Piotr Dumała

A contemporary take on the Last Supper of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles with an unexpected twist. A drama based around a group of men seated at a table, moving to the rhythm of modern music for a string quartet.

Wolves reveal they are really humans in wolf costumes and proceed to eat each other.

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story.

Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love with the priest and soon decides to meet him again to confess her feeling to him.

A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based.

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men who, at one point, decide to approach them in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

A short film about a little black riding hood.

The story of a duel between a knight who, at a certain point, is fighting against himself.

A dream-like story of a sleeping man whose body parts live their own lives at night to return to him in the morning - all except one leg which has chosen freedom. Its owner as well as a crowd of homeless men chase the leg, but it grows feathers and flies away as a bird. A grotesque tale with a poetic ending and with interesting music by Janusz Hajdun.

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.

A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy.

"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.

Waldi and his three sisters live in an old villa outside the city, and their 100-year-old parents, who died a few years ago, live in the basement. The whole family enjoys shared breakfasts and warm air, so Waldi does not discover supernatural powers in himself. Then unexpected guests draw the family into a secret plan, forcing their deceased parents to launch their connections in the afterlife.

"It is the story of love and of how love can be destroyed by obsession. In our lives we are subject to two contradictory drives - the drive to be good and bad, the propensity to love and to hate" -Piotr Dumala, director

A short black comedy movie with a scent of horror. A distant planet somewhere in space inhabited by black Characters from fairy tales.

The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

A man with an enigmatic look arrives at a town called Ederly. "Ederly is not only the name of the town, it has a deeper meaning", the visitor is told.

A story about growing up, making decisions, and the daily cruelty of the world, based on an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka. An older servant seduces Karl Rossmann in his family home. To avoid scandal, Karl’s parents send him to America, where he is thrown into the vortex of a strange and ruthless world. He begins an endless journey in search of his place in an unknown country.

A pair of music-loving siblings go on different adventures in distant, mysterious lands, which help them understand matters big and small.