Szamota's Mistress

“The Man with a Doll” is a short film in the noir style, inspired by the novel by Bolesław Prus and its adaptation by Jerzy Wojciech Has. It tells the story of a lonely doll maker who one night wanders into a bar and meets Izabela — a singer who calls herself “The Doll.”

Sixteen years after an explosion on the Sun that made the Earth deteriorate, outcast soldier Stefan wakes up under carpenter Herman’s roof in the middle of nowhere.

Near future. The Red Sector, inhabited by social outcasts (including LGBT people), is visited by a man interested in buying a caravan. It soon turns out that he did not choose this place by chance.

Michel Kichka (born 1954 in Liège) is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator living in Jerusalem. In his graphic novel Second Generation, he addresses the impact the traumatization of his father, Holocaust survivor Henri Kichka (born 1926 in Brussels), had on him and his siblings. The publication forms the beginning of a long journey through the past into the future. The film follows father and son Kichka during two intensive years in Israel, Belgium, France with many interlocutors. In one of the most intense moments of the film, father and son go to the place where Henri was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. The 63-year-old Michel has never been there before, the 91-year-old Henri avoids this place, which for him is filled with the worst feelings ever, it manifests in him the second that was to change his life forever horrible.

Ups and downs in the love and professional life of Marta, a young woman from Krakow. Despite adversity and permanent bad luck Marta does not give up on her dreams of a bright future.