Shameless

Antek, a polite yet secretive teenager from a wealthy family, invites a drug dealer, Kuba, on whom he has a crush, to his villa under the pretext of another drug transaction. However, Kuba's father and brother suspect that Antek is reselling the drugs he buys from them and stealing their clients, so they give Kuba the task of investigating Antek, but the evening does not go as planned for either teenager.

Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.

The film is inspired by the real events – the story of Kati Andreevoj and Daria Chultsova – the two journalists from TV Belsat, an independent station broadcasting from Poland and their arrest by the Belarusian police in Minsk.

A short tale of a 14 year old boy who is emotionally and sexually maturing.

‘I have decided to die this year,’ - jokes Basia, who does not look like someone who turned 80. She fulfils herself in her role of a grandmother, mother and sister as well as on stage. The camera captures her preparations to the performance of her life.

In Kyiv, the war still seems inconceivable, but the pandemic forces a mother and her daughter to spend the lockdown in their shared apartment. The mother is a piano teacher who keeps giving lessons on the phone, on her kitchen table, with the same passion and perfectionism. Her daughter has an art studio at the other end of the apartment, yet she has swapped her paintbrushes for a camera. Ptitsa: a bird, in Russian, like those who brave winter on snow-covered windowsills.

First days of the War Alina, one of the film’s protagonists, disabled after leg surgery, spends alone with the cat, in her home in a small city near Kyiv. She looks for the ways to escape. The bridges are destroyed. Alina manages to find the only road useful and get away with the cat to her parents, caught by the War in their cottage in the nearby village. For the first weeks of the invasion everyone tries to live normally. The mother conducts online lessons, the father takes care of the cats and all the other animals in the neighborhood left behind, Alina records current events with her camera. The sounds of the approaching front force the family to alter their perspective. The way one sees and feels changes. When the neighbors leave their homes, Alina and her parents, under the cover of the night, hurry to pack. However, at the last moment, the father decides to stay.

The couple, surprised by the news of the pregnancy, decides to immortalize this strange time in the form of a film. The phone that they pass to each other watches their everyday life, becomes a witness and provocateur of questions and doubts. She experiences extreme emotions, to which it is sometimes embarrassing to admit. He is consistently renovating the apartment and feels that there is no room for weakness.

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.