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see all genres ›The cinema of Poland has often been at least as famous for breeding directors who split for greener pastures (Roman Polanski, Agnieszka Holland and others) as those who stayed and made resolutely Polish art (Wojciech Has, Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski, in particular).
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A Film Unfinished
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw...Watch Movie
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Ida
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past. Eighteen-year-old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised...Watch Movie
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The Woman in the Fifth
American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet....Watch Movie
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Elles
Director Malgorzata Szumowska's ELLES paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity. ELLES stars the fearless Juliette Binoche (CHOCOLAT) as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig and AnaпїЅs Demoustier) for a magazine...Watch Movie
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The Rape of Europa
THE RAPE OF EUROPA is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in...Watch Movie
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Hotel Polski
A mysterious and little known event that occurred in Warsaw during the summer of 1943 that was referred to as the "Hotel Polonia Affair" is the subject of the short documentary from director Kama Veymont, who puts himself on a quest to find out what happened to around 2500 Jews who obtained false...Watch Movie
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
An invaluable introduction to a largely unknown creative talent (outside of Poland), KOMEDA: A SOUNDTRACK FOR LIFE introduces viewers to Krzysztof Komeda, a Polish jazz musician best-known for his score for Roman Polanski’s ROSEMARY'S BABY. Komeda, who died prematurely in 1969...Watch Movie
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The Mill and the Cross
THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Way to Calvary." Lech Majewski brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail...Watch Movie
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The Big Animal
A lovely, passionate film that exposes greed and pettiness while celebrating the most beautiful human themes: Love, friendship and tolerance. When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt Sawicki and his wife Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their family. The couple quickly forms a close bond with...Watch Movie
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Scrap Odyssey
SCRAP ODYSSEY's title (and Richard Strauss theme) refer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. But this odyssey is distinctly down-to-earth. Polish documentarians Paweł Ferdek and Łukasz Gutt offer an arresting snapshot of the shifting plates of global trade by focusing on one Kyrgyz truck...Watch Movie
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Niezależna Republika Samosiuk
A brief portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten Polish cinematographer who died in 1983, leaving behind a tremendous body of work in Polish cinema (such as THE BIRCH WOOD, LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE and AUSTERIA). Among his amazing accomplishments, he introduced...Watch Movie
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Burning Bush
Agnieszka Holland is an extraordinarily gifted and versatile filmmaker and although the events depicted in BURNING BUSH occurred forty-five years ago, the issues it explores are entirely relevant today. Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the...Watch Movie
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Sara
Sixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks for the right bodyguard to protect her. No one is better suited to be Sara's bodyguard than Leon. But the job gets very complicated when Sara and...Watch Movie
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Edi
Winner of several international film festival awards and the Polish submission to the Academy Awards®, EDI is a touching and highly involving portrait of marginal characters who manage to confront their misery and, at least briefly, somehow triumph over it. The film tells a story of two scrap...Watch Movie
