Barbara Sass

Aktorka

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

An Immoral Story

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.

Debutante

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.

The Saragossa Manuscript

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Caged

Władysław is declared a hero after controlling panic in a bank archive fire.

Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

In the Name of the Devil

Nunnery. Group of nuns led by Mother Superior is trying to protect the sinful, corrupt world. Soon, a charismatic priest Francis will take a lead. He will open up new concept of God. ...

A Girl and the Pigeons

Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to his budding relationship.

Aktorka

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

An Immoral Story

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.

Debutante

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.

The Saragossa Manuscript

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Caged

Władysław is declared a hero after controlling panic in a bank archive fire.

Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

In the Name of the Devil

Nunnery. Group of nuns led by Mother Superior is trying to protect the sinful, corrupt world. Soon, a charismatic priest Francis will take a lead. He will open up new concept of God. ...

A Girl and the Pigeons

Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to his budding relationship.

Wejście w nurt

Anna is a teacher and her husband Marek is an engineer. They both face moral dilemmas at work: Marek's boss wants him to help get rid of a renowned engineer from their company; Anna refuses to support the false accusation of her student.

Sycylia

An interventionist documentary describing the damage done by mining wells to historic landmarks in Bytom.

Hands Up!

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Saragossa

Making-of documentary made for Polish television on The Saragossa Manuscript

Trzy kroki po ziemi

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

Apple Tree of Paradise

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

Samson

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.

The Scream

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

Without Love

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.

Nothing But Fear

TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?

The Spider Women

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...

No More Divorces

Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.

The Girls of Nowolipki

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

Pictures from Life

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.

Father

A young boy must go to school with his father.

The Woodpecker

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.