Bad Boy Lemke

»I’d prefer to be the film myself than just the director«: with Klaus Lemke, the boundaries between life and screen are fluid. For more than 50 years he has made films on low budgets using amateur actors without a screenplay. His cinema is brutal and impulsive, every film a slap in the face for the staid productions of the mainstream. In Bad Boy Lemke, he brings unfinished projects to an end and reflects on his body of work – of course à la Lemke: radical, confusing and powerful.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Learning to Fly

Each year in Poland around 70,000 children and teenagers remain in the foster care system. The great majority of them have living parents – dysfunctional, addicted. The film shows the first years of the independent lives of Marietta, Michał and Ania, who were brought up in orphanages.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Case of Johanna Langefeld

The film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and Ravensbruck camps to escape prison and justice in Nazi trial.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Lidia Bogacz, Renate Steininger, Nina West

Tell Me My Story

Magda grew up in an orphanage. She never met her parents. Entering adulthood, she finally decides to find them.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Early Apex

The world of kid karting is fascinating and at the same time raises many questions. This little-known extreme sport is governed by the same rules as competitions for adults – what matters is rivalry, a place on the podium and regular training. Not all children are ready for such a sacrifice.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Viral Humour

Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have filled the Internet worldwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what this lockdown humor says about humans in distress.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Eva Mattes

YYAA. Wojciech Bruszewski

What is reality? Who holds the key to truth-humans or our own technological creations? Wojciech Bruszewski, a rebellious force in the realm of cinema, a pioneer in the global video art movement, a relentless researcher, and an intrepid art experimenter, embarks on a journey beyond conventional boundaries to explore cognition and pioneer breakthroughs in language, sound, imagery, and cutting-edge technologies. Through preserved films, archival recordings, photographs, and reactivated devices, we are not only introduced to his endeavors but also encouraged to partake in them firsthand. Serving as our guides into Bruszewski's mesmerizing universe are the man himself and a select group of accomplished contemporary art historians, scholars, artists, media experts, designers, and avant-garde figures in the realm of AI, all of whom contribute to his reimagining. So, the inquiry persists: who is positioned closer to unraveling the enigma of truth?

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Exodus - Persona Non Grata

Persona Non Grata is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Exodus, released on November 19, 2021. It is their first studio album since Blood In, Blood Out in 2014, and their second to feature vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza since he returned to the band that same year. This album also features guest appearances from former Exodus guitarist Rick Hunolt and guitarist Lee Altus' bandmate in Heathen, Kragen Lum, who both provide guitar solos on one of the album's tracks, "Lunatic-Liar-Lord". This Movie can be found on the accompanying DVD / BluRay of the respective releases and features behind the scenes footage of the Making of the album.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Gary Holt

The Good Change: Poles Apart

In recent years deepening political ideological conflict is tearing Poland apart. This film presents the dramatic developments through the eyes of two women on opposite sides of the political barricade. Marta and Tita are patriots, but their patriotism doesn’t unite them. Both are proud of their country and its history, and they want only the best for it. But their attitudes could not be more different. Marta leads a paramilitary unit, promotes Christian values, supports the ruling Conservative party and is ready to leave the EU. Tita, the liberal atheist activist, hates weapons, fights for democracy and feels content living in the EU. Is it possible to solve the growing crack in Polish society?

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Factorial Juggling

The story of the lowest point on Earth, a wild beach in Israel. It is there, on the border with Palestine, in a country where there is a constant conflict of war, that an oasis of peace has been created. A place where people come to lay their heavy bodies on the thick suspension of the Dead Sea. One day a new resident disturbs the harmony of the place.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Altered States of Consciousness

A film about the possibilities of our brain. A poetic journey deep into the world of thoughts of people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Where do the boundaries of our minds lie, and how much does culture confine or even extinguish our creativity in everyday life and even in love? In the film, we meet people of various ages who experience autism to differing degrees on the spectrum of the illness. With some, there is practically no contact at all, whereas others at first glance give the appearance of being “healthy.” Each of our subjects is a separate world and a unique means of seeking his or her own path in life.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Building the Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.

Genre: Dokumentalny, film TV

Actors: Julian Barratt

Blasko

A pioneer of indie music, Sarah Blasko walks the line between commercial success and artistic integrity with dignity. Narrated by Sarah herself, this film is an intimate portrait of the artist as she writes her new album.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny

Actors: Sarah Blasko, Ben Fletcher, David Hunt, Nick Wales

Don Lewis and the Live Electronic Orchestra

In the 1970s, Don Lewis, an electronics engineer and musician, constructed a synthesizer that generated and mixed sounds on an unprecedented scale. However, trade unions protested against the invention, fearing that it would take away musicians' jobs.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny

Actors: Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock

I Need the Handshakes

A small hamlet lost in the endless Belarusian province. Walentyna, who is 92 years old, lives in a little cottage off the beaten track where she takes care of her daughter who was born paralysed. A frightfully beautiful film about limitless sacrifice, great power of imagination and poetry which can replace reality.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Taссiana Babryckaya, Valiantsina Babryckaya

Miodowe Lata od kuchni

Genre: Dokumentalny, film TV, Komedia

Actors: Janusz Onufrowicz, Cezary Żak, Agnieszka Pilaszewska, Artur Barciś, Dorota Chotecka, Maciej Wojtyszko, Maciej Strzembosz, Marta Lipińska, Waldemar Obłoza

Come Back Free

A poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens' parting words to one another are, "May you come back free!"

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Kinior

An oneiric impression about Włodzimierz "Kinior" Kiniorski - a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the Polish jazz scene. It is an intimate and uncompromising film made by his son.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The House in Between

A dream home turned into a nightmare after a life-changing paranormal experience. The homeowner, Alice Jackson, refuses to spend another night at her house unless someone proves to her what she experienced has a natural explanation. Directors’ Steve Gonsalves and Kendall Whelpton headed to Mississippi with their camera crew to document the real-life effects of a homeowner’s mission to get her house back from this terrifying nightmare. The approach was much like a detective chasing down leads and connecting the dots. With a no stone left unturned mindset, utilizing real scientific data via physicists, field experts and deep accurate research. The filmmakers were also adamant their film crew be very experienced in the field of paranormal research because of the sensitive nature of this case. The directors hand selected each film crew member not only for their respective production expertise but also for their dedication to the documentation of real paranormal research.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Horror, Thriller

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Ewa Farna 10: Neznámá známá

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny

Actors: Ewa Farna

Holy Water

There are 36 days left before Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. On another Baptism of Christ holiday an ice hole was made in a pond in a bedroom suburb of Kyiv. Church bells are heard on the shore, people are undressing, standing in line... In this short observational film, closeups of people of different ages, lines of naked bodies and short conversations tell us about the fragility of life, the contradictions of human faith and the joy of existence.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Fight

Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration’s historic assault on civil liberties - from separating families at the border, to rolling back transgender, reproductive, and voting rights.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Yarik the Rascal

The movie is about Yarik "Rascal" Godunok, the commander of a volunteer squad in the Russo-Ukrainian War. His small unit held the defense of one of the villages in Kyiv region against Russian troops for almost a month. During this time, he survived many shellings, got wounded several times, and had to overcome the distrust of military officials.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion

Hiding behind the shiny Instagram façade of Brandy Melville, the go-to clothing brand for young women, is a shockingly toxic culture that lies within the global fast fashion industry.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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