
Acting
Anna Próchniak (born 22 December 1988) is a Polish actress who initially trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to acting, graduating from the National Film School in Łódź. Próchniak's first major international film role was in The Innocents (Sundance Film Festival 2016) directed by Anne Fontaine. Her credits include Polish Warsaw 44 (2014), Northern Irish Bad Day for the Cut (Sundance Film Festival 2017), Latvian Oleg (Directors’ Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes 2019) and Baptiste for BBC One (2019). Anna is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA). Source: Article "Anna Próchniak" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.

In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to his half-sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.

A Swedish TV presenter finally confronts her domineering husband about serious accusations made against him, causing her well-ordered life to unravel.

A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their four-legged pet.

Karol Weber, born in the mid-1970s, settled with his parents in a small town as a boy of several years. His passion was photography. We meet him at the most important moments of his life - at the age of 7, when his mother left him, at 18, when he experiences his first love and contemporarily, at 47, when he celebrates his 25th anniversary as a photojournalist. After the exhibition, he learns of his father's death. Charles goes on a journey to bury him. The night train escapade is full of surprises on the borderline between reality and dreams. Charles meets characters from the past - his mother, his father, Alina, his first love, and Adam, the friend he betrayed. What he remembers will turn out to be different from what actually happened.
To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band.

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

An absurd comedy inspired by George Perec’s novel “A Man Asleep” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, a short story by Herman Melville. Adam, a young man living with his mother, hasn’t left his apartment in years. After his mother’s death, Adam’s own life is being turned upside down. Since he’s not able to function properly without motherly concern and service, Adam decides to take his friend’s, the postman’s, advice and rent out his mother’s old room to a girl, who’ll take care of him.

Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.

The year is 1939. The world is falling into chaos. Thousands of Poles, held by the Russians in a former monastery, are subjected to brutal indoctrination. An ambitious enemy agent makes it a point of honour to break the resistance of one of them. He is a young, world-famous pianist, respected by his fellow prisoners. His capitulation may result in winning many others over to the enemy's side. An insidious game begins, full of sophisticated manipulation, threats and promises. Can the young artist, a loving father and husband, win a duel with an agent backed by the power and perfidy of the Russian system?

