Agnieszka Holland

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

From his juvenile, tormented, heroic roles, which made him a global phenomenon, to his darker mature roles, a portrait of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a consummate performer and probably the most successful film star of his generation.

Durante os anos 50, quando a antiga Tchecoslováquia estava mergulhada no totalitarismo, a surpreendente história de um homem com o suposto dom de curar levaria a um julgamento histórico.

A extraordinária história não contada de Gareth Jones, um ambicioso e jovem jornalista galês que viajou para a União Soviética em 1933 e descobriu a chocante verdade por trás da “utopia” soviética e do regime de Josef Stalin.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about several basic themes of human existence in relation to the Shoah: how was it possible to enjoy love, tenderness, passion and lust while the whole world was crumbling and burning around.

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

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 ...

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.

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.

French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.

Agnieszha Holland takes Jacek Petrycki on a journey to the places of her youth; she tells him stories of experiences of the past. It is a dialogue of a famous director with the camera, behind which, there is her true friend.

Leopold Socha, um trabalhador de esgoto e ladrão em Lvov, cidade ocupada pelos nazistas na Polônia, um dia encontra um grupo de judeus que tentavam escapar da exterminação do gueto. Ele os esconde por dinheiro no labirinto de esgotos da cidade. O que começa como um acordo direto e cínico se transforma em algo muito inesperado. A improvável aliança entre Socha e os judeus se torna uma relação que se infiltra mais profundamente na consciência de Socha. O filme é também uma extraordinária história de sobrevivência de como estes homens, mulheres e crianças tentaram enganar a morte certa durante 14 meses de perigo cada vez mais intenso.

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

Aos 77 anos, Brian Reader é um criminoso prestes a juntar um grupo de veteranos notáveis para realizar um roubo. Juntos, colocam em prática a ação que ficou conhecida como o maior assalto da história da Grã-Bretanha.

Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) é uma jovem de 23 anos que sonha em se tornar uma compositora. Como estudante do Conservatório de Música, ela é indicada para um cobiçado cargo em uma editora musical. Devido a uma série de eventos ocasionais ela é designada para trabalhar juntamente a Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris), o mais celebrado artista vivo da época. Inicialmente descrente, Beethoven faz a Anna um desafio de improvisação, no qual ela demonstra sua sensibilidade musical. Beethoven a aceita como escriba, dando início a um forte relacionamento entre os dois.

The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.

Califia, the Queen and spirit of California, gives the audience a quick and somewhat romanticized look at history of California, as well as trials and tribulations, but also hopes and dreams of its various ethnicites and cultures.

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry.

The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

Final do século 19. Catherine Sloper sempre se considerou uma mulher de poucos atrativos. Seu pai, o doutor Austin, a protege muito, mas não demonstra afeição por ela. De repente, Catherine conhece Morris Townsend, um homem culto e aparentemente perfeito que cai de amores por ela. Porém, Townsend não passa de um pilantra.

O turbulento período de produção literária de Arthur Rimbaud, enquanto apadrinhado pelo poeta, Paul Verlaine. A convivência e a admiração de um escritor pelo outro faz com que ambos de apaixonem.

Karol, um cabeleiro polaco e Dominique, a sua esposa, mudam-se para Paris. O casamento desmorona-se e divorciam-se. Karol perde tudo após o divórcio e torna-se num mendigo, recusando actos ilícitos para ganhar dinheiro. Após conseguir finalmente regressar ao seu país, tenta refazer a sua vida, embora nunca tenha esquecido Dominique.

Adaptação do clássico conto de fadas de Frances Hodgson Burnett, o Jardim Secreto. Mary Lennox é uma órfã enviada para viver na mansão de seu tio, que é cheia de segredos. Ela descobre um primo doente que nunca soube que tinha e um jardim abandonado, o qual está determinada a trazer de volta para a vida.

Após um trágico acidente em que morrem o marido e a filha de uma famosa modelo (Juliette Binoche), ela decide por renunciar à sua própria vida. Após uma tentativa fracassada de suicício, ela volta a se interessar pela vida ao se envolver com uma obra inacabada de seu marido, que era um músico de fama internacional.

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

Salomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider), um jovem judeu, foge com a família para a Polônia às vésperas da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A casa da família é invadida, mas ele consegue fugir levando o irmão, Isaak (René Hofschneider). Os dois se separam e Sallomon acaba se passando por membro da Juventude Hitlerista para manter-se vivo. Baseado numa história real.

Salomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider), um jovem judeu, foge com a família para a Polônia às vésperas da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A casa da família é invadida, mas ele consegue fugir levando o irmão, Isaak (René Hofschneider). Os dois se separam e Sallomon acaba se passando por membro da Juventude Hitlerista para manter-se vivo. Baseado numa história real.

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

Rússia, 1870. Um grupo de jovens revolucionários anarquistas se propôs a derrubar o regime czarista através da violência. Seus ataques criam um clima de psicose e desconfiança mútua entre a população, mas na realidade, tanto revolucionários quanto repressores estão sendo manipulados por um indivíduo diabólico.

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin.

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

A young couple who are unable to have children make a deal with a poor woman to buy her illegitimate child rather than wait through the time-consuming process of legal adoption.

Bednarz é escolhido para liderar a construção de um complexo petroquímico. Firme e honesto, ele acredita que isso será o suficiente, mas Bednarz precisa lidar com o descontentamento de parte dos habitantes locais.

In love with the pharmacist's wife, the intellectual Abdon decides to deal with her young lover.

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.