A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. In her vulnerable situation she becomes a easy target for her surrounding. Soon enough she get put in front of extreme choices which turns her life to a nightmare.
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."
Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek returns home to face the man he hardly knows. After a failed, guilt-ridden attempt to sell his father’s apartment, Tomek decides to make up for lost time. Kidnapping his aging father from the hospital, the two embark on a vacation to the mountains in an effort to restore some semblance of a relationship.
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
Arkadiusz Jakubik's directorial debut plays out on many levels. One of them is, as in the title, a simple love story. However, parallel to it and on the same footing is the reality of filmmaking.
Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the eleventh hour, and he called off the trip. Instead, the teenager is sent to his grandpa in the countryside. To drag Jeremi away from the Internet, his dad gives him a special mission.
Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
A groom and his pals head to Las Vegas for sin and seduction, but their bachelor party goes off the rails when a gun-toting mobster shows up unannounced.
Two decades after divorcing and taking separate paths in life, a former couple is working to obtain an official declaration of invalidity of their brief marriage.
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
"Honey Hunters" is a life story of bees and people. In order to get to the bottom of the mysteries of the life of bees and show them to the audience, the camera enters a contemporary hive and a traditional wild beehive drilled in the trunk of an old tree. It wanders the forests in Poland and Ural, mountains in Nepal and... roofs of Paris and Warsaw. For millions years bees have been laboriously building the natural environment of our planet. These days, they started to die by millions. A programme of wild tree beekeeping reintroduction was launched in Polish forests. It has been an ancient local tradition. Maybe reaching for the past, the original model of coexistence of bees and people, for wild tree beekeeping, can help us to save the bees? After watching “Honey Hunters” everyone wants to have their own beehive and harvest their own honey!
Edward is a perpetually irritable man - snappish with his wife, impatient with his daughter, and distant from his elderly father - until a serious accident jolts him into abandoning his old life to rediscover his family and the world around him. Without traveling anywhere new, he remains in the same apartment and neighborhood, but sees everything and everyone with fresh, contagious happiness.
Mikolaj, 22, together with his girlfriend Anna and partner Krzysiek, manage a literary publishing house in the center of Gliwice. Soon the young couple are to be married, unfortunately they have too little time to prepare for the wedding. The failure of their first book has meant that they must now focus primarily on the publishing house. At the same time, her ex-husband Andrzej arrives in Warsaw to visit his mother Maria. He has been invited to his son's wedding. For this celebration he is going to go just with Maria.
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
Klara, devoted to her work as a tax inspector, becomes infatuated with the dashing but irresponsible and cynical Marian who is about to be charged with tax evasion.
Anka is becoming extremely anxious about her beloved husband Witek, a war correspondent. But where does the border lie between reality and catastrophic visions?
Maciek (35), tricked by his boss, steals his boss's car and goes on a desperate joyride across. He drives across the interior of Poland, where people are preparing for a celebration of an unspecified anniversary. In the meanwhile, Magda (35), a Town Hall employee in charge of the anniversary events, Highly committed at first, gradually notices all the dirt and corruption around her. At some point, she must choose between her career and integrity, whether she should accept it or risk her career and leave. Finally, on the celebration day, Maciek and Magda finally meet. Will it change anything for them?
The film follows 12-year-old Ats, whose older brother Rain unexpectedly returns to the family home in a small seaside town to face their authoritarian father Kalju and their mother, a woman on the verge of losing love. Ats is a witness to the clash between his father and brother, two stubborn men from different generations with radically different views of the world.
On the last day of 1999, 20-year-old Sebastian locks himself in a TV studio. He has two hostages, a gun, and an important message for the world. The story of the attack explores a rebel’s extreme measures and last resort.
The miner leaves the mine and tries to start a new life.
Wanda and Tadeusz host a christening for their granddaughter, tension simmering as they reluctantly invite Małgorzata and her psychotherapist friend Grażyna. Just when the family braces for a fraught gathering, Andrzej returns to Poland, stirring old conflicts and transforming the warm celebration into a battleground where no one is willing to back down.
Agnes and Lucek take out a loan to buy an apartment. While paying it off, they grow further and further apart.
A story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who prepared the uprising, fought in it and won.
Kira, a 30-year-old Ukrainian, flees to Poland at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, after losing her husband. Her thoughts remain with her war-torn home, but here a new challenge awaits her: Kira finds out that she is pregnant.
Fifty-year-old F.P. arrives at a seaside resort. He wants to commit suicide. He has a family, money, and yet a growing aversion to life. As he begins to write a farewell letter to his wife, the ghost of his father, who committed suicide, appears. He tries to dissuade his son from killing himself.