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Polish
Description
George and George are both 83. Every summer they sail together on the Mazury lakes in northeast Poland, happy with the simplicity of life, the beauty of nature and their friendship. In this intimate film of friendship and joy, we see what might be their last summer on the lakes together.
2) In Touch
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Polish
Description
The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ‘’The Land of Thousand Lakes’’. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80’s and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into...
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Polish
Description
Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires. Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbor Marzena –...
Language
Polish
Description
Many of us know the freedom of our twenties—unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michał resolve to experience life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michał,...
5) Line 41
Language
Polish
Description
This documentary follows a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor as he returns to Poland. Until now, Natan Grossmann had repressed his desire to learn about the fate of his brother he lost contact with in 1942. 70 years later, Grossmann starts a search for his missing brother. His search crosses paths with Jens-Jurgen Ventzki, son of the former Nazi Head Mayor of Lodz. Ventzki is pursuing his family's dark secret. In tracing their family histories, they...
Language
Polish
Description
In 1946, Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last Jewish pogrom (massacre). The militia, soldiers and ordinary townspeople killed over 40 Holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, injuring 80 more. As news of the pogrom spread across Poland, Jews fled the country. The Kielce pogrom became a symbol of Polish post-war anti-Semitism in the Jewish world. Under communism, the pogrom was a forbidden subject in Poland, but it was...
8) Skrywane
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Language
Polish
Description
"Skrywane jest odkrywcze. 'Nieskończona prostota', 'rozkosz pychy', 'sprytna wiara', zwarcia antonimów, przyciąganie przeciwieństw, ich wzajemne przeistoczenia są źrenicą tego oka na świat, które Michał Komar nam tu otwiera. Wewnętrzny rytm tej prozy, potoczny i wyszukany zarazem, dialogowy i precyzyjny, dyskretny, lecz sugestywny, wciąga czytelnika niepostrzeżenie w tę opowieść o państwie i papiestwie, Rzeczypospolitej i Kościele,...
11) Kastratka
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Language
Polish
Description
"Jedenastolenia Giulia, jedyna córka kapelmistrza Fassiego z Saletto, wychowywała się wśród anielskich głosów chłopięcego chóru prowadzonego przez ojca. Śpiew jest dla niej tak naturalny, jak oddech, ale włoski Kościół epoki renesansu coraz bardziej ogranicza prawa kobiet, nie zezwalając im nawet na głośną modlitwę. Pobożny lud widzi w śpiewających damach tylko grzesznice. Gdy solista chóru ojca niespodziewanie rozpoczyna mutację,...
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