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- In a dystopian world, a woman spends her time playing an illegal and dangerous game, hoping to find meaning in her world.
- A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
- A young anthropology student stumbles upon the perfectly preserved body of an ancient shaman in a peat bog. As he explores the shaman's history, his girlfriend begins to exhibit uncanny, almost primal behavior that seems to echo the shaman's existence.
- After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous 'Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci. Cuma is contracted to steal the painting. He invites his former partner Julian to join the team, not knowing that his best friend is now a policeman and will do anything to prevent the heist. Julian seeks cooperation with an old forger Hagen and a beautiful young art student Magda.
- The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
- A film that examines the relationships between lives on both sides of the proscenium, Petr Zelenka's Karamazovi finds a Prague-based theatrical ensemble arriving in Krakow, Poland - where its members prepare to mount a stage production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
- Grzegorz, diagnosed as an autistic child, lives in his hermetic world, unable to establish contact with others. When he turns fourteen, it turns out that the cause of isolation is not autism, but hearing loss, which hides great musical talent. Thanks to the auditory implant, Grzegorz begins to learn sounds, words and music with which he falls in love. He wants to become a pianist and perform at the philharmonic hall. Nobody but himself and his closest family believes that a deaf boy - although supported by modern technology - will make his dream come true.
- The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks Poland, starting World War II and invades the country while Wojtyla seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appearing are all the other important stations of the life of the Pope, during and after World War II.
- During a routine mission on a distant planet, a group of explorers comes across a strange creature. Initially dismissed as just another animal, it proves to be much more than meets the eye.
- Young ambitious theatre director is chosen as a manager of small municipal theatre, in which ghost of past masters coexist with the living. He has to face actors' reservations and financial troubles to make the theatre successful. And it appears, that local authorities clearly want him to fail.
- Ania is an apprentice at a small hairdressing parlour along with her best friend, Kasia. The two teenage girls from dysfunctional families share a common dream of becoming professional hair stylists.
- In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
- The film consists of three episodes that describe various problems related to ethics in the world of sports. The first story revolves around a young swimmer preparing for the Polish Championships. Unfortunately, the girl suffers a love disappointment and therefore she loses the competition. The second story shows a boxer who, due to a fight with hooligans in which he participated, is disqualified. The third story tells the case of a cyclist who does not help an injured friend, although he does not win the race himself.
- A group of British tourists visits Poland to take a short practical course in communism. Young guides from the "Crazy Guides" travel agency in Kraków, teach them how to milk cows, plow fields, thresh grain, and work with a team of bricklayers. As a reward they get to eat potatoes and drink vodka while the guides recount for them the history of contemporary Poland.
- We Are Not Like Them connects four different locations in Europe and invites a quiet contemplation of these places as they are now in 2013. Using tropes of the early 20th Century documenatry film and the mid century espionage film to contextualise these sites (the former Wallsend and Walker shipyards in Newcatle Upon Tyne; Eisenhüttenstadt, a city on the eastern border of Germany, Nowa Huta, a city on the outskirts of Kraków in Poland, and the Groupe Scolaire L'Octobre).
- Film divided into three different episodes. In the first one, a saboteur damages the water pipes, which causes flooding of a cement stock. It turns out that the perpetrator is a member of the brigade of young concrete workers. The second story is about Jacek, who works in a brigade building a dam. He is recalcitrant and undisciplined. The collective tries to influence his behavior, but it has the opposite effect. Only an argument at a village party will change Jacek's attitude. Finally, a man returns to the countryside after completing his Polish Service stay. With the money he earned, he buys his godfather a horse.
- Two ecological activists engage in lonely struggle with air pollution in Cracow and try to comprehend the method of concepts systematisation.
- A story of a crippled, ex-steelworker at the Nowa Huta plant near Cracow, now living in Szczecin. He returns to Nowa Huta to receive an award on the plant's 30th anniversary, but it turns out that his name is omitted on the recipients list. Meanwhile his son is fighting the eviction from the apartment belonging to his father and the family over the years.