Teoniki Rożynek

A protective woman has raised her young niece in the countryside as her own daughter. When her sister suddenly returns, it triggers a sense that she may be back to reclaim her offspring or to implement even more ominous plans.

Julia, a music producer, travels from Berlin to spend a late-summer weekend with her new friend Anna on a remote Finnish island. They met at a yoga retreat in Estonia and quickly bonded. Anna lives there with her Swedish husband JP, surrounded by wild scenery and a beautifully restored sauna that reminds her of childhood summers with her late grandmother.

Ada and Ewa are two young schoolteachers in love who discover that their apartment building is scheduled for demolition. Unwilling to return to their families, and lacking both savings and clear prospects, they embark on a chaotic quest for a new home. Their journey through the city transforms into an absurd odyssey, introducing them to various fellow citizens navigating the housing crisis. Amidst this systemic uncertainty, they fight to preserve both their sense of humor and their relationship.

Cyprian, 10 years old orphan, raised by his beloved grandmother, dreams to become a real hero. Suddenly his grandmother dies and a threat of an orphanage hangs over Cyprian. Now he has to confront with the real loss and realize what it means to be a hero in the face of suffering.

Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law in Italy. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matters. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only thinking about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.

Reeling from a sudden breakup, a woman stranded in a ballgown embarks on an impulsive desert drive, finding healing and self-discovery through unexpected connections along the way.

Bartek learns that his teenage son is the perpetrator of a murder at school. The distraught boy runs to his dad, so the man hides out with him in his fiancée's flat. As he tries to get everything under control, he grows up to confront the truth about his son and himself as a father.

A "neo-giallo" short film about a need to fulfill hidden desires that bursts the characters world from the inside.