Free
admission, Polish snacks and beers will be available.
Janek,
a graphic designer from a big city, is summoned to the
opening of the last will of a complete stranger. Eager to
learn the history of his family, he and his younger sister
drive to a small town. Unexpectedly, Janek receives a
house by a lake, but he's not the only one who claims the
right to the property. Janek's acceptance sets off an
avalanche of disastrous events that throw his organised
life out of kilter.
Free
admission, Polish snacks and beers will be available.
In
the early 1990s, in crisis-stricken Poland, a
controversial TV star Jurek Owsiak responds to the plea of
two doctors. They desperately need money for medical
equipment. Owsiak starts a fundraiser and, consequently,
creates the largest charity organization in the country,
the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Over the next
two decades, the Orchestra grows stronger with Polish
democracy, mixing charity with rock music and a hippie
ethos. Przystanek Woodstock, an event that is intended to
be a free music festival for Orchestra volunteers, has
become the largest free festival in Europe, celebrating
the ideals of rock'n'roll.
"Phenomenon"
is an intimate portrait of Owsiak. We see him as he
transforms from a carefree hippie into a symbol of
charity, unaware that he will inadvertently place himself
in the centre of a brutal political conflict. In 2019,
Paweł Adamowicz, the president of Gdańsk, dies
during the annual final of the Great Orchestra of
Christmas Charity.
Utopian
vision based on music, love and friendship clashes with a
new era ruled by internet hate. The resulting tragedy is a
huge blow to the very heart of Owsiak's idealism. We
witness how he and his Orchestra cope with this challenge.
Nawoja,
a tormented witch, buries the head of a dead animal under
the barn, casting a curse on the perfect life of her
neighbor Bielakowa. Young Bielakowa organizes a rehearsal
of an all-female folk band in her house, even though she
feels that evil forces are creeping into her world. A
friendship develops between the band members. Before the
day is over, the girls will have to face the curse of
Nawoja. They meet again a few decades later for another
rehearsal - older, wiser, but still a tight-knit and
spirited group. An elderly woman is visited by the
memories of a friend she had in her youth. The two young
girls were inseparable, like one soul inhabiting two
bodies. Her memories, falling into place like pieces of a
puzzle, conjure a story of women's hard fates: failed
marriages, unkept promises, dashed hopes and dreams.
When
teenage trouble maker orphan Hela learns that her 5 years
old sister has been adopted, she decides to run away from
the reformatory with hope to find her sibling.
Incredible
story of Ina Benita, one of the most enigmatic figures of
Polish cinema of the 1930s. She was a star whose chances
of a great international career were buried by a war. For
years her fate was shrouded in mystery. Throughout the
post-war period the legend was that she died in the sewers
during the Warsaw Uprising. It was only in 2019 that a
young journalist, Marek Teler, discovered that she had
actually died in Pennsylvania in 1980s. What did she do
during the war? Why was she infamous? Why did she never
tell her American family who she had been before the war?
This documentary film attempts to unravel the amazing
story of this extraordinary actress.
