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- DirectorJerzy ZielinskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczMagdalena PoplawskaBartlomiej TopaA comedy about Edward--a husband, father, and corporate employee weighed down by everyday struggles--who discovers the ultimate beauty in life and becomes a free, happy man. He also shows that the most important things--love, happiness, friendship, and time spent with our loved ones--are free. Edward's story is an unpretentious, positive film, which proves that happiness is contagious within 800 meters. Happiness is just around the corner.
- DirectorJanusz KondratiukStarsOlgierd LukaszewiczRobert WieckiewiczBozena StachuraEstranged brothers Andrzej and Janusz are both acclaimed film directors. When older Andrzej gets paralyzed after the stroke, Janusz and his wife decide to take care of him.
- DirectorBorys LankoszStarsRobert WieckiewiczJerzy TrelaMagdalena WalachA big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to start a new life in picturesque town in south-east Poland - Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish - Jewish relations and real findings of his work - that roots of some legends are fantasy, not a grain of truth...
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczJulia KijowskaAdam WoronowiczJerzy is a celebrity writer and a chronic alcoholic who camouflages his drinking problem with his wits and charm. As a frequent visitor of the rehab center, he meets fellow addicts from all walks of life and social backgrounds.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsRobert WieckiewiczAgnieszka GrochowskaIwona BielskaThe 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.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsRobert WieckiewiczBenno FürmannAgnieszka GrochowskaA dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsArkadiusz JakubikMarian DziedzielKinga PreisA zootechnician visits a remote farm, developing relationships with tragic consequences, and 1982 during Martial Law, as investigators reconstruct the 1978 crime scene to solve a multiple murder case involving the zootechnician.
- DirectorJerzy StuhrStarsJerzy StuhrMaciej StuhrSonia BohosiewiczThe film begins with the protagonist's tragic accident that happens before he enters the television building and is coincidentally connected to the President of Poland's visit to the building. After this, the action takes place in the hospital room where the protagonist is being brought back to life. In the patient's hallucinations his 60-year life is being replayed--childhood, youth, and adulthood--and is intertwined with Poland's postwar history through various political systems until a surprising end.
- DirectorSzymon JakubowskiStarsAdam FerencyLech DyblikMarian DziedzielGeneral prosecutor is asking young police computer expert for help in bank robbery case where three elderly gentlemen have been red handed inside the vault. From the footage collect from Bank camera it looks that bank robbers had some technical support from outside and the algorithm used to open the vault is very similar to released seven years before by our young police expert. Now the heat is on him. Force to run to avoid arrest he needs to solve the case to clear his name.
- DirectorSam AkinaMichal ChacinskiStarsAgnieszka WiedlochaMaciej StuhrBoguslaw LindaTomek and Ania finally decide to get married. The wedding, according to the wishes of Ania, will take place at the family members of Tomek with whom he has had no contact for years. It turns out that his brothers and his mother are like an Italian family where every conversation threatens to lead to an explosion and where a loving relationship and a quarrel are close together. Also the mother of Ania does not make a good impression on the mother of Tomek when she appears at the wedding with a much younger partner. The unexpected arrival of Tomek's father, whom he has not seen for years, is the drop that makes the bucket overflow .
- DirectorAleksander PietrzakStarsWojciech MecwaldowskiJan PeszekAnna SmolowikThe title protagonist is an orderly art teacher whose main problem in life is his father - an incessantly partying artist-painter. When the senior suffers a second heart attack and yet refuses to change his lifestyle, Juliusz will have to find a way to influence his behavior. The cure for the hero's ills will seem to be accidentally met, careless veterinarian - Dorota. It will turn out, however, that real problems are just coming .
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsMaciej StuhrSonia BohosiewiczNatalia RybickaJazzman Fabian comes back to Poland from England and sets up a swing big band in his hometown. He soon falls for singer Modesta, the mysterious sensual femme fatale.
- DirectorBettina OberliStarsAgnieszka GrochowskaMarthe KellerAndré JungWanda, a Polish woman, takes care of 70-year-old Joseph in his family villa on the lake. She is always there for him and also helps his wife Elsa. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her family.
- DirectorDariusz GajewskiStarsAgnieszka GrochowskaBartlomiej TopaBarbara KubiakA 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.
- DirectorJanusz KaminskiStarsSzymon BobrowskiTadeusz BorowskiStefan BurczykA young married but childless couple invites an orphan boy to spend Christmas with them.
- DirectorMaciej PieprzycaStarsDawid OgrodnikCyprian GrabowskiPiotr AdamczykTells the story of Mieczyslaw 'Mietek' Kosz, a Polish jazz pianist, from his childhood to his death under tragic circumstances.
- DirectorBorys LankoszStarsMagdalena CieleckaRafal MackowiakModest RucinskiReporter Alicja Tabor returns to Walbrzych, the city of her childhood. There she will go back to all her hardcore family secret dramas, and start investigating a sinister case related to the disappearance of children.
- DirectorMaciej PieprzycaStarsDawid OgrodnikDorota KolakArkadiusz JakubikThe story of a boy suffering from cerebral palsy and his troubled growing up during Poland's transition in the 1980s and 90s.
- DirectorTomasz KoneckiStarsRoma GasiorowskaPiotr AdamczykMaksymilian Balcerowski"Their Lucky Stars" is a charming summer-holiday-vibe story of love that appears in unexpected circumstances. The peaceful and organized life of Robert (Piotr Adamczyk), a symphony orchestra musician and single dad to a ten-year- -old boy, Filip (Maks Balcerowski), takes a sudden turn when Marta (Roma Gasiorowska), a charming and energetic popular fitness star runs into it. Two dissimilar characters, two different takes on love and life. Marta has her own TV-shows and writes culinary books, and her face appears on the covers of the most popular magazines. Robert is a walking denial of the "sporty way of life". A go-getting celebrity and a man intimidated by her charm. Why did fate bring them together? Will they be able to find their happiness with each other?
- DirectorMaciej MigasStarsTomasz KotJanusz ChabiorJacek BraciakWhen cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.
- DirectorLukasz PalkowskiStarsJakub GierszalArkadiusz JakubikJanusz GajosBased on a true story of a drug addict who became a triathlon champion and a winner of Ironman competition.
- DirectorBartosz ProkopowiczStarsAgnieszka ZulewskaTomasz SchuchardtDanuta Stenka30-year-old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets beautiful, magnetic, mouthy Lena. He is dazzled from the first moment and his admiration grows when Lena not only understands his suicidal preoccupation but has a similar one. They embark on a crazy journey during which Benek realizes he is not the only man in Lena's life; also, she has cancer and she is not attempting to treat it. Admiration mixes with fear, and Benek finally promises to accompany her to the end.
- DirectorFranco de PeñaStarsAnna CieslakArno FrischRafal MackowiakWhen Polish teenager Mariola is duped by her new boyfriend and sold to a sex-trafficking ring in Germany, she is faced with a choice: die along with her grandmother, or adopt to her new identity as an experienced call-girl.
- DirectorMaciej KawulskiStarsMarcin KowalczykTomasz WlosokNatalia SzroederA polish gangster discovers the senselessness of his life.
- DirectorKinga DebskaStarsAgata KuleszaMaria DebskaDorota KolakWe look at three women. The 40-year-old prosecutor Dorota, the young student Magda and a distinguished surgeon, Teresa. They have something in common, an alcohol addiction.