Animals and people

19 films
  • Bloodline

    dir. Wojciech Węglarz
    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.

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  • Dance with Me, Dad (Zatańcz ze mną, tato)

    dir. Małgorzata Goździk
    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.

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  • Inga

    dir. Krzysztof Kopczyński
    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.

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  • JUMP! (Mój Konik)

    dir. Michał Cysewski
    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.

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  • Life and Other Problems (Livet og andre problemer)

    dir. Max Kestner
    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.

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  • Living Stones (Élő Kövek)

    dir. Jakob Ladányi Jancsó
    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.

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  • Monk in Pieces

    dir. Billy Shebar, David C Roberts
    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.

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  • Mother's House (Dom matki)

    dir. Changsoo Kim
    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?

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  • Peace to This House (Pokój temu domowi)

    dir. Kinga Kociarz
    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.

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  • Pet Farm

    dir. Finn Walther, Martin Walther
    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.

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  • Qaher

    dir. Nada Khalifa
    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.

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  • Taking Up Serpents

    dir. Matthias Lawetzky
    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.

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  • The Granny & Fishes (Poorzal)

    dir. Maria Mavati, Ehsan Farokhi Fard, Ehsan Farokhifard
    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.

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  • The Passion of Agnieszka (Pasja według Agnieszki)

    dir. Wojciech Staroń
    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.

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  • The Thief (Anngeerdardardor)

    dir. Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken
    fab2025

    Kaali notices that his beloved dog has disappeared and he is determined to find her. Has someone stolen or kidnapped her? A small town on the east coast of Greenland is an unremarkable setting for an odyssey - but it is here, while looking for his pet, that Kaali finds himself.

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  • The Town That Drove Away (Miasto, które wyjechało)

    dir. Natalia Pietsch, Grzegorz Piekarski
    dok2025

    The Turkish town of Hasankeyf lies on the Tigris River and has an ancient history. The construction of a huge dam, which began in 2006, has led to its submersion and the displacement of thousands of people. Following the two protagonists, we watch the destruction of the city and the accompanying socioeconomic transformation process.

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  • The Whale Song (Pieśń wieloryba)

    dir. Michał Hytroś
    dok2025

    The film is an impressionistic portrait of Krzysztof Globisz, a famous Polish actor. His post-stroke speech recovery becomes self-therapy and a creative process at the same time. Through his ‘whale haiku’, the protagonist communicates anew with his surroundings, while the viewers are provided with an opportunity to immerse themselves in his inner world.

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  • Whose Woods Are These

    dir. Kate Nartker
    anim2024

    Stepping barefoot on the grass, picking berries and, as dusk approaches, listening to the hooting of an owl and the steps of a wolf – the viewer gets to know a woman who went into the forest but never came back from it. Inspired by the true story of a missing great-grandmother, the film is a poetic tale based on scraps of memory, complemented by imagination.

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  • Zima

    dir. Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki
    anim2023

    A cat lover, Jesus leaving the cross and Christmas carollers holding pitchforks in a snowy and icy scenery. ‘Zima’, a psychedelic journey to a small fishing village, collects as if in a lens the behaviour, customs and vices of the Polish provinces. A horror-like animation in the convention of magic realism.

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