Wanting to leave their hometown, two friends set off on a military campaign in Afghanistan. When they return, it appears that their hometown is no longer the same.
Seventeen-year-old Sergei feels completely misunderstood in his immediate environment. Some of his aunts mistake him for his cousin, his older brother Remigius does not even open his mouth towards him, while his father would very much like to make him a world-famous boxer. The boy escapes into the...
An absurd comedy inspired by George Perec’s novel “A Man Asleep” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, a short story by Herman Melville. Adam, a young man living with his mother, hasn’t left his apartment in years. After his mother’s death, Adam’s own life is being turned upside down....
Janusz is a salesman in a furniture store. One time he accidentally tears a pillow - the first "accident" in the company in a long time. It seems that Janusz is very upset about it. Or is it something else that doesn't give him a break?
Jurek is 23 years old and he is a history student. He lives with his loving auntie, who raises him and supports him. Feeling that she is a cause and a symbol of his existential boredom, monotony and malaise, he reaches for the hammer…
Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Kapelusz is an adaptation of an excerpt from Kazimierz Barandys' short story "For You and Himself." The main character is a 12-year-old boy named Michał brought up by a despotic father. But one day he receives an unexpected gift from his father...
Adam, thirty-two, still lives with his overprotective mother. Their everyday life is filled with rituals of obedience and mutual dependence. Everything changes when one night Adam is accompanied by a man in a gray suit, visible only to him.
Joseph is 40 years old and has little reason to greet each morning with a smile on his lips. He has had as many women in his life as friends - zero. His living space does not exceed three square meters. That's how much space he has both at work (a parking shed) and in his apartment (a room in his...
The world-famous astronomy professor has been living in seclusion for many years. Will Martin manage to rediscover his genius? It turns out that the mysteries of human life are as unfathomable as outer space.
A tragicomic story of two people who seem to have grown sick of life. Harry and Sally are a middle-aged married couple. Harry tried to commit suicide. So Sally persuaded him to play golf, enabling him to escape from thinking about unpleasant things. However, Sally has less and less strength for the...
Nikol and Oliwka have a freedom the rest of teenagers can only dream of. Far from parental supervision and prohibitions, they leave according to their own rules. However, the world of adults is not so simple, as the sisters soon discover. Adolescence can beat everyone. The girls have to take...
Janek is a young medical intern who struggles with financial problems and doubts about his future. Although he has been working so hard, the day before his promotion he makes a risky decision that may change his life forever.
On her eighteenth birthday, Lena is trying to bond with her family. All Souls’ Day, a time for contacting the dead and getting together to return to one’s roots, puts our protagonist in a special mood and changes her outlook on her own problems. Everything that happens throughout the day will...
An attempt to tell the story of one woman's fate. What Ela wants is never said directly, but sometimes it is painted on her face as she cleans her house, dances, or cries.
The 19-year-old Krzysztof is a frequent gym-goer. He gets a job in a safeguarding company, which takes him to a Opera Music Festival. When the protagonist hears an aria for the first time in his life, his distance related to the world of classical music diminishes. Moved by the art so far unknown,...
Sophie has bad luck in life. She is a romantic, she doesn’t like her job and everyday, little inconveniences meet her. Real trouble starts when she meets her ex partner from whom she once ran away to another city. In the beginning, the girl believes in his transformation but their relationship...
Liza comes to visit her cousin whom she hasn’t seen for 5 years. They both return to their childhood games that they used to play. They seem invincible in their provocations until they meet Robert who’s the only one that doesn’t fall for their tricks. Intrigued by his attitude, they invite...
A metaphorical tale. Rumour has it there is an old man living in a forest, alone but with a great fortune earned in Africa. Having overheard the gossips, two Roma boys decide to verify the story. One of them has a premonition that the trip may not end well.
