Michał Leszczyłowski

Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?

The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.

Two young sisters go to great lengths to fulfill their mother's dying wish. Pursued by the grown-ups who want the conventional funeral procedures to start, the kids embark on a last journey with their mother to fathom the process of her death.

Vera's 40th birthday is approaching and she's tired of being single. She'e desperately in love with her colleague Frank, but her tired life-coach wants her to lower her standards, lock-on a more resonable guy and get on with her life.

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.

화성이주선 아니아라는 식량자급시스템 뿐만 아니라 지구에서의 가장 아름다운 기억을 떠올리게 해 주는 힐링 AI 프로그램까지 갖추었다. 우주부유물과 충돌해 궤도를 이탈한 아니아라는 수많은 이주민을 태운 채 기약없는 유영을 하게 되는데…

동네에서 가장 인기 많은 10대 소녀 ‘키라’는 별 볼일 없는 평범한 소년 ‘레니’와 가벼운 연애 중이다. 어느 날 두 사람은 아무런 준비 없이 임신 소식을 듣게 되자, 크게 고민하지 않고 아이를 낳기로 결심한다. 하지만 기대와는 다른 현실을 조금씩 마주하며 둘의 관계는 서서히 멀어지게 되는데...

Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...

Which human skills are we trying to learn the forthcoming generations? Childhood is observing 6-year-olds in a pre-school in Nesodden outside Oslo in the Direkt Cinema-tradition, made to debate when children are put into a school situation.

30 thousand Hasidim journey to Uman in Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of Rebbe Nachmann. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768.

Forty years ago, the first film about the Jordbro families was released. The latest one came out in 2006. When Rainer Hartleb once more trains his camera on the families, the children of the Jordbro children have grown up and live far from the area where the Jordbro story began.

세례 요한 축일을 앞둔 1890년의 아일랜드. 밤에도 해가 지지 않는 백야 축제를 맞아 아름답고 우아한 귀족의 딸 줄리는 하인 존에게 함께 춤을 추자고 명령한다. 감히 상상도 할 수 없었던 백작의 딸이 자신에게 관심을 보이자 존은 약혼녀 캐서린을 두고 그녀에게 숨겨온 연정을 고백하고 결국 두 사람은 하룻밤을 보내게 된다. 이튿날, 사랑의 감정에 젖어있는 줄리는 존과 함께하는 새로운 삶을 꿈꾸지만 존이 그녀를 신분 상승의 도구로 이용하려 하자 둘 사이에는 균열이 일어나게 되는데…

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

이라크의 길거리에 사는 고아 형제 다나와 자나는 매일같이 티격태격 싸우지만, 서로 의지하며 활기차게 살아간다. 영화관에서 슈퍼맨 영화를 훔쳐본 형제는 슈퍼맨을 만나기 위해 미국에 가기로 마음 먹는다. 슈퍼맨에게 부탁해서 못된 사람들을 혼내줘야지! 당나귀 ‘마이클잭슨’을 타고 미국을 향해(?) 무작정 걸어가는 다나와 자나. 형제의 앞엔 어떤 모험이 기다리고 있을까? 형제는 무사히 미국에 도착할 수 있을까?

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. They should be returned to their country of origin when they turn 18. In Norway child welfare custody of their children without close caregivers. This does not apply to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children between 15 and 18 years.

The artist Tova Mozard places herself, her mother and grandmother on the Royal Dramatic Theatre's main stage. In a therapy similar staging stories accidentally and unavoidably passes between generations, between mother and daughter.

Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

오매불망 손주만 기다리는 아버지. 그런 아버지에게 차마 불임이란 사실을 밝히지 못하는 아들 부부는 임신을 위장하고, 이런 사실을 모른 채 대가족을 만들 꿈에 부푼 아버지는 설상가상, 재혼까지 하겠다고 나선다. 여기 세명의 친구가 있다. 혼자 남기를 두려와 하는 외르젠, 자신의 애완견 래브라도만을 걱정하는 후안 그리고 세명의 친구 중에 자신이 제일 잘나고 잘 생겼다고 생각하는 자신감 충만 할아버지 아지즈. 그는 심지어 자신이 요리에 일가견이 있으며 여자의 심리를 훤히 꿰뚫고 있다고 자부한다. 그런 그가 곧 손자를 얻게 되고 할아버지가 된다. 자신의 완벽함에 화려한 대미를 장식해 줄 완벽할 손자 생각에 들뜬 예비 할아버지 아지즈. 아지즈는 자신 또한 완벽한 할아버지가 되기 위해 여러가지 계획을 세운다. 그러나 그의 마음과 뜻대로 일이 진행 되지 않는데...

Young adolescent girl Jenna's mother is dying, while at the same time Jenna is turning from a young girl into a young woman. So it is difficult for her to admit that she is afraid to lose her mother; instead she behaves contrary to how one would expect.

뉴욕 맨하탄의 젊은 부부 아래서 유모 노릇을 하는 필리핀 여인 글로리아는 필리핀 빈민가에서 빈한한 나날을 보내고 있을 두 아들이 그리워 틈만 나면 전화를 건다. 글로리아에 의지해 살아가는 부부 중 남편 레오는 출장 차 머문 태국에서의 지리멸렬한 일상에 숨막혀하고, 병원 응급실에 근무하는 아내 엘렌은 친모 보다 유모에게 모성을 느끼는 딸로 인해 괴로워한다. 재능 만만한 배우 가엘 가르시아 베르날과 히쓰 레저의 미망인 미셸 윌리엄스가 뉴욕과 태국 사이에 떨어져 혼란을 느끼는 부부로 인상적인 연기를 보여준다. 물리적인 거리만큼이나 멀리 떨어져 있는 가족들 간의 거리감에 대한 이야기.

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.

It’s Ireland in 1967, when a flying saucer full of aliens lands on Dan’s farm. Dan falls in love with an alien girl and tries his best to make everybody believe that she and all the other aliens are humans.

The Polish government issued a burial fund to the relatives of any deceased citizen. Now the undertakers of Lodz in Poland have figured out a way to lay their greedy hands on those funds. By paying ambulance drivers to get the information where the unfortunate relatives live, they went there with contracts to get the relatives to sign over the burial funds to the undertakers. The idea was that while the relatives was still struck with grief and sorrow, they wouldn't want to read through a thick contract and just sign it instead. Things really went ugly when the ambulance drivers figured out that they would make more money if more people died.

The last summer the five boys are together in Falkenberg. They are now grown up to be young men, on their way out into the world. At least most of them.

The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.

내전이 벌어지는 전쟁터에서 평범한 삶을 누리기란 불가능하다. 그러나 조조는 베이루트에서 가족과 친구들에게 둘러싸의 평범한 삶을 살고 있었다. 그러나 비극이 일어나 자신의 보호막이 되어주던 사랑하는 사람들을 잃은 조조는 살아남기 위해 스웨덴으로 가야만 한다. ‘조조‘는 유머와 감성이 충만한 드라마다.

In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.

Handlar om Minna 19 år och är en komisk, ömsint och känslostark film om att söka kärleken och sig själv. Om att ta makten över sitt liv.

Mia returns from Stockholm to her parents' home in a small town in Dalecarlia (Dalarna) to celebrate her father's 70th birthday. Her elder sisters Eivor and Gunilla welcome her, but their different lifestyles prevent them from really communicating. The tension builds, and the party that should be a celebration turns out to be a turning point for the family and their friends

"Cold/Kyla" - About the murder of John Hron at Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons. It's graduation and three boys gather at a lake to celebrate the school's over. But they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is intense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.

너무 평화로워서 할 일이 없는 경찰들 “그래도 난 정의의 사도 깝스다!”너무 평화로운 이 작은 마을에는 10년째 콩알만한 사건도 발생하지 않는다. 범죄율 제로! 때문에 이 마을 경찰관인 베니, 야곱, 라세 부부는 심심한 마을 노인들과 포카 치기, 온 동네 부서진 문짝 고치기, 순찰차로 마을 드라이브 하기 등 본업과는 전~혀 상관없는 일을 하며 시간을 죽이고 있다. 경찰서를 사수하라! “우리도 일 좀 하게 도둑 좀 나눠주면 안되나?”어느 날, 본부로부터 미모의 검사관이 내려와 마을에10년 동안이나 범죄가 없었기 때문에 경찰서를 폐쇄한다고 통보한다. 비록 꽃밭을 망가뜨리며 방황하는 소를 쫓는 게 전부지만 그들은 그들의 일을 사랑한다. 경찰서를 지켜야 한다. 어떻게? 눈에는 눈, 이에는 이, 경찰서 폐쇄에는 범죄율 상승으로!!!최고로 스펙타클하고 무시무시한 범죄를 저질러라! “이제 나의 초절정 스펙타클다이나믹 액션을 보여줄 차례!”경찰서를 지키기 위한 유일한 방법은 범죄를 저지르는 것! 경찰들은 ‘기상천외한 범죄 만들기’에 몰두한다. 한편 어리버리 왕따 경찰 베니는 이 일련의 사건들이 마을에 잠입한 악당 마피아들에 의한 극악무도한 범죄라고 믿는다. 엎어진 쓰레기통, 가게에 나타난 좀도둑, 이런, 이제 방화까지? 그는 예감한다. 드디어 자신의 초절정 스펙타클다이나믹 액션을 보여줄 시간이 다가온 것이다. 이제 내가 모든 액션영화를 접수한다!!!

지금은 황폐하지만 한때 막강했던 소비에트 제국의 시골. 16살의 릴리아는 새 남자를 만나 미국으로 간 어머니를 기다리지만 곧 자신이 버려졌음을 깨닫게 된다. 그녀는 돈이 하나도 없는 관계로 전기와 난방이 들어오지 않는 낡은 건물로 이사하고 유일한 친구인 11살짜리 소년 볼로디아와 남매처럼 함께 지내며 더 편한 삶을 꿈꾸곤 한다. 한편, 릴리아는 안드레이와 사랑에 빠지게 되고, 안드레이는 자신과 함께 스웨덴으로 가 새로운 삶을 시작하자고 한다. 볼로디아는 그런 그들을 질투하고 미심쩍어 하지만 릴리아는 스웨덴으로 떠나는데, 그녀는 결코 거기서 기다리고 있는 불행을 깨닫지 못한다.

22-years old Josephine has moved from Stockholm to Malmö in the south of Sweden after her mother's death. Her closest friend is her godmother Emma. In Copenhagen she meets Elvis, who falls in love with her. When her ex-boyfriend Simon turns up she must confront the scars from her past and also choose between Elvis and Simon.

Vanheden and Dynamite-Harry are approached by Sickan's grandmother and Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar. Their evil nemesis Wall-Enberg are planning to steal billions of euros of the European Union's grants to culture. The grant of 350 million kronor, paid by an Italian bank acting as intermediary, equals 60 billion lire but through assistance of a Sicilian "businessman", this sum becomes 60 billion kronor when transferred. The money is to be transferred to a large number of bank accounts, and the account numbers are saved on a floppy disc that the Jönsson gang is trying to steal.

친한 친구 사이인 만즈와 로로는 공원에서 오리 연못을 치우고, 개똥을 청소하는 등의 지루한 일을 하지만, 언제나 자신들은 멋지다는 생각을 버리지 않는다. 그러나 그들의 지루한 일상은 뜻하지 않게 깨어지게 된다. 만즈는 더 이상 남자 구실을 할 수 없게 되어 절망에 빠지고, 로로는 가족이 정해준 여자 야즈민과 원치 않는 결혼을 1주일 남겨두었다는 사실에 직면하게 된다. (출처: 부산국제영화제)

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson

기존의 가정과 사회가 강요하는 억압으로부터 벗어나 자유로운 공동체를 이루고자 했던 사람들 이야기. 엘리자베스는 남편에게 싫증을 느껴 짐을 싸고 아이들을 데리고 오빠 고란의 집에 머문다. 평범한 시골 여자인 엘리자베스는 전혀 다른 많은 사람들과 부딪친다. 다른 세계에 살던 사람들이 한 곳에 모이면서 생기는 충돌, 이로 인해 변해가는 그들의 삶에 대한 영화. 사랑과 이혼, 가족의 행복과 불행, 아이와 어른, 친구와 섹스 그리고 축구에 관한 이야기가 담겨있다. (출처: 부산국제영화제)

The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other child's name is Annika. She is a rough girl, with many problems. The three of them do not get along, and Yngve is a true dictator to the children's eyes. However, when the children discover that their new guardian has a crush on their teacher (Cecilia Nilsson), they do what they can to bring the two together. Soon enough, the three will discover that they have a lot more in common than they previously imagined, and together they can make their lives worth living again. This is a sweet story about life in Sweden in the mid 1900's. It is about family, love, hate, innocent friendship that we all can relate to, and much, much more...

One night a strange event occurs at a hospital in the north of Sweden. Three girls are born who are all baptized into the name Johanna.

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Maria is 8 years old and thinks her younger brother is really annoying. She meets Makka in the neighborhood who has a magic ball. In some way Maria wishes her brother away. When the babysitter Gerda turns up Maria and Makka think she's the answer to Maria's wish - a witch that has come to abduct her brother. Maria who deeply regrets her wish must now do everything in her power to stop Gerda.

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...

스웨덴의 한적한 마을 아말에 살고있는 16세 소녀 엘린은 태어나서 줄곧 자란 마을에서 하루 빨리 벗어나고 싶어한다. 한편, 1년 전 아말로 이사 온 아그네스는 엘린과 같은 반이지만 친구들로부터 따돌림 당한다. 아그네스는 엘린에 대한 사랑을 속으로 키워가고 그 사실을 알게된 엘린도 아그네스에게 자꾸 끌리게 된다. 소녀들끼리의 갈망과 사랑, 기쁨 등 성장의 코믹하고 고통스런 과정을 색다르게 그린 작품. 현재 북유럽 10대들의 패션과 성향을 한눈에 볼 수 있다.

A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address...

Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members.

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.

Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men.

Documentary depicting the city of Malmö, its inhabitants, and their life from 1984 to 1994.

Documentary depicting the city of Malmö, its inhabitants, and their life from 1984 to 1994.

Flore is a passionate politician. She is in love but under constant stress, dealing with issues on being black in a more and more aggressive society – Sweden in the early nineties. Soon it will be too much for her.

Psychological drama about the meeting between a neo-nazi and a Jewish doctor.

A forty something man, Bosse, perpetually down on his luck but always optimistic, hopes to impress his new girlfriend by accepting a job as headwaiter at a remote boardinghouse.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.

John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through his window. Following the plane is a family of six who invade his life and apartment.

작가로써 명성을 날리던 알렉산더는 지금은 시골 마을에서 살고 있다. 그의 어린 아들은 실어증에 걸렸다. 알렉산더는 자신의 생일날 아침 아들 고센과 산책나가 죽은 나무에 정성스럽게도 정성을 다해 물을 주면 꽃을 피울 수 있다는 전설을 들려주며 죽은 나무를 바닷가에 심는다. 알렉산더의 생일을 축하하기 위해 사람들이 모이지만 그날 제3차 세계 대전이 현실로 다가와 모두를 공포에 떨게 한다. 그는 세상을 구하고자 기도를 하는데 우체부인 오토가 알렉산더에게 그의 집 가정부인 마리아와 동침을 하면 세상을 구원할 수 있다고 말한다.

작가로써 명성을 날리던 알렉산더는 지금은 시골 마을에서 살고 있다. 그의 어린 아들은 실어증에 걸렸다. 알렉산더는 자신의 생일날 아침 아들 고센과 산책나가 죽은 나무에 정성스럽게도 정성을 다해 물을 주면 꽃을 피울 수 있다는 전설을 들려주며 죽은 나무를 바닷가에 심는다. 알렉산더의 생일을 축하하기 위해 사람들이 모이지만 그날 제3차 세계 대전이 현실로 다가와 모두를 공포에 떨게 한다. 그는 세상을 구하고자 기도를 하는데 우체부인 오토가 알렉산더에게 그의 집 가정부인 마리아와 동침을 하면 세상을 구원할 수 있다고 말한다.

Daniel, a visual artist, mourns the loss of his daughter Johanna. The intense emotions lead him into a crisis and an estrangement from his wife Sonja.