Spirituality
18 films
Aferrado
dir. Esteban Azuela
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.
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Aria di Bravura
dir. Małgorzata Goliszewska
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.
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A Song of Humble Beauty
dir. Anna Konik
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.
Read moreCasting
dir. Rafał Łysak
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?
Read moreCosmic Balance
dir. Andrea Johnsen
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.
Read moreDom / Home
dir. Aleksandra Powalacz, Julia Powalacz
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.
Read moreD is for Distance
dir. Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews
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.
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Fear (Strach)
dir. Robert Zawadzki
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.
Read moreLovers in the Sky (Amantes en el cielo)
dir. Fermin de la Serna
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.
Read morePray for Our Sinners
dir. Sinead O'Shead
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.
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Shadowland
dir. Otso Tiainen
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.
Read moreSilver
dir. Natalia Koniarz
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.
Read moreAwards:Silver Horn / Nagrody specjalne
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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 Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
dir. Håvard Bustnes
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.
Read moreAwards:Special Award
The Graceless Age
dir. Sarah Share
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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreTwo Cigarettes (Dwa papierosy)
dir. Rafał Łysak
dok2024
After his father’s death, Rafał meets his killer. Daniel is 21 years old and has just left a reformatory. Although Rafał only wants to understand the motives behind the crime, his involvement quickly begins to exceed the boundaries he had previously set.
Read moreWhose 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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