1975 – SEA SCOUTS FROM PRUSZKÓW CITY PL 23′ (reportage)
A group of 30 Sea Scouts from central Poland on high-sea training vessel “ Zawisza Czarny “, filmed as they visit Casablanca and Gibraltar. [Play – Polish version only]
1977 – FILMISTOR: AN EXAMPLE PL 10′
Short documentary of a positional nature. A newly invented process showing enormous commercial potential can’t move from laboratory to active testing due to bureaucratic inertia so typical of the 1970ties period in Poland. [Play – Polish version only]
1977 – THAT’S LIFE – BOY ŻELEŃSKI PL 21′
Documentary with fictional elements. A short biography of Tadeusz Boy Żeleński (1984 – 1941), the medical doctor, social activist, author and translator. The social actions he led a hundred years ago are surprisingly relevant today. [Play – Polish version only]
1985 – TEACHERS PL 15′
A teachers’ meeting at a secondary school in central Poland becomes confrontational on the subject of how and what to teach in the country after the ending of Martial Law. [Play – Polish version only]
1987 – DEFENDER PL 53′
Interview with Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki on his life. During WW2 he joined the Underground, and was a WiN member (anti communist grouping of 1945). Condemned to death, he was released from prison in 1956. He became a defense counsel in the political trials of the next decades. He was one of the co-creators of the Solidarnosc Charter and to the end he supported dialogue as a main method of resolving social conflict. His legal eloquence supports a colourful story full of good humour. [Play – Polish version only]
1989 – SMALL STRESS PL 10′
An infant comes into the world and is immediately confronted with stress-building situations. Which the surrounding adults don’t even start to suspect… [Play – Polish version only]
1992 – HOLIDAY SAFARI PL 26′
Christmas in Central Africa. The people, animals and nature that we meet. The Family on safari. [Play – Polish version only]
1996 – OTHER PEOPLE’S WARS ENG 24′
Michał Bukojemski worked for ABC News in Moscow. When Chechnya declared secession from the Russian Federation, Russia invaded at the end of 1994. A dramatic close look into the work of journalists at war. This film is not for children. It contains material documenting war atrocities. [Play]
1998 – ROAMING THE OLD TOWN ENG 13′
A poetical tribute to Polish fighters of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. A formal tribute to the film of the same name by Andrzej Munk [Play]
1999 – THE RETURN RUS 49′
Moscow at the turn of the 20th Century. The Othodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the largest sacral complex in Russia. In the 1930s it was destroyed. After the fall of Soviet Russia in 1989 the Cathedral complex is rebuilt, and the Polish colony and Moscow Catholics regain their church. [Play – Russian version only]
1999 – TWO TEMPLES IN MOSCOW PL 26′
During the 20th Century all churches in Moscow suffered similar fates. In the 1930s Stalin ordered them closed or destroyed. A great rebirth took place after the fall of Soviet Russia. The Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is rebuilt, and Poles in Moscow recovered their church on Mala Gruzinskaya Street. [Play – Polish version only]
1999 – CONSECRATION PL 65′
The re-consecration of the Catholic Church in Moscow is a grand occasion – the successful culmination of ten years of struggle by the local Polish congregation. [Play – Polish version only]
2000 – 10 MICROSECONDS TO… ENG 29′
Two young boys explore the Sphinx and Great Pyramid in Giza . They talk to Zahi Hawass. It all leads to fundamental questions about „the beginning..” [Play]
2002 – ONE TAKE MOVIE RUS/ENG 27′
Aleksander Sokurov prepares to do his “One take Movie” (“THE ARK”) – a 90 minute single take, and reflects on filming techniques and film art. [Play]
2003 – AWARENESS ENG 28′
The generation that came into the world in Warsaw after WW2 were often brought up completely unaware of the true realities of their surroundings in People’s Poland. Was this good or bad? Wladyslaw Rodowicz confronts the positions taken by his grown children. [Play]
2003 – MASHA MOM ENG 35′
Two lesbians living in Moscow (1996-2000) want to have a baby… [Play]
2004 – RABBI OHAD ENG 28′
Every year an international group of visitors comes to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oswiecim to pray for the victims who gave up their lives in the Nazi concentration camp. The group contains members of several faiths…the lead figure in this film is a young Israeli Rabbi, Ohad Ezrahi. [Play]
2005 – THE COMMITTEE ON PIWNA STREET PL 50′
The imposition of Martial Law in Poland in 1981 resulted in self-organisation efforts in society. “The Primate Committee of Help to the Interned and Imprisoned” was the one. Evidence of those unusual times comes from persons involved in the Committee. [Play – Polish version only]
2006 – MARIA’S WORLD PL 28′
Maria Krzepicki escaped from the Lvov Ghetto in 1942. She succeeded to hide on Aryan papers in Krakow until the end of the Occupation, and then left immediately for Palestine. She never wanted to visit Poland again. Why? She shares her experiences here with teenagers. [Play – Polish version only]
2007 – MICHAŁ BUKOJEMSKI SECRET MESSAGES FROM THE INTERNMENT PL(only) 44’
In summer of 1982, author spent two and a half months in internment camps. He created a very personal film out of secretly taken photos and letters (secret messages) written to his wife – a testimony to the time of martial law in Poland. [Play – Polish version only]
2009 – TOVA’S WORLD ENGSubt 37′
Tova Ben Zvi spent WW2 in the Lodz Ghetto. She then came to Palestine to become a popular singer. Since the 1980ies she regularly comes to Poland to help build international understanding between the Israeli and Polish nations. She visits Polish Catholic churches and sings in Hebrew. [Play]
2011 – IDZIAK IN 3D ENGSubt 29′
DoP Slawomir Idziak loves new challenges. Jerzy Hoffman’s ” Battle of Warsaw 1920″ is shot in Stereoscope. The cameraman shares his thoughts on the proceedings…. [Play]
2015 – MY HAPPIEST DAY ENGSubt 66′
Marian Turski was 13 years old at the start of WW2. He spent the whole Occupation in the Lodz Ghetto, right up to the Ghetto’s liquidation
in August 1944, and was then moved to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Terezin. He then returned to Poland. His leftist views, that took seed in the “Litzmanstadt Ghetto” , took him to help in the re-building of Poland with full conviction… he worked in the “Polityka” weekly from its conception. [Play]
2016 – DAVID’S DIARY ENG 57′
Dawid Sierakowiak was a schoolboy in the Lodz Ghetto. He wrote a diary, whose value can be compared to the more famous Anne Frank. He died of hunger, exhaustion and tuberculosis in the summer of 1943. [Play]
2017 – ALUMNI REUNION OR THE POINT OF REFERENCE ENGSubt 26′
A gathering of DoPs meet 50 years after starting their studies together in the Lodz Film School. They carry these memories with them all their lives, at the meeting they establish common respect for their past. [Play]
