Agnieszka Grochowska

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has become the main punching bag for his sadistic father. Administering beatings with his belt for the slightest provocation, Wojciech's father occasionally tries to bond with the kid but soon snaps back to abusive habits. Apart form Wojciech's friend, Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone.

Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young hip architect. (Amazon)

WARSAW is a film with many storylines, all of which play out during a single day in winter. The main characters are linked through the city in which they find themselves. They also share the fact that they all come from the provinces. Each of them has different plans and objectives upon arriving in the capital.

A lawyer for a prestigious LA law firm gets a call from a Polish girl he met some time ago. She was a waiter and the night was theirs. Now she's pregnant and also, perhaps, underage. Ian goes to Warsaw to see if he can salvage the situation, but will he salvage... himself?

The film is based on the novel by Janusz Wisniewski "S@motność on the network". This is a story about love in the virtual world and the life of modern man who is surrounded by modern technology, however, yearns for a true feeling.

Upperdog is a drama about Axel and Yanne, half brother and half sister, who are adopted to Norway as small children. Here they are raised in separate families with no contact with each other. When Yanne's industrious friend accidentally ends up in Axel's family as a maid, she takes it upon herself to reunite them, and starts a process with ramifications she cannot grasp. (filmweb.no)

Jacob (29) leaves a monastery. On his first stop he meets Julia (21) - an attractive but neurotic young woman. Jacob wants to reach the sea. She decides to join him. As they don't have any money they travel by foot, hitch-hiking or riding stolen bicycles. On their way they talk, laugh, cry, meet other people and get closer and closer to each other as their journey continues. Julia, who used to be a prostitute in a big city, is diagnosed HIV positive. (imdb)

Veteran director Agnieszka Holland focusses on a little-known phenomenon in Second World War Poland, Jews hiding in the underground sewer systems of the major cities to escape deportation and the death camps. (tiff.net)

An orphaned youth entertains an unhealthy yearning for his older, emotionally and financially unstable half-sister, making him blind to the more appropriate attentions of a resourceful gypsy girl his own age in "Shameless." Far less sensationalistic than the title suggests, this attractively shot debut feature from helmer Filip Marczewski stands out from other small-town Poland tales by virtue of its unusual Romany character, realistic sense of detail and committed central quartet. (mrqe.com)

The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution. (imdb)

Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case. (imdb)

It is an idiosyncratic tale that takes a dim view of the way freedom is exercised in a toxic corporate-dominated post-communist Eastern European world. (hollywoodreporter.com)

A family of Polish immigrants lives in Sweden. One innocent lie triggers suspicions and leads to their daughter being placed with a foster family by social services. The parents undertake a dramatic fight to get their child back. (imdb)

The film tells the story of a young girl coming of age under extreme circumstances: Nina falls in love, goes to parties, and graduates high school - all in the Warsaw ghetto. One could say that, in these horrid times, she is almost living the life of a normal teenager. If it wasn't for the fact that all those around her are vanishing, one by one. Nina's Journey is shot in Warsaw, with Polish actors. But it is narrated by the elderly Nina Einhorn herself. (imdb)

Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II. (imdb)

An estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, meet up after 15 years at a café in London to heal old wounds. (imdb)

Violet is a shy teenager living in the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small town and shattered family life. With the help of an unlikely mentor, Violet enters an international singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. (imdb)

Konrad Wolski, head of the Q department, an elite Polish intelligence unit, taking over a Belarusian arms dealer in Istanbul, learns about a terrorist attack planned in Sweden. The weapon to be used in the attack is to come from the Soviet arsenal hidden in Belarus. Konrad immediately launches Travis, a Polish spy secreted in the Minsk KGB, to obtain intelligence information that will defeat the terrorist plan. (Canal+)

What could be worse than being imprisoned in a locked-down clinic where nothing is what it seems, and nobody believes you are who you say you are? How about beginning to suspect that they're right? Sanctuary is a suspenseful psychological thriller that deals with the defining human issues of survival, identity, trust and betrayal in a story that asks the audience: Who would you become in order to survive? (imdb)

Twenty years earlier, the Kopiński family dealt with a horrific situation involving the woods surrounding a summer camp. Now, one of the original homicide victims has resurfaced--with a different name and hints that he survived. Paweł Kopiński finds himself dragged back into the anguish of that dreadful evening. Not only did he lose his sister, he lost real connection with his parents, due to their grief. – Anonymous (imdb)

A story inspired by the life of Nikodem Skotarczak "Nikoś", played by Tomaszłosok. It is a story about the male world as seen through the eyes of women. Nikoś is a boy with an unbridled appetite for success, who specializes in the illegal import of cars to Poland. Gigantic money, building a car empire, a spectacular break from prison... His life is a constant ride without a handlebars, and his story shows how to fight for yourself and how much you have to sacrifice to be able to remain yourself.

A group of friends with their children go on a traditional long weekend trip on the Danish island of Bornholm. An incident between children will trigger a wave of crisis in their relationships. (imdb)

Maks is an incorrigible womanizer and a notorious liar at the same time. When Anna, a young and attractive woman, takes him for a disabled person, Maks will lie, hoping for another easy pick-up. However, Anna has a different plan - she introduces it to her older sister, Julia, who is in a wheelchair. Unexpectedly, Max's cynical attitude to the world and full of energy Julia begins to connect with something more.

Nina, a secretive ex-NATO Special Operations agent, must use all her lethal skills to save her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double chance for her. A chance for a new sense of adrenaline and the possibility of returning to life for her son, whom she must have had more . (imdb)

A modern thriller filled with intense sexual tension. Betrayal, jealousy, revenge and lies. A plot full of tension and twists of events.

Teenage girl Ada ends up in mysterious Kleks Academy where crossing to the world of fairy tales and reaching boundaries of imagination is possible. She also discovers a way to find out her most hidden family secret.