Marcin Koszałka

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The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful.

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Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.

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Does gloomy fascination that surrounds serial killers tell us something important about ourselves? The figure of Joachim Knychala, who murdered five women between 1975 and 1982, is used to focus our attention on those whose lives were marked by the infamous 'vampire from Bytom'. Among them there is a former journalist, Edward Kozak, who, despite his old age, admits he has a variety of obsessions. The film about the 'vampire' offers him an opportunity to enter the limelight one more time.

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Get an inside look into the Polish national soccer team as it competes in the EURO 2012, which was hosted by Poland for the first time in history.

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With a running camera adult siblings dissect their relations with parents and with each other. The protagonist of the film, affluent businesswoman, who still hasn't come to terms with the death of their mother and father, becomes the director's conscience. He is trying to get closer to his dead parents in his own way - filming the last moments of patients in a hospital.

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Marcin Koszałka returns in this film to a forgotten genre, namely a mountain film. The protagonist of his story is Piotr ‘Mad' Korczak, while somewhere in the background there is his rival Andrzej Marcisz. The director focuses on the career decline of a great master, provoking his reflection on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb mountains. A moving story about inability to come to terms with old age and the desire of immortality.

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They spend part of their lives there. Each of the women staying there has a separate story—usually long and complicated. They all dream of freedom, men, and a new life. But for now, this cell is their whole world.

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Part of the television series "Decalogue...After The Decalogue" is a prankish take on the Bible's fifth commandment "Honor thy father and thy mother"

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A moving documentary about women for whom prison has become a second home. Each of the women staying there is a separate story - usually long and complicated. All dream of freedom, men and a new life. But for now, this cell is their whole world. They watch the courtyard from behind bars and exchange stories about what was, what is and what will be. Freedom is the theme - they dream about it, but also feel fear it. Afraid to return to reality, the reaction of the family, friends, exchanging the world for the prison walls.

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An employee of a crematorium in the Czech city of Ostrava speaks dispassionately about his work and the technology of cremation.

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An aging Polish thesp looks death in the eye as he prepares for the inevitable in the absorbing, well-mounted docu "The Existence." While thesp Jerzy Nowak ("Schlindler's List," "Promised Land") addresses a number of concerns about the end of his life, the film explores the question of what will happen to his body after he donates it to medical science. Subject is handled respectfully and tastefully, balancing the clinical with the personal. Pic will thrive on the fest circuit and can expect a long life via Euro pubcaster outlets. (c) Variety

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The protagonists of the film are two employees of a Silesian morgue: an older, experienced worker and a younger one who has not yet mastered the secrets of organ harvesting. The film shows them at work in the morgue and discussing topics related to their unique profession. The younger man has a son, from whom he has long hidden the drastic details of his work. He also has dreams: to spend his vacation in the Seychelles. After work, the older man relaxes by skiing and spending time in his beloved pigeon loft.

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A documentary featuring the clash between the two cultures: Polish and Japanese. The filmmakers’ efforts to shoot the film are challenged by numerous obstacles they come across, that is cultural, linguistic, age and personality barriers and differences. Here is what Marcin Koszałka said about the film himself: “There are two jerks coming from Poland. They sit at some Japanese woman’s house, who is either busy or absent generally speaking, and they strive to shoot the film about her.

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A continuation of the style found in Such A Nice Boy I Gave Birth To is applied to another family situation: the son has a wife and child now.

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A short documentary.

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Among the residents are mentally disabled and autistic people. Most of them are single. "The name day party must be held in splendor and glory. So that the director likes it and is happy with you," the group's caregiver oversees the entire artistic program. The routine and monotony are interrupted by preparations for the name day. And then... everyday life returns. Routine and monotony.

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A bold uncompromising look at the hell of the director's real-life family life. He still shares the apartment with his dysfunctional parents who use verbal violence towards him on a daily basis.

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A bold uncompromising look at the hell of the director's real-life family life. He still shares the apartment with his dysfunctional parents who use verbal violence towards him on a daily basis.

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The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful.

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Edward Popielski, a Polish detective, who suffers from photogenic epilepsy, which helps him track down criminals.

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A reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her own dark family history.

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A solitary mountain man finds a young woman who has been beaten and abandoned in the woods. He makes her the object of his passion, but her dark past catches up on them.

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A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.

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