Merette (1982)

A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.

Edyta is forty and in the midst of a crisis. She has left her family, her husband and son and their house on the Baltic Sea behind her. She spends her nights in a Warsaw hotel room and her days driving around the unfamiliar city. When she runs out of cash, she hatches a plan: An ad in the newspaper – sex for money. Edyta never lets things get that far though, as she drugs her clients and then uses their apartments as a refuge for the night. Then she meets an artist, Patryk. A smidgen of luck and Edyta can no longer maintain her dismissive attitude. In this enthralling character study, Tomasz Wasilewski uses filmic minimalism to ensure that glances and gestures say more than words. He portrays a lonely woman in both fragility and strength, using precise image composition.

Действие фильма происходит в Праге в 1942 году. Павел, молодой судент, прячет на чердаке своего дома еврейскую девушку, скрывающуюся от фашистов. Несмотря на все ужасы немецкой оккупации, между молодыми людьми возникает любовь, но их отношения заканчиваются трагедией. Павел - единственная ниточка, связываюшая девушку с внешним миром. Мать Павла узнает об их отношениях и принуждает обитателей дома принять решение: может ли девушка дальше скрываться в своём убежище…

История о современных москвичах среднего класса и личных тайнах, которые они прячут за своим достатком и успехом.

Польша, начало 1990 года. Несмотря на наступившую свободу, всё время чувствуется дух прошлой эпохи. Четырёх, на первый взгляд, счастливых женщин разного возраста связывает непреодолимое желание изменить свою жизнь. Агата, молодая мать, живущая в браке без страсти, ищет возможности бежать за несбыточной любовью. Учительница Рената увлечена своей молодой соседкой Маженой — провинциальной королевой красоты, муж которой работает в Германии. Сестра Мажены Иза работает директором школы и тайно встречается с отцом одной из учениц…

Стефано, молодой реставратор, прибывает в одну итальянскую деревню, где он берется за восстановление фрески с изображением страданий Святого Себастьяна. Это произведение стало последней работой сумасшедшего художника, запечатлевавшего людей в предсмертной агонии. Все это оказывает ужасающий эффект на Стефано, чья реальность превращается в настоящий кошмар.

Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, who rumour has it, had an affair with her.

An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.

Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.

The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center

Jan Saudek, Czechoslovakia’s most famous living photographer, is the subject of this often-shocking kaleidoscopic biopic by friend and colleague Adolf Zika. With an unblinking eye, Zika chronicles the drama-filled life and work of a controversial artist who, though little-known in the United States, has enjoyed international acclaim throughout his fifty-year career

Действие фильма происходит в современной Италии, России и Польше. Девушка молодого итальянца Анджело неожиданно уходит в монастырь. Он едет вслед за ней, устраиваясь на работу в крупную энергетическую компанию, надеясь, что она передумает и они смогут быть счастливы. Молодой человек даже не предполагает, что его ждёт серьёзное испытание не только его чувств, но и веры. Ему придётся столкнуться с жестокостью и цинизмом современного мира, где правят корпорации, и сделать, возможно, самый сложный выбор в его жизни…

"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a second time by his alcoholic mother, who had earlier abandoned him, the resolute 11-year-old finds a "home" on a deserted old barge on the outskirts of his hometown. He is still an outcast, but he is an outcast on his own terms, rejecting both patronizing charitable gestures and coercion by local thugs. In the process he makes one true friend, a girl from an affluent family who is also an outcast, despite living in material comfort.

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.

Конец 19 века, задворки Российской Империи. Сельский доктор дает одной из своих пациенток - объекту своего вожделения - эфир. Доза оказывается смертельной и пациентка умирает. После совершенного преступления доктор вынужден бежать. Он находит работу в крепости, где продолжает свои эксперименты с эфиром как обезболивающим средством и средством контроля над людьми. Несмотря на все зло, которое он уже совершил, душа его еще может быть спасена...

Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him, and Janek will have to make a decision, of which he will never forget the consequences.

My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. The film itself is notable for handling the sensitive subject matter in an unsentimental way that is more uplifting than one might expect.

After spending some time in a hospital, Ewa returns to her Polish village to work on a wild rose plantation. Her family situation gets increasingly complicated, however, as her husband returns home from abroad, while it is revealed that Ewa has had an affair with a high-school-aged boy. Meanwhile, her relationship with her two children is strained, in particular with the headstrong Marysia, who is approaching her first communion. As things pile up for Ewa, she starts to realize that the time has come to make some difficult decisions.

A visionary romance based on a contemporary reading of Dante.