Jaśmina Polak

It’s hard to dislike Mila; at 30, she carries her insecurities close, overanalyses everything, and is much kinder to others than to herself. When her friend cancels their trip at the last minute, Mila swallows her fear and sets off alone for a pole dance camp. Among sculpted dancers, scant costumes, and sky-high platforms, she feels awkward, alien, and instantly out of place.

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Emilia's son, when asked what his mother does, would reply that she rescues penguins. On the day Emilia leaves for another polar expedition, the boy tries to stop her.

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Deep in the thick forest, far from civilization, lives a small community whose rules are dictated by a mysterious ruler. The villagers spend their days working and endlessly awaiting the arrival of an expected guest.

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A successful and renowned novelist — haunted by trauma and a mysterious blackmailer — returns to his hometown to reckon with his unresolved past.

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In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.

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Kaja, a young and promising artist, is stuck in a creativity crisis. Overwhelmed by the pressure of the art market, with no support of her faithless partner, she organises a diabolic performance.

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A group of people sharing a ride accidentally switches cars with a bank robber, who then pursues them to retrieve the stolen money he left in the trunk.

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A group of friends are taking their kids to a traditional long weekend getaway on the Danish island of Bornholm, just like they did for many years. An incident between the children will spark a new crisis in their relationship. Each couple seems happy, but are they really? Maybe they’re just keeping up appearances?

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Set in Szczecin, Poland, the series begins after the body of a young woman is discovered under the melting ice. It asks ‘Who was she? Why did she die? Who did she leave behind?

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Teresa is suffering from postnatal depression after the birth of her son. In an effort to find comfort elsewhere she temporarily moves back with her husband to her parents’ house. However, the young woman’s family home conjures up memories of a previous relationship and a past love that perhaps has yet to be extinguished.

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The story of what Diana and Albert decided to do with their lives after break up, and how they responded to the very advice given to them by Jesus and Buddha themselves.

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When a heart breaks, the gap spreads along the weakest and most receptive parts of the enclosing world. ‘Fading Snow’ presents one night from the life of 35-year-old Mania who leaves her safe place – the theatre – and sets off to find her way back to home in a broken city of Warsaw.

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Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.

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Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

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Liza comes to visit her cousin whom she hasn’t seen for 5 years. They both return to their childhood games that they used to play. They seem invincible in their provocations until they meet Robert who’s the only one that doesn’t fall for their tricks. Intrigued by his attitude, they invite him to enter their hermetic world.

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On Friday evening, Janek has a meeting with his friend Bartek and his fiancée Justyna. Realizes that their relationship is in bad shape. He once had an affair with Justyna and sees a chance for himself when he is invited to a house party by them. Little did he know that he would be subjected to the final test that night.

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Thirty year old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets a beautiful, magnetic and mouthy Lena. He is dazzled from the first moment and his admiration grows when Lena not only understands his suicidal preoccupation but shares a similar one. They embark on a crazy journey during which Benek realizes he is not the only man in Lena's life - in addition, the girl has cancer, and she is not attempting to treat it. Admiration mixes with fear - finally Benek promises to accompany her to the end...

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Edward is a perpetually irritable man - snappish with his wife, impatient with his daughter, and distant from his elderly father - until a serious accident jolts him into abandoning his old life to rediscover his family and the world around him. Without traveling anywhere new, he remains in the same apartment and neighborhood, but sees everything and everyone with fresh, contagious happiness.

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An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.

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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…

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This is really season 7 of Days Of Honor, though the timings are out as some of the events in this series pre-date season 6. More about Polish resistance to the Nazis during WWII

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A comedy of errors about an unwanted pregnancy, a choleric father , a mother-in-law on his head, a nosy neighbor, a sadist dentist and a stubborn dog.

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A sociopath begins a relationship with the daughter of a couple he intends to murder.

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On her eighteenth birthday, Lena is trying to bond with her family. All Souls’ Day, a time for contacting the dead and getting together to return to one’s roots, puts our protagonist in a special mood and changes her outlook on her own problems. Everything that happens throughout the day will revolutionise Lena’s view of her family. It is a story of the search for one’s identity and roots, of life and death, of the co-existence of parallel worlds that come together through the power of love.

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A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.

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