Na odsiecz Wiedniowi

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi 1983

1

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

1983

Space Sailors

Space Sailors 2010

1

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?

2010

Her Return

Her Return 1975

7.20

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices.

1975

Rat Pack

Rat Pack 1986

7.20

Szczurolap is a powerful analogy to the aims of an authoritarian society to destroy dissidents.

1986

Computers

Computers 1967

1

How does a computer work? It’s easy! This educational film vividly explains the principles of the binary system, which is the underlying operating concept for digital machines.

1967

Ant Trails

Ant Trails 1956

1

Educational documentary that illustrates the living conditions and importance of ants in environmental ecosystems.

1956

Grandmamauntsistercat

Grandmamauntsistercat 2024

7.00

Film created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, telling the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandist tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a locus of auto-fictional memories, with their scientific register shifted towards a treatment of images themselves as specimens.

2024

Tumor Witkacego

Tumor Witkacego 1985

1

The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Witkacy is one of the outstanding European artists of the early twentieth century. Author of many short stories and plays translated into eighteen languages. Author of his own philosophical system, art theorist, painter of Formist paintings and portraits, a man who left behind a legend of a unique personality.

1985

The Independent Peasant

The Independent Peasant 1982

1

A film portrait of Władysław Szypuła, a farmer from the village of Sołonka in the Rzeszów region, who is a man with a specific philosophy of life. Here he is, at the end of the 20th century, cultivating the land solely with his own muscles, with self-made tools, “independent” of the general economic and market climate. Although his life passes in toil and hardship, he is full of inner peace and kindness to others.

1982

Georg Philipp Telemann’s Travels from Żary to Pszczyna

Georg Philipp Telemann’s Travels from Żary to Pszczyna 1974

1

It is a film journey tracing the footsteps of a German composer, Georg Philip Telemann, who was appointed a chapel master at the court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz at Żary where he became fascinated with Polish folk music. The most memorable scene shows the stages of a hot-air balloon ascent. They could be shot thanks to a special camera and an external viewfinder attached to a wide-angle lens.

1974

Pictures from the World of Moulds

Pictures from the World of Moulds 1960

1

Using Aspergillus niger mold, we observe culture breeding and the formation of spores. Microscope images show the structure and method of mold reproduction, the properties of which are used in the production of citric acid.

1960

A Nice Day

A Nice Day 1988

1

Among Jan Jakub Kolski’s short films, critics assign special significance to “Ładny dzień / A Nice Day”, which tells the story of two elderly people who spend their time taking care of their old horse.

1988