Movies: Marcin Podolec

A cat lover, Jesus leaving the cross and Christmas carollers holding pitchforks are set against a snowy and icy scenery. ‘Zima’, a psychodelic journey to a small fishing village, collects as if in a lens the behaviour, customs and vices of the Polish...

The main character of the documentary is a 16-year-old Kurdish girl who, after the tragic death of her mother on the Polish-Belarusian border, has to become a mother to her 4 younger brothers....

Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of...

Two concert halls for an audience of 2,500 people, a 14-metre guitar-shaped bar, 350 artists performing at the club during the 11 months of its existence, triangular posters hanging all over the city – this is the story of one of the first independen...

Pascal lives with his parents in a city full of smog. So many missteps and accidents happen in a dense fog. The obscure smog can easily hide people's secrets and infamous... insects. The discovery of one of these mysteries change Pascal's life foreve...

A fly on the wall documentary examining the passion for jazz improvisation through the reflections of Mikolaj Trzaska and lyrical narration of Andrzej Stasiuk....

Marcin, who is 26, is a colaholic. The fizzy beverage accompanied him during his play as a child, when doing homework and at school breaks. Quite imperceptibly, drinking Coca-Cola became as natural for him as having lunch or going out for a walk....

A portrait of a father whose children are living their own lives far away from him....

One day you will learn to draw, one day you will have an expensive car, one day you will achieve success - the list of expectations of a father towards his son makes the young boy unable to enjoy everyday life....

Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War ...

An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris”. A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s an...

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Two men spend the day together strolling through the streets of Łódź, following routes omitted from guidebooks. An attempt to take an honest look at the city and describe its atmosphere....

100 kilos of self-doubt: a massif of a man uses slam poetry to overcome his fears. One small step for mankind is one big leap for a shy giant....

In a fantastical sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears, but also the adversities of life. A story of learning and finding a path of inspiration....