I Was a Soldier

Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog to the judge's house, she discovers him listening in on his neighbors' phone conversations. At first Valentine is outraged, but her debates with the judge over his behavior soon leads them to form a strange bond.

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors

A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.

Krzysztof Kieslowski asks Poles of various ages who they are and what they want in life.

Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.

Interview with filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki

Portrait of Andrzej Mleczko - cartoonist and painter. Andrzej Titkow, a documentary filmmaker, is interested in Mleczko's satirical drawings which were extremely popular in the 1970s. With a seemingly reporter-like camera, he films the opening of an exhibition of his works and stages the situations drawn by the artist.

A bittersweet look at life in a Polish addiction rehab centre

"Give Me This" is a unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.

“Stu” theatre rehearses “The Patients”, a play based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”.

Director Andrzej Titkow and his sister Olga Titkow-Stokłosa research their family history.

A somewhat ironic depiction of life in a small Polish town at the beginning of the 1970s. The local brass band plays in the streets. Girls stroll, younger boys play soccer. Someone is looking at someone with interest, someone is courting someone, someone is parting ways. A poet associated with a local art group writes poems about everyday life.

A record of one day in the life of a chronically ill man. It begins and ends with a fragment from a poem by Horace, who recommends to appreciate every dawn.