Bartosz M. Kowalski presents a psychological thriller in his latest film, Playground. The story starts out innocently enough on the last day of school before summer. Small town girl Gabrysia, played by Michalina Świstuń in her first film role, has a crush on a fellow classmate and decides that she can’t keep it to herself anymore. She manages to get him to meet her in secret, but what was supposed to be a declaration of love turns into something wholly unexpected. The film has been nominated for awards at Camerimage and the London Film Festival, and Kowalski won the prize for Best Debut Director at the Polish Film Festival.
A deeply touching documentary about the lives of the people who are forced to live in a junkyard in Moscow. The Svalka is the biggest wasteland in Europe and lies just thirteen miles from the Kremlin. Inside the guarded junkyard...
Andrzej Wajda’s last feature is a biopic about Władysław Strzemiński, the famous Polish avant-garde painter. As much as it’s a celebration of the brilliant work one man made, it also sheds light on the difficulties of Strzemiński’s...
Loosely based on the serial killer (so-called Vampire of Kraków) who tormented Poland in the 1960s, Koszałka’s directorial debut is more of a thriller than biopic, exploring the evil tendencies of people and how they come to be the...
