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- An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.
- Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
- A Catholic opera singer and Jewish violin virtuoso dream of performing together at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City, but the German invasion of Poland tears them apart.
- Fearless seal Quinn assembles a squad of misfit recruits to stand up to ruthless sharks with razor-sharp teeth and reclaim the open sea.
- One night, Magda accidentally discovers the body of a murdered woman wearing a necklace shaped like the letter "W"--which is identical to the one Magda's long-lost friend Weronika possessed.
- Love for the world and other people and about the fact that everyone deserves a second chance. When Patryk receives it from a priest Jan Kaczkowski does not even suspect how it will change his life.
- Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
- The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
- Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.
- On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship's rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only "Hide me". Dawn comes a few hours later and so does a search party, looking for a murderer..... (In English & Mandarin.) Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
- Kacper, who works as a foreman, has an affair with the wife of his best friend Oskar, also a miner. To meet his mistress, he assigns Oskar to the distant and dangerous coal seams. As the lovers enjoy their rendezvous, Oskar gets buried underground, so they throw themselves into a rescue mission.
- Different strata of Polish society oppose communist aggression from Soviet Russia. Love lives on a par with war.
- A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
- Reporter 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.
- Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of having his winter slumber as usual. Winter is certainly totally different than he had imagined.
- "Fawns" is a Polish chapter of the feature-length anthology film titled "The Fourth Dimension." The other two chapters of the movie were directed by Harmony Korine and Aleksei Fedorchenko.
- Janosik, an 18th century outlaw living on the Slovak-Polish border, becomes a popular folk hero.
- Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
- The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
- After a serious car accident, Lukasz discovers that the blue door in his new room leads to alternate reality.
- Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.
- A man is murdered, but the person responsible avoids being discovered and arrested. A few years later a police inspector suspects he has found evidence in a newly-published book entitled "Amok".
- The tale of an extraordinarily gifted young man and his ambitious and wondrous mother.
- A modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an unspecified place (in a town at the foot of a cliff, between a garbage dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. Diana, after years of absence, returns to town with milk flowing from her breasts. He has depression and memory lapses. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect - Maj - befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the victim's daughter. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the broken world. When a ponytail entangles them while playing in the river, May knows it's a bad sign.
- Luke, a GP is about to get married to vivacious Katherine. On the surface everything is perfect, but as the wedding preparations intensify Luke is plagued by nightmares that throw him into chaos. Unable to sleep he visits a hypnotherapist. They travel down deep into Luke's subconscious mind and a mysterious world of forests, witches and fire is revealed. He attempts to reach out to Katherine but she is lost in the fever of the preparations and is blind to his disquiet. In the midst of this chaos, Amelia enters his life, she seem so familiar and something deep in him unravels.
- The story unfolds about the murder of an old man living in a remote village and six locals who may have been connected with the murder. Things get messy when the dead man turns out to be an ex convict. The accused ones find it very hard to deal with the preconceived attitude. The villagers, led by the families of the accused, have to fight for their innocence.
- Black comedy. A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by owner, set in idyllic but isolated Masurian village. Very soon a number of local residents and a few visitors mysteriously disappear. Nobody suspects that their new neighbors are a perfectly camouflaged vampire family...
- A happily-married woman wishes she had met her second husband earlier, so that she could avoid many mistakes of the past. When suddenly moved back in time to late 1980s she realizes she has one goal: find her future love.
- The film is inspired by true events and follows Michal Król, a resident of a provincial town. After a tragic accident caused by government negligence, Król decides to enter politics and run for mayor...
- Beginning of 1945, Poland. At the just liberated areas, the Communist Security Service eliminates its enemies under the pretext of punishing "national traitors". It organizes a labor camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, which is named Zgoda/Reconciliation. Franek, who is in love with a Polish prisoner Anna, joins the camp crew to rescue her. He doesn't know that one of the inmates is Erwin, his German friend, who, like himself, has also loved Anna for a long time. Franek joins Communists in the illusory hope of outsmarting the system.
- A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
- Back Home tells a story of a family. A very typical family next-door. Hidden secrets and inner parents- -children relations lead to disintegration of the relationship both between the family members, as well as between them and the local community. The desire to build family relations on the existing morality and a clear-cut moral code within the changing world lead to a crisis. The dynamics of contemporary social processes, as well as of the local communities of small and medium-sized towns, makes adolescents distant from their families and traditions. The protagonist, Urszula, walks the dramatic path to independence and finding her own definition of the terms that are crucial in life and for building relations with other people, such as kinship, love, dedication, brotherhood.
- The film shows an obscure episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal - Colonel of the Office of Public Security, Julia Brystiger. Her nickname was "Bloody Luna" because during interrogations she tortured prisoners with extreme cruelty. At the beginning of 1960s she appeared in Laski near Warsaw, in the Institute for the Blind, where the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, was also a frequent visitor. His imprisonment in the years 1953-1956 was supervised by none other than Julia Brystiger herself. During the difficult and tempestuous conversation with the Primate, Julia Brystiger rejects the communist ideology, asks for her crimes to be forgiven and for help in finding God...
- The story of an outstanding Polish painter, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and his complicated relationship with his son, Tomek, an extremely popular music journalist who suffered from depression and made numerous attempts to commit suicide.
- A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male-bonding adventure. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the cabin, their outing turns into a struggle for survival.
- Sisters, convinced of the teachings of Father Francis, cut off from the outside world and changing the way we profess their faith.
- Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.
- Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
- Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and enslaves women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of that women like and uses it for his benefits.
- A woman stumbles upon a valuable artifact, the crown that belonged to Casimir the Great.
- Ludwik moves with his parents to Cracow and starts studying in a new school. The boy shows rebellion against the surrounding post-war reality.
- In 1994 Rwanda, a Polish woman ornithologist saves a Tutsi girl from certain death. After a few years they both revisit Africa on an emotional journey full of painful memories.
- When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
- Ethnic Lithuanian father and daughter Vladas and Ruta were separated during the events of WWII when Ruta was just a child--she ended up with her mother--and have not seen each other since. Vladas remained in what in June 1961 is Soviet-occupied Lithuania; Ruta lives in Chicago. They have kept in touch via letters, using fake names to protect themselves from the potentially-prying eyes of the Communists. They only spoke on the telephone for the first time a few months ago. As Ruta is studying in Hamburg, she and Vladas arrange to meet in the west sector of Berlin, this meeting their first since the war. Ruta and her friend Aukse, also a Lithuanian-American, will stay at a pension in the west sector, while Vladas will stay in a consulate housing compound in the east sector, housing arranged by "comrade" Juozas Aleksandraviius, then cross over to the west sector for the meeting. After they both arrive in Berlin, they find that the geopolitical situation of the day in the city is not as free as they thought, which may jeopardize their long-awaited reunion. In addition, Ruta's presence at the pension may jeopardize the plans of some of the landlady's friends who are trying to sneak out of Berlin without the Stasi's knowledge.
- Two kids bring in a rock-and-roll fugitive from another world pursued by merciless bounty hunters, and in order to save his life they have to find a way to send him back to where he came from.
- Solidarity activists prepare a bravura heist, taking out 80 mln from a union bank account just before it is blocked by communist authorities.
- Karuzela is a four person drama. It is a journey inside the souls of the main characters across the reefs of everyday dilemmas - the merry-go-round of life. An individual approach to the subject, obscure narration and absence of easy answers is what allows every viewer to embark on their own journey around the universal story told in the film. They are not even 30 years old and they have problems with finding work. When something comes their way, it is only a temporary 'junk contract'.The characters have to overcome their weaknesses and face the harsh reality.They are taking their life exams and do not want to make wrong choices again.This is a game witch will evoke emotions, allow to identify with the main characters and their complex world.
- The action takes place in the artistic world of Katowice's elite, in the world of tasteful architecture, stylish interiors and works of art. Michal, a successful architect, and director of the art gallery Marta with her son in prosperity. Their blissful life is unrecognizable when Michal causes a dangerous product, a device. Family with trouble must, but something starts when weighing down to continue feeding on their shoulders. The spouses distance themselves from each other and both lovers. Will they save the feeling or will new relationships find it?
- An expelled university student investigates the suicide of Witkacy and tries to prove that the famous artist is still alive.