Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous director Gajda. The news is electrifying – everyone wants to be in the cast. As rehearsals begin, the students’ personalities, dreams and ambitions are revealed
Teen Mirek begins to develop a friendship with sexually precocious Violetta, a new neighbor, leading to tension with his friends at the same time that he has problems with his mother, who has a new boyfriend.
In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?
A girl who believes she is too fat is invited to the "Kingdom of Slimbuttlandia".
It's Friday morning at Panamerican Machinery Inc., a company specialising in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events shakes their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse.
A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep.
The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.
Mula lives with her husband, sick mother and daughter Nina in a countryside house. At the weekend before Nina’s First Holy Communion, her brother with his family come for a visit together with Kaja – Mula’s younger sister, who disappeared suddenly 6 years earlier. Kaja is Nina’s biological mother. Mula is afraid that unstable Kaja might want to take her daughter away.
Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.
The ponytail is a dumpster version of the Oedipus myth. Diana, a prostitute from Vienna, returns to the city. She has a trace, memory gaps, and milk started flowing from her breasts. Twenty-year-old orphan-outcast May suspects that she may be its author. Diana's return coincides with one made in the neighboring forest. May is arrested for being violent on police officer Max's wife.
Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.
A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.
The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center
Marta has just graduated from prestigious vocal studies in England. She comes home after three years of absence. Family and friends welcome her with a surprise party, in order to celebrate her homecoming and success. At the party, the girl meets her old love whom she once abandoned for realizing her own musical ambitions. Only she knows that her education abroad finished with a failure. Marta avoids confrontation with her relatives’ expectations and searches for safety in the old relationship.
When Ada returns home at dawn, she realizes that the breakup has already taken place, and her partner - although he still lives with her - is actually somewhere else.
The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.
