Movies: Poland

The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, ...

The Emigration Museum in Gdynia commissioned a short animated film inspired by the fate of Dżennet Dżabaga-Skibniewska...

Meticulous documentation of the course and rituals associated with a traditional, folk wedding. Images of nature and Masovian landscapes are intertwined in this study with elements of folk culture, the basis of which is the relationship between man a...

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Peter and Linda, a young couple from the UK, decide to spend a week in Eastern Europe. They go to Poland. They use a small camera to record their journey. Karol, Peter’s stepbrother, picks them up from the airport. The three of them set off to Masuri...

A visual movie showing the changing seasons, weather, sun and stars in a small village on the Polish Lithuanian border set to classical music....

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A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland....

Tracing the footsteps of North Korean orphans who went to Poland during the Korean War, two women, one from the North and the other from the South, bond through the solidarity of wound and forge together a path toward healing....

Warsaw is becoming a meeting place for people from different corners of the world, of different ages, with different life stories. What they have in common is a feeling of being lost and a dire need to run away from their solitude. The film shows an ...

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances....

“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be sho...

Brief portrait of a conformist....

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day....

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel Łoziński visited those places and met some witnesses of the carnage....

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter....

A documentary about the modern controversy between Poland and Russia over Russian prisoners of war from the time when Poland regained its independence, after the First World War....

Based on Michal Witkowski's bestseller, communism transforms into capitalism as seen from the perspective of 17-year-old Michaska, who enters the gay community of 1980s Poland....

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This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history and structure of the Esperanto language, introducing its present-day speakers. The words of these users of the language are reflective of a variety o...