Boguslaw Linda

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love... (imdb)

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life... (imdb)

A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way... (imdb)

A small peaceful village suddenly becomes a very dangerous place when a foreigner appears with a wanted man. (imdb)

In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side. (imdb)

This film is based on the masterpiece "Pan Tadeusz" written by Adam Mickiewicz, a famous Polish poet in 1830. (imdb)

The old man Johnnie lives a peaceful but eccentric rural life with his young wife Veronica. Shortly after conceiving the child they have longed for, Johnnie discovers that he possesses previously unsuspected healing powers, and can control the elements, water in particular. He sets out to bring his magic to the wortd at large, leaving Veronica to fend for herself. (imdb)

he story follows the passing of a bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown. (imdb)

Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. His duty is to take care of one of the maffia leader's daughters. His problems begin when he falls in love with the 16-year-old girl. (imdb)

Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by the New, his fellow-policeman. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union...

Main hero Alex has killing already enough. He served in Foreign Legion, drug boss killed on order, until at last when there is already forty on neck, missed for Poland - country from which ran away before years. Colleague with him to motherland chooses after profession Andre together. Both "killerzy" fall in conflict from sopocką mafia. Situation complicates, when Alex begins granting feeling boss' girl.

Director Andrzej Zulawski's adaptation of Manuela Gretkowska's controversial screenplay tells the story of an anthropology professor Michal's (Boguslaw Linda) who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp, and the second - an enigmatic student (Iwona Petry) he meets by chance at Krakow Railway Station. (imdb)

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything, including throwing mud at his best friend, to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes wrong.

Kuba, a 30-year-old advertising hot shot becomes entangled in a series of mysterious and horrifying events when his boss orders him to find a Masza, the Russian model who has disappeared. His search for the girl on the billboard leads him into the dark criminal underworld of snuff films.

The Polish Underground's headquarters are seeking financial resources to cover the purchase of a huge delivery of weapons. The Polish Underground's Secret Service learns that the German Army is storing gold in one of the former Polish banks. The only people who can manage to rob the bank are Kania and his crew.

A story of a young couple trying to get money for a journey of their lives in an unacceptable way. They are ready to do everything to have what they want. Meanwhile, a policeman tries to find out who sleeps with his wife.

At a small remote gas station, in the middle of a winter snowstorm, a badly injured gangster shows up with a bag full of money. This sets the stage for a series of connections and coincidences among a group of people who live near the gas station. The station's owner, a sympathetic college student/part time gas station attendant, a police officer, and other mobsters all become entangled in the unfolding events.

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?

When Major Keller hears that a helicopter with Polish soldiers on board has crashed in the mountains, he immediately brings his squadron stationed in the former Yugoslavia to their aid. During the heroic rescue, they will have to fight many battles. While on their mission, the group also discovers a mysterious videotape containing evidence of war crimes connected with a very powerful politician. Keller - a man of high principles - must remain loyal to them.

Marcin is a shy man who knows nearly everything about computers, but close to nothing about girls. His friend Turbo is willing to teach him how to handle women in return for a little hacking. Soon, both boys are competing for the heart of the same girl and a 1 million dollar prize. Who will get the girl and the money?

The clash of emigrant reality is both painful and absurd. Even though they live on the edge of poverty, they send videotapes back to Poland pronouncing their prosperity. Where there are two Poles, there are three attitudes and where there are six of them, the only thing to do is wish you.... A Happy New York!

A phone call from a childhood friend Sygita makes Beata to visit her little hometown. The visit is short, but enough to bring back memories. They grew up together. While the first made a choice to live in a big city and to make acting carrier paid with loneliness and humiliation, the later stayed in her family town to lead a family life with her drinking husband and daughter. (flixter)

In the summer of 1943, the townsfolk of Lakotice are being blackmailed by the cruel and much feared Sekal. By denouncing his neighbors of crimes against the Reich, fertile land and property are rewarded to Sekal in exchange for freedom. Soon he becomes the richest man in town and the target of murder.

Martin Kroll desert from the army. His footsteps follow: superior, best friend, wife and friend from the army.

A Polish thriller. Central story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run (Linda) and the cop (Machalica) who put him behind the bars the first time around. (imdb)

This pessimistic Polish film stars Tomasz Hudziec as a boy whose father is arrested by the Stalinist police. To quell Hudziec's potential rebelliousness, the authorities ship him off to a Pioneer Camp, where he will be "re-educated." Camp life is horrible, but Hudziec goes with the program in order to impress a counselor with whom he has become smitten. Eventually he becomes an ardent Stalinist, so much so that he is barely recognizable to his own father... (NY Times)

Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint... (imdb)

A thriller based on a true story of a still living man who is considered to be the first hit man in the history of Czech Republic. (imdb)

The Battle of Warsaw sometimes referred to as the Miracle at the Vistula, was the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War (1918-21). The battle was fought from August 12-25, 1920 as Red Army forces commanded by M. Tukhachevsky approached the Polish capital of Warsaw and nearby Modlin Fortress. On August 16, Polish forces commanded by Józef Piłsudski counterattacked from the south. Unexpected Polish victory crippled the Bolshevik forces.

As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the democratic resistance. (imdb)

The members of the Mokotowska group are responsible for a string of kidnappings and murders throughout Poland, and have the police force in their sights. Mayan, the new chief of police and a veteran of undercover work, joins forces with the heroes of the original 'Pitbull' to fight back. (festivalfocus.org)

The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles. (imdb)

A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this situation won't stand. (imdb)

A talk show TV show run by Kuba Wojewódzki

Franz Maurer is released after 25 years in prison and finds a completely changed Poland.

In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted in the Austrian army. He chooses to enlist but this decision is weighing on his conscience. (imdb)

The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so-called Blue Police.

The body of a young woman is discovered in the icy river. The investigation is led by Zawieja for whom solving the case will be a fight for herself.

  In the 1980s, a group of Polish intellectuals visit Helsinki every year to attend a symposium and then talk about politics in a Finnish sauna. (imdb)

A group of backyard friends in a small town near Warsaw grows into a gang, and soon rules the whole town.