Language

Polish

1–6 of 6 films

  • Why not Mushrooms

    2024 Adults 2 min

    by Ira Karapetyan

    1st year short film, Why not Mushrooms”

    • Experimental
    • Drama
  • Peasants

    2023 Adults 116 min

    by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

    When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

  • My Strange Older Brother

    2018 Adults 12 min

    by Julia Orlik

    A film about the relationship between a young woman striving for professional success and her eccentric brother. The main character is a workaholic who devotes her entire life to her job. She believes that this is the only right path and, even though it does not make her happy, she stubbornly sticks to her position. Her older brother has a completely opposite attitude to life and, seeing how his sister lives, tries to convince her to change. He often behaves eccentrically, embarrassing his sister in front of her colleagues and slowly making her life miserable. At some point, the sister has had enough of her brother’s insistence, which leads to frequent arguments and eventually to a breakdown in contact.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Kill it and leave this town

    2019 Adults 88 min

    by Mariusz Wilczyński

    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.

  • I’m Here

    2020 Adults 15 min

    by Julia Orlik

    An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he’s doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick, which often causes arguments.

    • Drama
  • Gusła or the Spirits

    2016 16+ 9 min

    by Adrienne Nowak

    Adrienne goes back to Poland, where she was born, to see her grandmother and ask her family about communism. In her aunt and uncle’s cosy kitchen she will learn that communist spirits aren’t the only ones to haunt the Polish imagination, and that there are many unexpected and old means to face them.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Coming-of-Age