Special screenings

11 films

  • As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up (Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado)

    dir. Natalia León
    anim2025

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

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  • Autokar

    dir. Sylwia Szkiłądź
    anim2025

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

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  • Colour (Kolor)

    dir. Jadwiga Kędzierzawska
    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.

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  • Day by Day (Dzień za dniem)

    dir. Irena Kamieńska
    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."

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  • Gucia

    dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
    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.

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  • Krystyna M.

    dir. Kazimierz Karabasz
    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."

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  • Luna Rossa

    dir. Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn, Luce Grosjean
    anim2024

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

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  • Painting (Obraz)

    dir. Bogdan Dziworski
    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."

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  • Sewing Machine (Õmblusmasin)

    dir. Ülo Pikkov
    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.

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  • Songs of Slow Burning Earth (Pieśni płonącej ziemi)

    dir. Olha Zhurba
    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.

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  • White Track (Biały ślad)

    dir. Adam Krzeptowski
    fab1932

    Jasiek, a young highlander, is secretly in love with Hanka, but she loves Andrzej. When Andrzej and Hanka are buried by an avalanche during a mountain trip, Jasiek and the TOPR rescue team rush to their aid. Shot against the beautiful backdrop of the Tatra Mountains, the film is the first Polish film to officially represent Poland at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Cinematography Award.

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