polski
3.12.2025, 18:00
Centrum im. Ludwika Zamenhofa, 19 Warszawska St
admission free
Rajskie ptaki
Birds of Paradise
director: Tomek Ducki
music: Jean-Marc Petsas
Poland 2025, 8’30”
Bird droppings. To most, a nuisance. But for a remarkable flock of flightless birds, they are the foundation of life itself. There is a delicate harmony in their hidden world – until one day when a mysterious object washes up on shore. What begins as curiosity sparks a profound shift, leading the flock into a new era of cultural and technological change. Once happy with simplicity, the birds now face the price of progress.
Basen albo śmierć złotej rybki
The Pool or Death of a Goldfish
director: Daria Kopiec
music: Natalia Czekała
Poland 2025, 13’40”
It’s a story about a possessive relationship between a mother and her daughter. The main character, through unexpressed anger and rebellion against her mother, transforms into a titular goldfish. Unspoken words, gestures, and repressed childhood emotions manifest in harsh treatment of both herself and others.
Drogi Leo Sokolosky
Dear Leo Sokolosky
director: Weronika Szyma
music: Chryste Panie (Wojtek Kurek, Michał Małota, Michał Stawarz, Aleksander Żurowski)
Poland 2024, 8’
This poetic dialogue unfolds between a young girl and her deceased great-grandfather, intertwining images from a German town where he was sent to a work camp during World War II with a delicate narrative as the girl pens a letter. The past seamlessly blends with the present, and flashes of memory mix with moments of oblivion. Leo Sokolosky, the letter’s intended recipient, is the ghost of her great-grandfather’s friend from the camp, serving as a mystical link between her world and his.
Autokar
director: Sylwia Szkiłądź
music: Barbara Drazkov
Poland, Belgium, France 2024, 17’
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves Poland and moves to Belgium. Migration, seen from a child’s perspective, becomes a story about growing up, identity, and the search for one’s place in a new world.
Rozdarcia
Tears
director: Paulina Ziółkowska
music: Michal Krojczok
Poland, Germany 2025, 9’
A film about the impossibility of making a decision. A world filled with possibilities and a lost woman who may not want to choose at all.
Na krzywe łby
The Crooked Heads
director: Jakub Krzyszpin
music: Maria Dakszewicz
Poland 2025, 8’25”
A forgotten Polish neighborhood drowns in the haze of coal mine smoke. A young man shaves his head, dons a tracksuit, and faces his brother’s shadow and the weight of his past.
Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?
Can you hear me?
director: Anastazja Naumenko
music: Flavien Berger
Poland 2024, 15’
Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mom how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?
Death
director: Julia Medoń
music: Kevin Hartnell
Poland 2025, 4’40”
An animated adaptation of Joe Brainard’s poem about death.
Dzisiaj przyśni mi się woda
Tonight I’ll Dream About Water
director: Adrianna Matwiejczuk
Poland, Estonia 2025, 14’
A young swimmer’s life changes drastically when she begins to suspect that what she loves most is actually her greatest threat. A dark tale of what lies beneath the surface.
Bar Krokiet Freestyle
Bar Croquette Freestyle
director: Maria Dakszewicz
music: Maria Dakszewicz
Poland 2025, 5’15”
In great need of sensation, a Croquette Bar’s patron questions the palatability of her own life’s everyday-ity after a screening of a Bollywood film.
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