Camouflage takes place during an university linguistics summer school where personal and professional rivalries are unflinchingly exposed. An idealistic young teacher comes under the influence of a veteran professor whose intentions are...

Shivers, Wojciech Marczewski’s award-winning coming-of-age story set in a 1950s Stalinist youth camp, is an unnerving parable of political indoctrination. Following his father’s arrest, 13-year old Tomek is sent to a youth camp designed...

Regarded as Polish cinema’s first ‘cult film’, Piwowski’sThe Cruiseis also considered by many to be a satirical masterpiece. Shot in a quasi-documentary style, with a cast featuring mostly non- professional actors, the absurd plot...

Assigning tasks to miners working underground, foreman Kacper sends his friend Oskar to the deepest and farthest coal seams so that he has more time for secret meetings with Magda, Oskar's wife. One of the lovers' rendezvous is...

Warsaw, 1941. The body of a beautiful young woman, the wife of a prominent lawyer, is found in a pool of blood on the couple’s kitchen table. Investigating the case, a Polish police detective is led to the Nazi-occupied city’s...

Behind the fences of a gated community, a singular game is being played out. The residents’ lives are regulated by an inexorable, patriarchal code. For years, the Nowak and Kowalski families have been embroiled in a vendetta governed by...

After a spate of child kidnappings in her hometown Wałbrzych, tenacious journalist Alicja Tabor (Magdalena Cielecka) returns to the city to assist the puzzled local police. As she uncovers more and more about the kidnappings, Alicja is...

60-something Polish Jewish poet Maria Linde (Krystyna Janda) lives a calm family life in Tuscany, as at ease with the local intelligentsia as she is with the migrants working in nearby tavernas. Shortly after she is awarded a Nobel...

Every year, a small group of Japanese students sign up for classes in the Polish Language and Culture Studies programme at the University of Tokyo. Alongside struggling to pronounce words like kiełbasa, second-year students are required...

The brilliant, self-taught Czech healer Jan Mikolášek who cured millions with herbal medicine is threatened by the Communist authorities in Agnieszka Holland’s biopic. The film is inspired by the true story of herbalist and faith...

Shortly before his death in 2009, Jolanta Dylewska interviewed Marek Edelman – a member of the Bund, and veteran of both the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising – about a somewhat surprising subject from his memoir of life during...

In 1933, the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (James Norton) is sent to the USSR, where he is to interview Joseph Stalin. After initially being restricted to Moscow, Jones defies the authorities and travels towards Soviet Ukraine, where he...

After repeatedly escaping from her orphanage, 17-year-old Olka (Zofia Domalik) is placed in a youth detention centre. With bitten fingernails and scarred arms, Olka has her troubles, yet she is not interested in flashy clothes or bribing...