Wiesława Dembińska

Made just before the protagonist's death, Maria Kwiatkowska's film is a documentary portrait of one of the most outstanding Polish fashion and portrait photographers, Benedykt Jerzy Dorys. The co-founder of the Union of Polish Art Photographers talks about his artistic path and his personal life.

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

"Piwnica pod Baranami" - this legendary literary cabaret group celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1986. The jubilee ball, thanks to the host Piotr Skrzynecki and the invited artists, turned into a night of magic.

에밀리와 그녀의 노모는 적군파에 의해 해방된 폴란드의 난민이다. 그들은 미국 전쟁포로의 생사확인을 위해 파견된 연합군 위원회의 운전병 노만을 만나게 된다. 말이 통하지 않음에도 불구하고 노만과 에밀리는 첫눈에 사랑에 빠진다. 노만은 에밀리와 그녀의 어머니를 미국으로 데려가려 하지만, 유일한 방법은 국경을 넘어 불법탈출하는 것이다. 에밀리는 노만이 준 돈으로 안내자를 구하지만 병약한 어머니는 탈출을 시도하기엔 이미 너무 쇠약한 상태다. 딸의 앞길에 방해가 되지 않기 위해 어머니는 몰래 목숨을 끊는다. 어머니의 장례식 후, 에밀리는 어머니가 자신을 위해 희생했다는 사실을 알게 되고 결국 서베를린에서 기다리는 노만을 버려 둔 채 이 곳에 남기로 결심한다. 수년이 흐른 뒤 에밀리는 또 다른 여행을 준비한다.

The film doesn’t have any commentary. It presents pictures illustrating the history of Poland in chronological order: portraits of rulers and magnates, historical events, such as uprisings, but also balls, hunting, concerts, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In just twenty and a few minutes, the exhibition's message was captured - the heritage of the centuries and the image of the historically changing Polish identity.

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

A portrait of Waleria Mirecka, a teacher and social activist, known and respected by all the inhabitants of Racławice. She was awarded the Mother of the Village order. The woman also found both private and professional fulfillment in Racławice.

The titular “obrazki” (ENG: pictures) are both prison tattoos and wounds inflicted on sons by their abusive fathers and stepfathers. Such a son is the protagonist of the film. After many years, he meets his biological, previously unknown, father.

진실에 대한 철학적 탐구의 열망을 지닌 태우는 젊은 과학자의 인생을 그린다. 그의 이야기는 두차원에서는 프란세츠젝의 인식을 구성한 과학적 진보와 사건들을 다큐멘터리 화면으로 보여 준다. 가족을 부양하기 위해 그는 연구를 그만두고 의학계로 뛰어든다. 그리고 의식과 물질 간의 신비로운 연결관계를 받아들이기 시작한다. 그리고 자신이 친하게 지내던 환자가 뇌수술 후 죽음을 맞자 프란세츠젝의 삶은 충격으로 흔들린다. 인생의 해답을 찾아 헤매던 그는 평안을 찾지 못하고 가족의 품으로 돌아와 연구를 다시 시작한다. 그리고 강도 높은 연구를 통해 평정을 되찾고자 노력한다.

"Our Lodz Friends" is a documentary portrait of three women of different ages working in textile factories in Łódź. In the deafening roar of machines, performing monotonous tasks, they talk about their everyday life and dreams.

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic family he fled in shame and scorn, and their dilapidated country estate, bathed in an oppressively nostalgic light, prove ultimately inescapable.

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

The story of a farmer who's also a railway worker, and his family.

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?

한 무리의 청년들이 이상한 의식을 시도하며 사회의 낡은 관습과 기성 세대를 비판한다. 이 중 한 명인 주인공은 마치 연극 무대처럼 텅빈 거리로 나와 이곳저곳을 돌아다닌다. 그러는 동안 주류 사회의 위선과 경직성, 사람들의 공허와 외로움이 초현실적인 분위기 속에서 드러난다. 현실의 문제를 다루면서도 핍진성의 요소를 의도적으로 빗겨가는 실험적 연출이 돋보이는 작품.

A day in the life of women from the "Nawojka" Dormitory at the Cracow Jagiellonian University. In the 15th century, the patroness of the dormitory tried to study at the university disguised as a man. Today, more than 700 female students studying humanities or science live here.

This documentary wants people to stop armament. Instead of that, we should focus on humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. There is no commentary in the film, some images of the modern world spread the message. On the one hand, it is industry; on the other hand – famine.