A poetic snapshot of the life of a couple who just live side by side and have ceased to pay attention to each other. An unexpected incident disturbs their routine and brings the couple closer again.

A devil is jinxed during a magic show but manages to escape and begins to play some vicious pranks.

This highly original animated documentary reconstructs the true (!) story of an individual who gets caught up in the wheels of the murderous European bureaucratic machine. The director illuminates the dark side of the system in her second feature-length production using various animation techniques: hand drawn images, photo collages, computer trickery, plasticine figures and occasional slightly modified stock footage. One particularly distinctive feature: the main protagonist narrates and reconstructs his own life and death similar to Joe Gillis (William Holden) in Billy Wilder’s legendary feature film SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950). When Daniel Claudiu Crulic (voiced by actor Vlad Ivanov) begins his tale, he has in fact already passed away. The thirty three year old Romanian died in 2008 in a Polish prison while on hunger strike, having been accused of a crime he couldn’t possibly have committed and then dismissed by the bureaucratic machine as worthless.
This sophisticated montage, combining imagery and audio, lends this ballad of the decay of humanity and the omnipotence of boundless greed a delightful rhythm and tremendous pull, from which emerges an in equal measure unsettling and harrowing warning: a Europe, in which public authorities and civil servants prefer to sidestep responsibilities and in which the individual doesn't count for anything, makes for a life not worth living.

– Peter Claus, Katalog Cottbus

Two lonely persons in a room who perk up when a bird they can feed comes flying to their window. But one day the bird fails to appear. Life-sized human puppets were constructed for this film.

Like most of his peers, the protagonist began by collecting stamps, drink labels and stickers. Presently his collection consists of a couple hundred thousand objects and he became known as the Emperor of Collectors. Thanks to imagination the toys from his collection are not merely inanimate objects. A documentary film mixed with animation which portrays an unusual collection of toys.

This film is considered to be the first Polish puppet animation after WWII. Production began in 1939 but because of the war could not be completed until 1947. It’s a fairytale from the court of King Krakus.

This film takes us along into the day-to-day life of Sister Christina, a young orthodox nun. She prays by candlelight, mows the lawn in front of the convent, or removes old screws from dismantled wooden windows. She paints icons, celebrates New Year’s Eve with her fellow nuns. In interviews she talks about her decision for God and her initial difficulties in the convent. When we accompany Christina – whose worldly name is Sonia – on a visit to her parents, we begin to have an idea what is haunting Sonia and her family: traumas from the Soviet age, war, camps, exile, socialist education.
The film enables us to understand why a young woman would choose the strict life of a convent, leave her family, and turn to God for refuge. Expanding the traditional biographical focus on one individual, the director shows how Soviet history has become deeply engrained in the lives of these people and left a heritage whose shadow looms even over subsequent generations. Sonia’s mother says that human instincts were broken by the authorities. She has even lost her daughter. But Sonia has found her way. In the final scene we see her as Sister Christina, happily ringing the bells of the church tower.
– Antje Stamer

In May 2010, after a record rainfall, a flash flood broke the embankments of the Vistula near Wilkow. The only surviving family mementos were destroyed by water, mud and mold. What was left were only some fragments of compositions, shreds of portraits and silhouettes hard to identify. This film is a desperate attempt to keep memories, reconstruct people and events of the past. An impression on the transitory nature of memory, the inevitability of fading and the destructive force of elements.

A simple black-and-white metaphor of human existence. A man wanders through an apparently endless convoluted labyrinth of stairs and climbs countless steps before he reaches his surprising goal.

The story of a flowershop which magically comes alive when the owner has left. Spools of wire unroll and shape themselves into figures of men and women. The ladies dress up in colourful petals and the ball begins.

Somewhere between life and death a thrilling chess match takes place. The stake is high - a gateway to the world of living. And the judge is someone you would definitely not like to meet...

When the piano lid is closed and the lights go out, the lampshades are convinced they can make the joint hop all by themselves. And they’re right! A harmonious composition of music and movement.

A discarded sack in the attic reveals its evil side. All objects in the house are in great danger now. "The sack" is the first Polish film in the Czech tradition of object animation.

Two siblings watched by their grandfather sit at the table and struggle to finish their soup. The children scoop the soup up reluctantly, but what will happen when they leave?