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 mother's place). The situation is further complicated when one day he is arrested by two strange men in unfashionable suits.
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 world of fantasy, which is the greatest of his passions. During one of the fantasy field games Sergei becomes a hero, which brings unexpected consequences.
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?
"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."
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...
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. Since he’s not able to function properly without motherly concern and service, Adam decides to take his friend’s, the postman’s, advice and rent out his mother’s old room to a girl, who’ll take care of him.
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 revolutionise Lena’s view of her family. It is a story of the search for one’s identity and roots, of life and death, of the co-existence of parallel worlds that come together through the power of love.
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…
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.
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.
Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.
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 responsibility over their deeds on their own.
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, he decides to take up singing lessons. Opera changes not only his preferences but also lifestyle.
A deeply devout 7 years old girl hears the biblical story of the shepherd and his lost sheep from which she concludes that Holy God seems to prefer sinners.
The film protagonist operates on the border of two worlds. During the day, he works at a well-known shop selling home furnishings, while after hours he is hired by a “cleaning company” to clean homes after the deaths of their residents.The title “A Story of Short Duration” is a reference to the diagnosis of contemporary capitalism provided by Kacper Pobłocki in his book. In the film, it acquires an additional meaning by contrasting the image of a life’s end with the beginning of one’s path related to the moving into a new flat.
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 him to enter their hermetic world.
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.
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.
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 turns into a string of fights and verbal abuse again. Sophie decides for a final resolution – she calls on her father.
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.
