Kinoteka 2019
by jipster-96690 | created - 21 Feb 2019 | updated - 20 Mar 2020 | Public17th Polish Film Festival (London)
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1. Another Day of Life (2018)
85 min | Animation, Biography
A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.
Directors: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow | Stars: Artur Queiroz, Luis Alberto Ferreira, Carlota Machado, Joaquim António Lopes Farrusco
Votes: 2,744
2. Playing Hard (2018)
88 min | Drama
We 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.
Director: Kinga Debska | Stars: Agata Kulesza, Maria Debska, Dorota Kolak, Marcin Dorocinski
Votes: 1,182
3. Pardon (2018)
100 min | Drama
Set in the realities of post-war Poland, the film tells the story of mourning parents setting off on their last journey with their son, as seen from the point of view of their grandson Jan.... See full summary »
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski | Stars: Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Jan Jankowski, Michal Kaleta, Michal Benkes
Votes: 142
4. A Cat with a Dog (2018)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Estranged 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.
Director: Janusz Kondratiuk | Stars: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Robert Wieckiewicz, Bozena Stachura, Aleksandra Konieczna
Votes: 509
5. 7 uczuc (2018)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, jealousy, shame. Adas Miauczynski returns to his childhood, when - like most of us - he had a big problem with naming the accompanying emotions. To ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Michal Koterski, Marcin Dorocinski, Katarzyna Figura, Malgorzata Bogdanska
Votes: 1,608
6. Panic Attack (2017)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Director: Pawel Maslona | Stars: Artur Zmijewski, Dorota Segda, Nicolas Bro, Magdalena Poplawska
Votes: 1,630
7. Silent Night (2017)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Director: Piotr Domalewski | Stars: Dawid Ogrodnik, Tomasz Zietek, Agnieszka Suchora, Arkadiusz Jakubik
Votes: 2,957
8. Tower. A Bright Day. (2017)
106 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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.
Director: Jagoda Szelc | Stars: Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska, Anna Zubrzycki, Dorota Lukasiewicz
Votes: 700
9. The Butler (2018)
150 min | Drama, History, Romance
The film tells the story of the Prussian family von Krauss living in the Puck area, as well as the love between the Kashubian boy Mateusz and the German aristocrat Marita and is set between... See full summary »
Director: Filip Bajon | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Anna Radwan, Sebastian Fabijanski, Marianna Zydek
Votes: 983
10. Eter (2018)
118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
"Ether" is a story of a military medical doctor experimenting with science at the beginning of the 20th century in order to get power over other people.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Jacek Poniedzialek, Zsolt László, Andrzej Chyra, Ostap Vakulyuk
Votes: 532
11. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,033
12. First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Unrated | 79 min | Sci-Fi
When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe
Votes: 3,146
13. My Friend the Polish Girl (2018)
87 min | Drama
A fiction-film told through a female documentarian's lens, as she manipulates the story of an unemployed Polish actress living in London.
Directors: Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek | Stars: Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Daniel Barry, Max Davis
Votes: 78
14. Via Carpatia (2018)
75 min | Drama
A middle-class Polish make a trip across the Balkans, heading for a refugee camp on the Macedonian-Greek border.
Directors: Kasper Bajon, Klara Kochanska | Stars: Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski, Bajram Severdzan, Dorota Pomykala
Votes: 38
15. Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies. Love Express ... See full summary »
Director: Kuba Mikurda | Stars: Thierry Bazin, Bertrand Bonello, Walerian Borowczyk, Peter Bradshaw
Votes: 127
16. Diagnosis (III) (2018)
78 min | Documentary, Drama
The inhabitants of this city undergo the sessions on the couch. Unlocked by formally trivial questions, they begin their journey into the depths of their own feelings and emotions towards ... See full summary »
Director: Ewa Podgórska
Votes: 48
17. Maska (2010)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Fantasy
In a technologically developed but feudal world beautiful Duenna is forced to choose between love and the task for which she was created.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Magdalena Cielecka
Votes: 202
18. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,322
19. Zycie rodzinne (1971)
88 min | Drama
A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much of which he ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Maja Komorowska, Halina Mikolajska, Jan Kreczmar, Jan Nowicki
Votes: 645
20. Hands Up! (1981)
80 min | Drama
Five young men reunite on a freight train ten years after completing their medical studies. They reminisce about their shared past, when Poland was ruled by implacable Stalinism.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz
Votes: 436
21. The Sandglass (1973)
124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska
Votes: 4,978
22. The Third Part of the Night (1971)
107 min | Drama, Horror, War
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski
Votes: 2,703
23. Monument (I) (2018)
108 min | Drama, Thriller
Waking up on a cold bus, a group of students start their internships in a remote hotel. Are they prepared for what lies ahead?
Director: Jagoda Szelc | Stars: Zuzanna Lit, Anna Biernacik, Paulina Lasota, Karolina Bruchnicka
Votes: 503
24. Nina (II) (2018)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Nina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that with her husband, she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman who could have given birth to her child.
Director: Olga Chajdas | Stars: Eliza Rycembel, Julia Kijowska, Andrzej Konopka, Maria Peszek
Votes: 908
25. Fugue (2018)
102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. A dizzying psychological puzzle. Mesmerizing from the jaw-dropping first frame to the last.
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska | Stars: Gabriela Muskala, Lukasz Simlat, Malgorzata Buczkowska, Piotr Skiba
Votes: 1,160
26. Werewolf (2018)
88 min | Drama, Horror, War
Children liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.
Director: Adrian Panek | Stars: Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 1,625
27. 53 Wars (2018)
82 min | Drama, Romance
Anna, whose husband Witek is an acclaimed 1990s war correspondent, keeps waiting for him to return safely from each war he reports from. But soon she gets overwhelmed by fear and anxiety.
Director: Ewa Bukowska | Stars: Magdalena Poplawska, Michal Zurawski, Kinga Preis, Krzysztof Stroinski
Votes: 216
28. Podróz za jeden usmiech (1972– )
201 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two youngsters in their early teens go hitchhiking all over Poland. Adventures ensue...
Stars: Henryk Golebiewski, Filip Lobodzinski, Alina Janowska, Jerzy Cnota
Votes: 342
29. On the Silver Globe (1988)
Unrated | 166 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki
Votes: 4,581
30. The Last Family (2016)
123 min | Biography, Drama
The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.
Director: Jan P. Matuszynski | Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna, Andrzej Chyra
Votes: 4,853
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