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- The film shows a possible version of events in the life of Captain Witold Pilecki. The film has biographical features. The presented version of events was not possible to present during the Polish People's Republic (PRL), i.e. in the years 1944-1989. The main character is interrogated and tortured in the prison on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw by officers of the Security Office of the Polish People's Republic. During the interrogation, the captain talks about his activities during World War II, an important topic is his stay in the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz concentration camp. The film shows the situation during the war and after the official end of World War II in 1945. After 1945, Poland was a Soviet dictatorship. People like Witold Pilecki, who was a hero fighting for Poland's freedom (dangerous to the USSR dictatorship), should have been defamed and murdered according to the law. Comrade Cyrankiewicz and other comrades from Moscow could not let public opinion that Pilecki was, among others, organizer of the resistance movement in KL Auschwitz. The film shows that, according to the official, only correct opinion of the communist party, Comrade Cyrankiewicz led the resistance movement in the Nazi death camp. After torture and a scheduled trial, the hero is sentenced to death. He was murdered in 25 May 1948. The film shows, among other things, KL Auschwitz through the eyes of a Polish prisoner, an officer. The Warsaw Uprising, the security torture chambers.
- The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. Suddenly a crack appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms. It turns out that these are the first symptoms of Alzheimer's. How will the heroes of the film deal with this diagnosis? Gerard's worsening disease puts family relations to a great test, and makes the hidden tensions, secrets and grudges come to light.
- A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
- A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.
- A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide in London on May 12, 1943. His act was to be a protest against the world's inaction in the face of the tragedy of the Holocaust. A story told from the perspective of a young British journalist who, like most contemporary people of the Western world, was unaware of the scale of the crime taking place in eastern Europe at that time.
- A thoughtful, detailed exposition of how and why the end of the Great War led inevitably to the Second World War, the most horrific in human history. Narrated by the great journalist Eric Sevareid.
- It tells about The Gleiwitz Incident, a covert Nazi German attack on the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz on the night of 31 August 1939, used as an excuse to invade Poland.
- Maciek (35), tricked by his boss, steals his boss's car and goes on a desperate joyride across. He drives across the interior of Poland, where people are preparing for a celebration of an unspecified anniversary. In the meanwhile, Magda (35), a Town Hall employee in charge of the anniversary events, Highly committed at first, gradually notices all the dirt and corruption around her. At some point, she must choose between her career and integrity, whether she should accept it or risk her career and leave. Finally, on the celebration day, Maciek and Magda finally meet. Will it change anything for them?
- A few days in the lives of three young Silesians. Marta is planning a wedding, Robert can't wait for the football match of his favourite team, Bartosz is finishing university studies. Each of them will need to rethink their future.
- Based on a true incident, the story follows the dramatic events of a holdup at a Polish embassy.
- Zosia is a 13-year-old CODA - a hearing child of deaf parents. Together with her dad, she sets out to compete in her dream swimming competition, which she was not allowed to participate in due to her father's oversight. Along the way, the characters face complications that place Zosia in the role of an interpreter and intermediary between the deaf father and the rest of the world. For a girl, having a voice becomes not only a privilege but also a burden.
- The story about people with disabilities, their sensitivity, finding their own role in life and playing others' roles. The inspiration for the film came from filmotherapy workshops for people with disabilities, run by the Gliwice Film Club 'Wrota'. This camera here serves as a filter through which people with disabilities find it easier to show and understand their emotions, overcome their limitations, convincing themselves of their own self-worth and building their self-confidence. The participants share a world that is far from our imagination. The key to it is imagination, and the pass is sensitivity.
- In 1902, the great surrealist Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz, Germany. Less than twenty years later, the first exhibition of his works turns out to be a political and moral scandal - young Bellmer is about to be arrested by the police. However, he is saved from oppression by the Silesian insurgents who make him an offer he cannot refuse, drawing him into the Polish-German battle for Katowice.