Sebastian Pawlak

When Aśka's child is born, she does not expect that she will have to face difficult challenges. She has to decide whether to raise a son or a daughter. At the time of birth, the titular newborn has biological features of both sexes, and the parents are to determine which of them will be surgically eliminated.

According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible...

Em 1983, a Polônia comunista é abalada pelo caso do estudante do ensino médio Grzegorz Przemyk, que é espancado até a morte pela polícia. A única testemunha do espancamento torna-se o inimigo número um do Estado. Representante da Polônia no Oscar 2022 de Filme Internacional. Seleção do Festival de Veneza 2021.

Four stories about women's issues, loosely connected, and all with an erotic element.

A story of Tomasz Komenda - a man, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, for a crime he did not commit.

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.

Rússia, início do século XX. Um médico militar usa uma dose letal de éter e acidentalmente mata uma paciente por quem estava apaixonado. Exilado em uma fortaleza e convencido de que seus experimentos vão alterar a resistência dos soldados, ele logo se encontrará no centro de uma trama de espionagem.

A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.

Janina Duszejko, uma ex-engenheira, astróloga e vegetariana, vive numa pequena aldeia pitoresca nas Montanhas dos Sudetos. Uma noite, ela tropeça no cadáver de um vizinho. O caçador morreu de forma misteriosa. Há vestígios de cascos de cervos na sua casa... Com o tempo, cadáveres dos VIPs locais são descobertos. Todos eles eram caçadores. Duszejko tenta convencer a polícia local de que eles foram assassinados por animais selvagens. À medida que outros VIPs são encontrados mortos, Duszejko se torna a principal suspeita. Quando a casa paroquial local queima e o padre, que também é o capelão da associação de caça local, morre entre as chamas, a polícia está quase certa do culpado. Uma história sutilmente humorística de amizade, amor à natureza e vingança, com personagens únicos e ambíguos. Uma mistura que vai do do drama psicológico à história de detetive de tipo pastiche.

A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife's sudden illness and his own health troubles; these are the three individuals at the heart of this film, a touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger.

Father and son on a journey in the forest. Their trip through nature is an act of initiation for them both. What looks innocent and safe turns out to be dangerous and vicious. A beautifully shot meditation on first encounters with the world as it is.

Based on a true story. Two brothers, Artur (22) and Marcin (12), murder their own mother. The film starts with the boys' arrest and then takes us through the last 12 months in a series of flashbacks.

1913. Em um vilarejo no norte da Alemanha vivem as crianças e adolescentes de um coral, dirigido por um professor primário. Um estranho acidente com o médico, cujo cavalo tropeça em um arame afiado, faz com que uma busca pelo responsável seja realizada.

Piotr (Paweł Królikowski) jest psychiatrą. Siedzi na nocnym dyżurze, gdy na jego oddział przywożą chłopaka. To Kamil (Lesław Żurek), syn którego nie widział całe lata. Chłopak znika ze szpitala równie szybko, jak się pojawił. Jednak Piotr postanawia nawiązać z nim kontakt. Zaprasza go do siebie i poznaje ze swoją piękną, młodą narzeczoną (Anna Geislerová). Po wizycie Kamila kobieta uświadamia sobie, że Piotr jest dla niej zagadką i naprawdę nic o nim nie wie. A Piotr rzeczywiście skrywa mroczną tajemnicę…