Elias(12) and his family are coming to Czechia to settle down after years of nomadic lifestyle. Instead of an idyllic return, they find Mom’s old dad dying hatefully in his dirty flat. Mom collapses exhausted and Dad takes her to the hospital. The old man dies overnight and when Dad returns, there is police already […]

9-year-old Sara travels from Poland to Belgium, hidden in the luggage compartment of the bus. When she is caught and taken to the Center for Immigrants, it turns out that she is looking for her mother (Joanna), who emigrated for work three years earlier and broke contact by giving her away to an orphanage. A […]

Marina (34) is a Ukrainian woman, who lives in Paris and writes research about Soviet mono-industry towns, the settlements built for the needs of one big factory. Under the pressure of residence denial in France she goes to Ukraine to finish her book and to fulfill her obligations to the publishing house. She has a […]

Several people go on about their daily business. An artist prepares for an important performance, a policeman restores order, somewhere else a family eats dinner together. But a seemingly minor accident will disrupt their lives forever. When a musician absorbed by his career takes his teenage daughter for a driving lesson, a stray dog runs […]

Warsaw. Dalia, Nadim, and five-month-old Jasmine are Syrians. They await a call from Robert – he promised to get them a gun. The transaction is made: now they have a gun. They drive to a bakery. They have to wait longer than expected to add their daughter’s name to the birthday cake. We discover that […]

It is 1935. The former cinema and theater star Marija Leiko goes to the Soviet Union to take over the care of her recently born granddaughter, whose mother has died in childbirth. The way back to Latvia leads through Moscow where her former Latvian friends, former revolutionaries of 1905, now commissars of the Stalinist regime, talk her into staying in […]

Karolina vel Miss Kebab is a Polish girl who recently arrived in England and started working at a high school in a rough area of Leeds. She struggles to adapt, as her experience as a teacher in Poland has not prepared her for the challenges she faces – poverty, parental neglect, drug and alcohol use, […]

An ecological black comedy. Humanity is reduced to the last city left on Earth, absurdly overpopulated. It is entirely surrounded by a large forest reaching out as far as the eye can see, inhabited by a mysterious creature that feeds off human sacrifices. In order to maintain population balance, The City conveys grotesquely strict rules. Once […]

ERNA ELTZNER (15) is one of the seven children in a wealthy German factory family living in turn-of-the-century Wrocław/Breslau. While the father is often away on business, the mother and the housekeepers take care of the education of the children, whose life flows smoothly and without major hitches. That is until one evening, during a […]

Peter, a precocious boy of 9, loves nothing more than to spend his summer breaks his grandparents’ house. Unfortunately, soon after his arrival, Peter notices something suspicious: Grandpa Peter goes to bed too early, easily tires, and talks less than usual. Grandpa Peter senses Peter’s unease and prepares a riddle in rhyme, hoping it will […]

In a happy marriage, no one will hear you scream. Ewa and Igor are a young married couple. They are settling into their new „dream” apartment. When Ewa finds out she is pregnant, she hides it from her husband and secretly decides to have an abortion. This is forbidden in Poland, so she confides in […]

Nicole​ is an exceptionally beautiful 19-year old girl. Since her ​father​ is an alcoholic, she is the one taking care of the low-income household and her younger sister ​Ema​. Just finishing high-school, Nicole plans on continuing at a university. After a particularly rough night, Welfare Office visits their household and threatens to take Ema away. […]