it is inhabited by another tribe of monkeys, reminiscent of medieval society. This is just the beginning of a crazy adventure....

dir. Benjamin Nicolas

29′dok2025

For 14-year-old Maïto, dance is more than a passion – it is a way of expressing emotions that he is not able to put into words. Raised in a home where the needs of his disabled sister were always at the forefront, he had to find his own way to draw attention to himself.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

8′anim1969

The unexpected appearance of a bomb in the middle of a town has left the place completely deserted – the inhabitants prefer to watch the events unfold from afar. Suddenly, the town is visited by an unsuspecting man. An animation about the origins of evil and the randomness of warfare set in a surreal space.

dir. Beata Bashkirova, Mihail Bashkirov

75′dok2024

Today’s Russia needs an exorcist. Aleksandr Gabyshev, who set out on foot from Yakutia to Moscow to free the country from Putin by means of shamanic rituals, believes to be the right person for the job. The film depicts the absurd reality of the country mired in hopelessness, lawlessness and superstition.

dir. Anna Konik

56′dok2025

In the era of mass production of disposable goods, this trip to present-day Karachi resembles a journey back in time. By taking a sneak peek at the work of traditional dyers, potters or embroiderers, we gain more than an ethnographic record – a cinematic meditation.

dir. Rongfei Guo

27′dok2025

A story of two women for whom directing is more than art. The documentary follows their journey from an idea for a film to its making, asking questions about the meaning of creation and showing the difficulties of combining artistic activity with everyday struggles faced by the women.

dir. Luka Mavretić

73′dok

Father and son journey through family myths and memories in pursuit of a rumoured connection to a Hollywood star. As they explore their bond and their future, uncovering the past could bring them closer - or drive them apart.

dir. Al Johnstone

25′dok2025

In the 1970s, following the wave of radical social changes, a group of American lesbians decided to create a world without men, settling far away from big metropolises. After 50 years, some of them return to see what has remained of the place that was to become their new Eden.

dir. Tomek Ducki

8′anim2025

Birds live happily and in a carefree manner on an island made of their own celebrations. When a mysterious object is washed ashore, the everyday life of the bird community begins to falter. The new, colourful world is fascinating, but it also leads to conflict. A perverse tale about harmony and the fine line between progress and chaos.

dir. Wojciech Węglarz

12′dok2024

The story of a bison, separated from its herd by the wall on the Polish-Belarusian border, which unintentionally becomes a witness to the dramatic events taking place on both sides. The drama of the animal symbolically resonates with the drama of the people separated from their loved ones.

dir. Simona Constantin

90′dok2025

After the breakup of the Roma group Taraf de Haïdouks, violin virtuoso Gheorghe ‘Caliu’ Anghel is trying to return to his glory days with a new lineup and under a different banner, although his personality is not helping him. What unfolds is a full-blooded portrayal of a brilliant artist and a difficult man.

dir. David Borenstein

81′dok

Together with the director, we set out into the world to explore the nature of our addiction to social media and incessant scrolling. We reach the edges of the map, where trolls, propagandists and the influence industry produce the world’s most addictive content.

dir. Rafał Łysak

26′dok2024

‘I’m looking for a person who wants a film to be made about them,’ – said the casting notice for a documentary. Director Rafał Łysak explores the motivation of people who want their stories to be filmed. What is the reason for their desire to appear in front of the camera?

dir. Weronika Mliczewska

93′dok2025

Sang was one of hundreds of thousands of children sired by American soldiers during the Vietnam War. Today, he would like to meet his biological father. The trip to the US means a lot to him, but when he meets his new family, nothing is as he expected.

dir. Huibert van Wijk

55′dok2024

In the 1970s, many Dutch families adopted children from Indonesia. Tim is one of them, but despite good intentions, something went wrong. Today, the protagonist resents his adoptive father for taking him to Europe. We witness a family psychodrama, which is recorded by Tim’s brother, the director of this film.

dir. Hesam Eslami

15′dok2025

In digitally supervised Tehran, the control system stops working as planned. Those who have been watched so far are taking over the gaze. Is it possible to regain power over one’s own life in the world full of cameras? A gripping documentary about rebellion in the age of surveillance.

dir. Salomé Da Souza

25′fab2023

Johannes and Gabin are young, cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in the South of France.

dir. Alicja Liss

8′anim2025

A mother and daughter live in a grey, frigid house. They hardly speak to each other. Everything is immersed in coldness and routine – including emotions, hidden in silence, and repetitive gestures. One day, a ray of sunshine comes through the window melting the ice and bringing warmth and hope for change.

dir. Jadwiga Kędzierzawska

16′dok1982

A peculiar story about childhood, play and a world full of magic, as seen through the eyes of a few-year-old girl excluded from her peer group. Jadwiga Kędzierzawska leads us through a sunburnt river, forest and city, creating a colourful journey into the world of a child’s imagination.

dir. Andrea Johnsen

77′dok2025

Reak is an Indonesian trance ritual. Its participants wish to connect with ancestral spirits and the energy of the Cosmos through music and ecstatic dance. The Javanese band Juarta Putra is currently preparing for its first overseas tour, which will begin at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.

dir. Suresh Eriyat

5′anim2024

As night falls over the marshes, a frog concert begins. Turtles, fish, snails and even a creeping snake pick up the rhythm of the music. Will the serpent, too, succumb to the magic of sound? A dynamic animation, full of anxiety as well as humour, which shows that one should not give up – even when things do not go as planned.

dir. Małgorzata Goździk

28′dok2025

An adult daughter tries to get closer to her emotionally unavailable father. Their relationship reflects a broader conflict between two generations – the older one, unable to speak honestly about their feelings, and the younger one, which needs open dialogue.

dir. Paddy Hayes

70′dok2025

In his music, one can hear real Ireland – both the country as it is today, with its local problems, and the one enshrined in tradition and landscape. The camera follows the Irish bard for 18 months, getting to the roots of his work and depicting his intimate portrait.

dir. Irena Kamieńska

16′dok1989

"Grey landscape and brick dust are the everyday life of two sisters working at Transbud. Irena Kamieńska’s film shows their monotonous labour, memories of youth and struggles with the communist reality. A poignant picture of life dominated by fatigue – day by day, brick by brick."

dir. Weronika Szyma

8′anim2024

A young girl writes a letter to Leo Sokolosky, a man who was in the Ansbach labour camp together with her great-grandfather. In the film, the past is mixed with the present and animated images are juxtaposed with photographs from the family archives creating a record of an intimate conversation, no longer with the addressee of the letter but with her great-grandfather.

dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński

97′fab2005

dir. Aleksandra Powalacz, Julia Powalacz

15′dok2025

What can you hear in the mountains? Does silence sound the same in the Tatras and in Antarctica? In this poetic tale, stimulating the senses, about journeys to the furthest corners of the globe and journeys into oneself, the guides include, among others, outstanding Polish mountaineers, such as Andrzej Bargiel, Kinga Baranowska and Anna Tybor, and traveller Marek Kaminski.

dir. Ross Killeen

77′dok2024

A hopeful and reflective story about closeness, passing, change and the role of art that extends beyond galleries. A popular street art artist, Asbestos, faces the slow passing of his mum, who has Alzheimer’s disease. Using his art, he takes to the streets of Dublin to talk about memory.

dir. Michał Pietrak

70′dok2025

For Bolesław Gasiński, life and art have been inextricably interwoven. He left behind not only paintings but also abundant audio and video materials. They constitute the main fabric of this documentary, making a visually sophisticated portrait of an outsider.

dir. Michał Pietrak

70′dok2025

For Bolesław Gasiński, life and art have been inextricably interwoven. He left behind not only paintings but also abundant audio and video materials. They constitute the main fabric of this documentary, making a visually sophisticated portrait of an outsider.

dir. Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews

88′dok2025

What do memory loss, William S. Burroughs, post-war CIA espionage operations and today’s struggles with a heartless healthcare system have in common? All of them come together in a creative and deeply personal essay. Following Louis, who suffers from epilepsy, we embark on a journey into the world full of paradoxes and emotions.

dir. Nurlan Hasanli

18′fab2024

The life of an 11-year-old hero revolves around football – the pitch, stickers with football players, T-shirts with the name of his idol. The routine is interrupted by the death of a neighbour when the family from abroad turn up at the funeral. Among them, there is a girl, from whom the boy cannot take his eyes off. Have his mates noticed it, too?

dir. Yael Nivron

19′fab2025

He hides his tears behind the sound of water, she wakes up at night with panic attacks. Nadav and Rotem are planning a wedding, but there are topics they do not discuss. How do you help a loved one when they do not want to talk about the problem? Sometimes, it is easier to spot an elephant in the desert than in your own room.

dir. Marion Burger, Ilan J Cohen

40′dok2023

'Emperor' is an interactive and narrative experience in virtual reality, which invites the user to travel inside the brain of a father who is suffering from aphasia. Alongside his daughter, we journey into the father’s mental space - imagined as a hand-drawn, monochrome landscape - as she seeks to learn more about his inner self, now obscured by illness.

dir. Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck

87′dok

Who has the right to dispose of the traces we leave in the digital world? Can we forbid the creation of our posthumous, partly self-aware avatars from these crumbs? Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block examine attempts at recreating the dead. Undertaken on the fringes of the mainstream today, they may become part of everyday life tomorrow.

dir. Remedios Málvarez Báez, Arturo Andújar

87′dok2024

The Andalusian province of Huelva is famous for nurturing its traditional music, sometimes despised and considered a plebeian version of flamenco. Nevertheless, fandango is a separate style, which is still alive among the locals.

dir. Diala Al Hindaoui

15′dok2023

Fatmé, an 11-year-old from Lebanon, lives with her family in a tent by a village road. Her appearance and prowess arouse curiosity and questions about who she really is. When her mother wonders if she is a girl or boy, Fatmé replies with a smile, ‘I want to be the strongest!’. 12+

dir. Robert Zawadzki

19′fab2025

Jola lives in Podlasie, close to the border with Belarus. Her son Marek works in the Border Guard combing the forests in search of immigrants illegally crossing the border. Jola is a taxi driver and wants to stay out of it, but one day, when her car breaks down, she is forced to confront her own convictions.

dir. João Pedro Prado, Anton Yaremchuk

75′dok2025

Are nuclear power plants more of a threat or rescue for us? The documentary presents the hot topic of nuclear power, setting it in different places and contexts, both global and local. The film breaks it down into voices – sometimes very serious but on other occasions eccentric and funny.

dir. Michal Cohen

68′dok2024

This place offers more than just a bra fitting. Customers who come to the Jaffa shop are young and old, Jewish and Arab, post-mastectomy and post-plastic surgery, cis and trans. For a moment, the bra fitter becomes their friend and confidante.

dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska

16′dok1985

Seven-year-old Tom, disappointed by the behaviour of Gucia, a girl his age, offers to turn her into a boy, Peter, with whom he will get along better. The story told by Dorota Kędzierzawska forty years ago shows that expectations and ideas about sexuality and one’s role in society emerge very early in our lives.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

76′anim1985

Gwen is trying to find her friend and understand the forces that govern the post-apocalyptic desert she is traversing. Fantastic characters and unexplored phenomena await her on the way. This is the director’s first and most mysterious feature-length film, dazzling with its surreal aesthetics.

dir. Jay Rosenblatt, Stephanie Rapp

30′dok2025

Jay Rosenblatt, a master of avant-garde cinema with two Oscar nominations, once again turns the camera on himself. The footage shot 25 years ago is a raw record of a couple’s dialogue as they experience the crisis of upcoming parenthood.

dir. Zuzanna Heller

5′anim2025

A man tries to report his wife missing. At the headquarters, he is greeted by a queue of angry people, forms to fill in and unfriendly staff. Set in the Kafkaesque atmosphere of absurdity, the story becomes a universal metaphor for powerlessness in the face of bureaucracy and the struggle against a heartless system.

dir. Janina Księska

7′anim2024

A psychedelic parade of bizarre creatures is proceeding rhythmically towards a red tower in the middle of nowhere. Inside, a hypnotic party is in full swing, its tempo controlled by a mysterious figure at the top of the tower. Dance, frenzy and colourful chaos engulf everyone except for a certain little blue man.

dir. Ciaran Cassidy

81′dok2024

A warm dinner on the table, a tidy house, children who have been looked after and a content husband. Behind this ideal, traditional image of the Irish household, there were sometimes exhausted and lonely women. The national competition for the ‘Housewife of the Year’, a television show that was broadcast between 1969 and 1995, offered them an opportunity to get out of the house.

dir. Lea Favre

11′anim2024

A young girl goes on a hunt - not for animals but for a perfect documentary shot. She learns how to be alert, invisible, ready to capture that one special moment, such as a romantic kiss, a unique gesture or a glint in the eye. Just when Lea thinks she has got her frame, she becomes a victim herself.

dir. Maciej Pieprzyca

119′fab2019

Inspired by true events, this is the story of a blind pianist who loses his sight as a child and ends up in the centre in Laski, where he discovers music as a way of telling stories about the world. Although he starts with classical music, jazz wins his heart. His life turns around when he meets Zuza, a charismatic singer who changes his destiny forever.

dir. Wissam Charaf

20′fab2023

Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet, as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters — mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?

dir. Krzysztof Kopczyński

28′dok2025

On Inga’s fifth birthday, 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Almost 6 million people left the country, including 2 million children. Together with her blind parents, five cats and a dog, Inga moved to Dedala Street in Warsaw. In the shadow of the conflict, experiencing the pain of losing her home, the girl becomes the family’s guide to their new reality.

dir. Krzysztof Kopczyński

28′dok2025

On Inga’s fifth birthday, 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Almost 6 million people left the country, including 2 million children. Together with her blind parents, five cats and a dog, Inga moved to Dedala Street in Warsaw. In the shadow of the conflict, experiencing the pain of losing her home, the girl becomes the family’s guide to their new reality.

dir. Sofiia Buhrii

15′dok2025

A distance of 769 kilometres is what separates a bakery in Kyiv from New York, an occupied town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is where bread baked by people with intellectual disabilities ends up. Although they struggle with their own difficulties, their work saves people in the east of the country.

dir. Maciej Tyburski

29′dok2025

It was intended as a film about Józef Lewartowski – a Jew, communist and an organiser of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Unexpectedly, it turns into a portrait of his great-grandson Joseph, a Parisian who, in an attempt to understand the history of the resistance movement in his family, begins to co-create it.

dir. Daria Kopiec

30′fab2025

Maria raises her introverted son alone. Kostek ignores her attempts at contact and their relationship seems frozen. Resorting to mystification and lies, Maria finds a way to reach him, but it will cost her dearly. 18+

dir. Gary Lennon

80′dok

Pulitzer Prize winner and photojournalist Cathal McNaughton decides to leave his dream profession at the peak of his career. Returning from war zones to live in a cottage in the Irish countryside is not easy for him. He finally has time to rebuild the relationship with his adolescent son and take care of his parents, but the memories of his past still haunt him.

dir. Michał Cysewski

16′dok2024

Magda’s passion is horse riding but due to high costs, she has to give up her lessons. She finds a new hobby – hobby horsing, an unusual sport that involves imitating horse riding. Behind this seemingly childish game lies serious competition and real emotions.

dir. Olga Kałagate

17′fab2025

Aga and Bartek are getting ready to have dinner with friends – an evening out, without the kids. However, carefree atmosphere is ruined by the confession of their friends, who announce their separation after 15 years of the relationship. Having heard this unexpected news, they start analysing their own relationship on the way home.

dir. Kazimierz Karabasz

33′dok1973

"The master of Polish documentary filmmaking paints a tender portrayal of adolescent Krystyna, showing her daily life filled with work and the clash between dreams and reality. ‘Krystyna M.’ is an intimate sketch about growing up, ambitions and limitations inscribed in social roles and professional hierarchies."

dir. Xawery Żuławski

139′fab2024

The story of Jerzy and Helena Kulej. He was a legendary boxer, two-time European champion and eight-time Polish champion, the only Polish boxer to win two Olympic gold medals. Although he was never defeated in the ring, he failed many times in his life. She was a strong woman who always stood by his side but did not want to remain in his shadow forever.

dir. Trond Kvig Andreassen

87′dok2025

When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, musicians from the Kyiv Orchestra had just set off on a tour of Italy. They became refugees overnight but did not stop performing. Each of the protagonists must now redefine his or her role as an artist and citizen.

dir. Sarah Henochsberg

27′fab2024

The holidays in the Alps were expected to be carefree, but there is palpable tension between the parents, while the younger sister is whining and saying things she should not. Ten-year-old Sacha knows that this is their last trip together, and she tries to take care of the atmosphere and the entire family.

dir. Kevin Macdonald, Ruhi Hamid

34′dok2023

A gripping story about talented, orphaned girls from Afghanistan, whose music school was closed down by the Taliban. Forced to flee the country, they find refuge in Portugal, where they try to rebuild their lives and reinvent themselves in music. 12+

dir. Arjun Talwar

97′dok2025

A street in downtown Warsaw. An Indian immigrant filmmaker seeks to overcome the boundaries between himself and an anxiety-ridden country. He uncovers hidden stories, and shared longing, revealing a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society.

dir. Max Kestner

97′dok2024

In 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo authorities decided that a giraffe named Marius should be euthanised. The decision provoked an avalanche of global public reaction. With reference to this story, Max Kestner questions popular beliefs about the essence of life, consciousness, and the alleged uniqueness of the human species.

dir. Landon van Soest

83′dok2024

The director accompanies blind pastor Ian Nichols as he undergoes the pioneering procedure of an implant insertion to stimulate the optic nerve. The darkness in which the protagonist was immersed for decades is brilliantly illuminated, but in a way that is surprising, painful and verifies his original expectations.

dir. Jakob Ladányi Jancsó

20′fab2025

A young woman is staying at a rehabilitation centre and delving deeper and deeper into the darkest parts of her past. Under the supervision of a therapist, she slowly uncovers layers of trauma. Trust and intimacy are an essential but very fragile part of this process.

dir. Artem Rachkelyuk

20′fab2025

When the war broke out in Ukraine, the parents sent Vlad and his sister to Poland to ensure their safety. They themselves remained in the conflict-torn country. Vlad is expected to look after his younger sister, but his thoughts constantly flee to his homeland and especially to his father, who has been called up to the army.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

75′anim2016

Holidays in a French seaside resort have their own charms. Louise, who misses the last train home, will have to stay there also after the season. An unexpected stay at the seaside becomes an opportunity to sink herself into dreams and memories. A sentimental, charming story about passing and loneliness.

dir. Fermin de la Serna

77′dok2025

For many years, Cristina and La Bonita have worked as cooks on merchant ships sailing the Peruvian Amazon. However, being transgender still poses a challenge to local customs and beliefs.

dir. Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn, Luce Grosjean

32′anim2024

He observes. She plays. Forgotten love lingers. The Moon is just a pale witness to it all. Still pale.

dir. Rebecca Blöcher

24′dok2024

Before she got married, the director’s mother had lived an unconventional life on the road. After returning to Germany and starting a family, she set off again. For 10 years she lived in her car, which meant she hardly ever saw her daughter. Freedom was everything to her, but it came at a high price.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

12′anim1976

In a colourful hilltop town, preparations for a carnival masquerade are underway. To escape the party, an elderly woman flees into the forest, but she does not know that the devil himself is awaiting her there. When he offers her a game of dominoes, the woman will put her soul on the line in exchange for regaining her youth.

dir. Mamoru Hosoda

98′anim2018

A warm animation about growing up and overcoming jealousy. Kun, who is just a few years old, has to accept his little sister Mirai, who suddenly appears in his world. This is a story about how to find a balance between one’s own needs and the feelings of loved ones and how to learn to share love. 6+

dir. Billy Shebar, David C Roberts

94′dok

She is an absolute artist whose vocal and performance work has never lent itself to easy classification. Meredith Monk’s music is said to come from another planet. The film is a collage of her extraordinary activities and personal reflections when confronted with the past and the inevitable passing of time.

dir. Gor Arushanyan

21′fab2025

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is collapsing. In a deserted mountain village, shots and explosions are audible, along with dark smoke, which can be seen. Almost all the inhabitants have already fled, except for Aram. He is trying to save his disabled mother, who refuses to leave. The Azerbaijani army is close and the time to make a decision is shrinking.

dir. Changsoo Kim

12′anim2024

Young-soo leaves his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, at a nursing home. On the way back, the man hits a strange pair of sheep with his car – a son and a mother, who look like people. As he tries to help the female sheep, he begins to understand what he has really lost. Will it be too late to make amends?

dir. Sam Jones

86′dok2023

The Irish director tells a story of siblings who have been adopted by an American family. Gabe decides to travel to Russia, where he hopes to find his biological mother. Meeting her turns out to be a painful experience. The story of the man and his disillusionment with his Russian family has also a dark, unexpected finale.

dir. Agata Kapuścińska

23′fab2025

Peter lives with his dad, who takes excellent care of him. Dad explains the world to Peter and warns him of the terrible dangers lurking outside the house! Peter is 35 years old. One day, he comes across an old, mysterious booklet with crossword puzzles that will open the door to his independence.

dir. Vivianne Perelmuter, Isabelle Ingold

87′dok2025

Al, a resident of California’s Yurok reserve, decides to embark on a long journey. Due to an environmental catastrophe, it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to engage in fishing and the demons of war are still swirling in his head. Will a reunion with his former brothers-in-arms enable him to regain his equilibrium?

dir. Jan Krawitz

17′dok2025

The 1950s in America were the time when schools were flooded with educational films aiming to shape exemplary female behaviour. This story, composed of excerpts from such films, is not only a look at the past ideals of femininity but also a bitter reflection on their contemporary echoes.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

11′anim1966

A group of wanderers traverse deserts, mountains and snows with the aim of finding Noah’s Lost Ark. Meanwhile, somewhere on a snowy hillside, a lone logger decides to turn his wooden hut into a biblical ark in fear of an impending flood. All he has to do is to find a pair from each species.

dir. Cara Holmes

71′dok2023

The film’s protagonist combines, with some difficulty, her artistic career with sheep farming she took up when she inherited the family farm. She is a committed breeder that proudly wears lipstick but juxtaposes it with the work overalls in which she takes her animals to graze in the field. She eludes the gender stereotypes that have been attributed to Irish women over the years.

dir. Jakub Prysak

29′fab2025

Wera is a young painter with a beautiful house immersed in greenery, overlooking a lake, a handsome husband who earns an excellent salary, a cuddly dog called Chagall and a brutal and incurable diagnosis. The couple must face the inevitability of her illness, but their reactions are extremely different.

dir. Tadeusz Chudy

67′dok2025

Paweł practices boxing, but the challenges he needs to face are of a completely different nature. Above all, he will have to start to live independently after leaving the children’s home. Regardless of what happens in Paweł’s life, what matters most is his relationship with the person closest to him.

dir. Tadeusz Chudy

67′dok2025

Paweł practices boxing, but the challenges he needs to face are of a completely different nature. Above all, he will have to start to live independently after leaving the children’s home. Regardless of what happens in Paweł’s life, what matters most is his relationship with the person closest to him.

dir. Gwenael François

28′fab2024

'Oto's Planet' follows the peaceful life of Oto, who loves nothing more than lounging in his hammock and enjoying the fruits of the single tree on his tiny planet. His tranquility is shattered when Exo, a hyperactive and cumbersome cosmonaut, crash-lands in a small spacecraft. The ensuing attempts at communication and cohabitation between these two unlikely roommates are fraught with difficulty.

dir. Ulu Braun

12′anim2024

"Pacific Vein" takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitalization of our world. Around him, hippies, artists, and homeless people search for meaning while surveillance cameras capture their messages. Media and fiction merge hypnotically with doc-footage. The empire is diligent and nervous, the American Dream glitched into a ghostly autosuggestion. Where is the enemy, who has the image rights?

dir. Bogdan Dziworski

8′dok1979

"In this praise of the act of creation based on glimpses and minutiae of existence, almost every frame becomes an image leading inside the protagonist. The state of impotence and powerlessness can be felt in the gaze, fills the thoughts, and turns the eyes towards objects. Bogdan Dziworski’s film is a remarkably sonorous, visual lullaby about the inability to create and the approaching breakthrough."

dir. Sergei Loznitsa

12′dok2025

More than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war is still going on in the streets, but at Kyiv’s Museum of Natural History children can forget about it for a while. Under Sergei Loznitsa’s watchful eye, they are transported to the world from millions of years ago – free from the reality of war.

dir. Kinga Kociarz

6′anim2024

Cottage cheese, which drips rhythmically, the Virgin Mary in the background, clucking hens in cages, chicken skinning – all this creates the unsettling atmosphere of a house where repetitive, cyclical activities play the lead role. The realistic photographs of the characters contrast with the dreamlike aura of the film, and the perverse ending seems to pose the question of whether it is possible to move out of this house.

dir. Damian Kosowski

20′fab2024

Ukraine, 2028. The war is over and difficult issues need to be sorted out. Olena, with her daughter Kira and new partner Timur, arrives to collect the results of the DNA test confirming the death of her husband who went missing. During the procedure, the woman is overwhelmed by doubts.

dir. Finn Walther, Martin Walther

83′dok2024

Should domestication of wild animals be allowed? Joakim has loved foxes since childhood and, many years later, he fulfilled his dream by setting up a breeding farm. However, he has to face the regulations in force in Norway.

dir. Žilvinas Naujokas, Vilius Petrauskas, Mantas Pronckus, Donatas Ulvydas

26′anim2024

Play Life invites you into the vibrant world of Algis Kriščiūnas’ paintings, where art transforms into living stories. Through a nostalgic conversation between a man and a woman, the film explores love, memory, and the passage of time. The journey offers viewers an immersive experience filled with emotion and beauty.

dir. Joanna Grudzinska

70′dok2025

The pogrom in Jedwabne in 1941 was a white spot in Polish history for a long time. It was not until Jan Tomasz Gross’s book ‘Neighbours’ that the debate on Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation was launched. The film shows how this subject divided Poles and was appropriated by historical politics.

dir. Sinead O'Shead

82′dok

Sinead O’Shea, an Irish film director and journalist, returns to her hometown, Navan, to expose the abuse that took place in Catholic institutions there. In her confrontational documentary, she talks to people who experienced bullying and cruelty from teachers and nuns in the 1960s and 1970s.

dir. Jessica Bishopp

20′dok2023

On a remote Icelandic island, teenagers Birta and Selma go on rescue missions instead of late-night parties. The girls help puffins trapped by the city lights. In this intimate tale, both the rescued birds and the film’s heroines embark on a journey towards adulthood together. 12+

dir. Nada Khalifa

21′fab2025

‘Where is better? Here or there?’, are asking the people Jason meets when after many years he goes back to Palestine as a Canadian citizen. He tries to get to his native village, but the last mile will turn out to be most difficult part of the journey. It will make the protagonist aware of the power of eponymous quaher.

dir. Anne Breymann

4′anim2025

Two mysterious creatures meet on a tree branch. They look like birds, but they could just as well be fragments of a tree that have gained the freedom of movement. Although cautious at first, they get closer with time, start touching each other shyly and open up, both literally and metaphorically.

dir. Marcin Strauchold

26′fab2025

Anka ends up at a historical re-enactment camp because of her boyfriend. She tries to find her own place in the community, however, it turns out that historical prejudice against women is surprisingly valid. The participants with dedication perform roles from the past, but at the same time, there is a contemporary social game going on between them.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

24′anim1978

A young couple embarks on a lone boat trip across the Atlantic. The first year of the voyage is idyllic, but soon mutual resentment and distrust emerge between the characters. A grotesque and macabre tale of love put to the test of time and the crises faced by people sharing a journey and life together.

dir. Rein Maychaelson

19′fab2025

Sammy’s mother can’t get over the fact that her son has spent his entire life sharing his body with those in need. A hand, leg or eye – with his extraordinary ability to detach body parts, he has helped people in impossible situations. When there is nothing left to give away, the mother decides to get her son back.

dir. Gar O'Rourke

90′dok

Welcome to Kujalnik, a famous spa resort near Odesa. Despite the holiday atmosphere and pleasant ambiance of the place, there is still a war going on nearby. A stay at the Black Sea sanatorium is a temporary return to normality and peace.

dir. Andreas Zerr

100′dok2025

There are more phenomena than are dreamt of by pop culture scholars, such as the musical ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and in particular, its big screen incarnation. On the 50th anniversary of its premiere, this documentary tells the bravura story of the making of the film and its fan base.

dir. Paweł Maślona

119′fab2023

Spring 1794. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to Poland to incite an uprising against Russia. He unites the nobility and peasants, becoming a symbol of the struggle for freedom and equality. The film is a dynamic tale about revolution, betrayal and hope for independence.

dir. Ülo Pikkov

16′dok2024

'Sewing Machine' is a film about the town of Pechory (Petseri) and its people, told through the life story of director’s great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine box.

dir. Otso Tiainen

98′dok2024

This was supposed to be a documentary about an esoteric community living today in the French Pyrenees. While it was being filmed, serious accusations were made against one of the sect’s members, Hollywood director Richard Stanley. Consequently, the documentary seems stretched between a utopian fantasy and a brutal clash with reality.

dir. Sjors Swierstra, Ivanna Khitsinska

16′dok2025

'Shelter' offers an intimate look at the war in Ukraine. The film invites the viewer to step into a virtual space with people from Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv, to witness moments of shared humanity and reflect on the cost of war.

dir. Natalia Koniarz

79′dok2025

Without this metal, there would be no modern technologies today. In the 21st century, there are still murderous working conditions in the Bolivian silver mines of Potosí, from which the profits are reaped by international corporations. The entire lives of people from this area revolve around mines, and the documentary is a raw observation of their daily routine.

dir. Olha Zhurba

95′dok

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.

dir. Rui Ting-JI

10′anim2025

A moving animation about a mother and daughter who travel in a removal van and try to make a fresh start after the divorce. However, the journey becomes more and more difficult: the rain becomes more intense, the windscreen wipers stop working, the windows steam up and the tension rises, not just on the road but also between the protagonists.

dir. Likarion Wainaina

74′fab2018

Jo is a special girl from Kenya, endowed with supernatural powers – she can move objects and stop time. Although she is ill and has to spare herself, she wants to help others. Her sister comes up with an idea to make a superhero film together with the entire village. 9+

dir. Meritxell Campos Olivé

75′dok2024

One hundred years divide Albert Einstein’s prediction of the existence of gravitational waves and the experimental confirmation of these wrinkles of space-time. Scientists from research teams, together with Meritxell Campos Olivé, a director and choreographer, use dance to communicate frustrations and delights as well as failures and successes related to research work.

dir. Nima Sarvestani

85′dok2025

One watches this film like a gripping thriller, and at times like a courtroom drama. An elaborate plot is unfolding before our eyes: a variety of efforts are made to capture and try a man who was co-responsible for the massacre of thousands of Iranian political prisoners in the 1980s.

dir. Nik Azad

27′fab2024

A man walks into an office where bored clerks are poring over piles of paperwork. Unfortunately, he may need to have to stay there longer, because his documents lack the necessary identification number. A short film that could have been made by Wes Anderson based on a screenplay by Franz Kafka.

dir. Matthias Lawetzky

90′dok2025

Members of some evangelical communities in Virginia perform a peculiar ritual involving venomous snakes. They believe that this is how they can defeat Satan. A film for people with strong nerves and guts.

dir. Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc

83′dok2024

In this film, the global problem of invisible slavery meets a family story of violence. When a Moldovan journalist learns that her father, who works in Italy, is being abused and beaten by his employer, she arrives on the scene and tries to record the abuse using a hidden camera.

dir. Paulina Ziółkowska

9′anim2025

‘Tears’ is a collage animation in which countless possibilities intersect like tangled city streets. Different people, destinations, ideals of beauty – the protagonist has so many paths to choose from and so many decisions to make every day. She feels lost in the world full of questions waiting for her to answer.

dir. Samaneh Shojaei

8′anim2025

Mino, reassured by her doctor’s recommendations, begins to understand that mental problems affect everyone, not just herself. During her birthday party, she observes the emotional struggles of her guests, such as trauma, anxiety and depression. A psychedelic journey that draws the viewer into unexplored states of the human psyche.

dir. Ian Cheney

105′dok

Ian Cheney is constructing an ark in a Maine meadow to carry his most precious memories across the ocean of time, but also to get himself to reflect on what is truly worth saving. Warning: the presence of legendary funnyman Werner Herzog aboard this vessel is a ruse.

dir. Tomasz Wolski

88′dok2025

He worked for the Soviet intelligence, faked his collaboration with the Gestapo and had to explain himself for it for the rest of his life. In Poland, in 1968, he was put under house arrest as a victim of the anti-Semitic campaign. Employing archival footage in a creative way, the film reveals the remarkable biography of Leopold Trepper.

dir. Jakub Krzyszpin

8′anim2025

A young boy tries to come to terms with his brother’s absence and enters the brutal reality of his neighbourhood. This is an animation about growing up in the world of violence, silence and unresolved past – a terrifying portrait of everyday life, full of aggression, unpaid debts and unsettled scores.

dir. Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

19′anim2024

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has 192 explosions.

dir. Håvard Bustnes

95′dok2025

Tycoons producing carcinogenic asbestos with impunity, activists fighting the global web of illicit connections and a man who was a double or perhaps even a triple agent – here is an investigative documentary whose protagonist continually eludes us.

dir. Sarah Share

89′dok2023

John Murry, an adopted relative of Nobel laureate William Faulkner and, above all, an alienated and troubled musician from the American South, travels to the Irish coast to find solace. The director accompanies him throughout his return to the past and in his symbolic attempt at renewal.

dir. Maria Mavati, Ehsan Farokhi Fard, Ehsan Farokhifard

27′dok2024

An elderly woman lives in a desolate area ravaged by droughts near Lake Hamun in Iran. She is the only inhabitant of one of the villages evacuated due to the lack of water. Every day, she walks on the sun-cracked ground, collects dried fish and waits for life to return to the area.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

9′anim1965

They meet at the seashore – he plays the cello, she wades through the water and fishes into a net. A sudden storm interrupts the romantic moments and the woman is swept off by the waves. Disregarding the risks, the man boards a boat to rescue the lady taken by the sea. Will they manage to survive?

dir. Nicolas Pindeus

25′fab2025

A sleepy town in the Austrian countryside. Lenz works in a kitchen and Carina is a waitress. Lenz likes Carina, but she is dating Fabian, who has a car and a hot temper. The young people kill the small-town boredom by going out to a local bar on Fridays. One such outing will have serious consequences.

dir. Mikołaj Janik

24′dok2025

‘By studying the history of light, we can study the history of mankind,’ says Janusz Chmielniak, Poland’s largest lamp collector, who has amassed over 1,500 exhibits from various eras. The film, made in the spirit of great adventure cinema, is a fascinating journey through the history of darkness and light.

dir. Nebojsa Slijepcevic

13′fab2024

February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

dir. Jean-François Laguionie

76′anim2011

In the animation, which takes place inside an infinite painting, the characters are divided into three warring groups. When a pair of lovers from two feuding families wants to be together, their only salvation is to find an artist and persuade him to complete the painting. An adventure version of Romeo and Juliet combined with a critique of social inequality.

dir. Michał Bielawski

84′dok2025

This documentary is dedicated to Andrzej Munk, a leading figure of the Polish Film School. Based on unique archival materials, it tells the story of a man immersed in history, his artistic evolution and the emotions that accompanied it.

dir. Wojciech Staroń

50′dok2025

A record of the most recent collaboration between legendary film editors, Agnieszka Bojanowska and Bogdan Dziworski – a duo that created some of the most important films in the history of Polish documentary cinema. Wojciech Staroń’s camera captures the behind-the-scenes of their difficult but extremely creative relationship.

dir. Daria Kopiec

14′anim2025

A metaphorical animation about growing up and the right to have one’s own opinion. The protagonist is like a goldfish – she fulfils her parents’ wishes and does not express her own needs. However, accumulated emotions begin to overwhelm her like water in a swimming pool. Should she drown in her own tears and unexpressed feelings or fight for freedom?

dir. Alex Sardà

29′fab2024

Arthur is a dancer and his dance company is to stage an important performance. He is also the younger son of a wealthy businessman, whose risky decisions could affect the future and well-being of the whole family. On the eve of the highly anticipated premiere, Arthur is faced with a moral dilemma.

dir. Luuk Bouwman

108′dok2024

Why did Jan Teunissen, a distinguished Dutch filmmaker, become the ‘tsar of Nazi propaganda’ during World War II? Composed exclusively of archival footage, including many materials unknown so far, the film tells a story of the man who, ‘for the love of cinema’, began collaborating with the occupier.

dir. Iga Lis

65′dok2025

Miecia is called the Queen of Łeba. She runs an iconic fish smokehouse, which is more than just a business for her. Influenced by her family and co-workers, she will have to take care of herself, too. This warm portrayal of a woman bursting with energy does not shy away from bitter undertones, and its backdrop is made of Baltic folklore.