Films from A to Z

A seaside city. It seems like yet another ordinary day, but the local radio station broadcasts a hurricane warning. Seven couples, seven different life stories. What they share is an accident they all witnessed. This sudden break in the weather uncovers their hidden emotions, discloses dramas and secretes...

An experimental film with elements of animation. Somewhere in the USA, in a flat whose lodgers are absent, commercials are being recorded on the answering machine, while light reflexes from passing cars create moving patterns on the walls.

Thirty-something Julia seems to have it all: loving artist-parents, a talented composer-husband, and a successful career as an internationally recognized photographer. But soon the doctors are to diagnose her mother with cancer and the family will face the emotional turmoil of approaching death. Julia will suffer a professional setback, her marriage will face a crisis...

Atta wishes to became a ballet dancer. Once again she tries to be admitted to the Russian Ballet Academy in St. Petersbug. The entrance exams are extremly tough for her. Ałła must lenghten her legs because her proportions are not accurate. 52% is the perfect ratio of the legs' lenght to the height.

Two young girls arrive to Warsaw to fulfil their fondest dream and take part in a competition for models. Their experience teaches them something more than the ability to walk down the runway.

18-year old Thomas, the director's son, returns to the park where twelve years ago he rode his scooter, look at the death peacocks and asked some existential questions to elderly people sitting on the benches (‘Anything Can Happen'). His interlocutors are no longer there but the boy looks back to that summer's day and meets with himself as a child.

1953. At the small, closed station somewhere in the west of Poland, where Afonia and paralysed Rafał are recovering from the war, a Russian man, a former sports champion, arrives. He wants to discover secrets of Rafał, a former wrestler, which are hidden in his sketches. Afonia falls madly in love with him the stranger...

Kinga Choszcz, a Polish traveler, dies in Ghana from malaria at the age of 33. Her mother, Krystyna, a teacher from Gdańsk, travels to Africa. Guided by entries in her daughter's travel journal, she tries to find 11-year-old Malajka, whom Kinga bought out of slavery before she died.

Benchen Monastery Free Dental Clinic, established by Poles in 1998, offers free dental help for the Tibetan and Nepalese people. For seven years, Dr. Agata Turkiewicz has been spending her vacations in Katmandu, where from morning till evening she receives patients in a small room at the monastery. When the inhabitants find out about her arrival, they gather in front of her consulting room, some of them coming from the far-away mountains.

Acting legends of Polish cinema are caught during work on a film set of Before the Twilight (Jeszcze nie wieczór) directed by Jacek Bławut. During breaks between shoots, the camera focuses on Nina Andrycz, Roman Kłosowski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, and Irena Kwiatkowska