Poland

by Mariusz Wilczynski

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grows in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and childhood cartoon idols, who in the consciousness of the successive generations are forever young and wearing short pants, come to live there, uninvited. When our hero discovers they have all grown old and that eternal youth does not exist, he decides to return to real life, and the amazing characters living in his imagination lead him back to the real world.

by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

Look at your hand from really close, choose a spot and stare at it for a moment, until you see a landscape. When the veins become rivers and trees you can watch Carnalis and the film will stay on your mind for a long time.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Katarzyna Orłowska

Monday afternoon, everything is drowning in rain and melancholy. The woman in a red coat doesn’t seem to fit in with the world around her. While riding on a bus stuck in a traffic jam, she dreams of escaping the routine rhythm of the city.

by Paulina Ziółkowska, Paulina Ziolkowska

Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Marta Wiktorowicz

During the black and white days a group of neighbours share a conversation that leads to the answer of a dreadful mystery. What happened to the missing child.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Tomasz Popakul

Black (黒) tells a story about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Karolina Specht

One day, She notices, that something strange is going on with Him. A short film about the confrontation of ideas and the real world. Do we live with real people, or only with the imagination of them?

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Julia Orlik

A man attends a banquet but he can’t fit to the company. He starts repeating activities performed by other guests.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

An official Cannes selection and winner of festival prizes and awards worldwide, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE is a daringly ambitious dive into the chaos of war, based on the book by the journalist Ryszard “Ricardo” Kapuściński, one of the world’s most compelling chroniclers of conflict. Intercutting a graphically bold animation style with interviews and archival footage, the visually striking film conveys a rare immediacy as it tells of the outbreak of civil war following Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Against all advice, Kapuściński is intent on driving south into the heart of the bloody conflict to find the isolated rebel leader Farrusco. His animated trip through corpse-strewn roads conveys an undeniable urgency, while the documentary testimony reminds us that we are watching actual history.

by Julia Ploch

The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Ira Karapetyan

first semester short film about people and life

• Drama

by Tomek Popakul

ACID RAIN is set in post-industrial Eastern Europe and follows a young woman who runs away from her depressing hometown. That’s how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo who lives in a camper and runs his not-so-legal errands. Their journey gradually leads them towards more and more eerie settings, revealing the attraction and repulsion of rave culture.

by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it. Ab Ovo is an extremely visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility lying dormant in every woman.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Marcin Podolec

A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental