Movies: Studio Miniatur Filmowych

In a simple but powerful way, director Ryszard Czekala presents the horror that happened in Nazi concentration camps: prisoners’ dread, humiliation and lost humanity. Its directness and style is sometimes interpreted as a response to the trend of all...

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek....

A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule....

Short animation by Alina Maliszewska about two lovers trying to kill themselves...

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A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs....

Polish animated short film that uses unconventional film techniques such as cut-out, drawing, filming miscible fluids and scratched images. Also uses non-camera technique such as drawing directly on film. The film is a humorous lecture on the interna...

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A lonely bachelor blushes at a look from a woman spotted on the street. He is really randy when he sees other women on the street. The more confident he is, the more attractive he is....

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Enacting the story of a hunt with wild but precise gestures, the Polish animator Witold Giersz’s The Horse (award-winning at the Krakow Film Festival for “its exceptionally interesting animation technique”) explodes with color and brings to life the ...

The story of a duel between a knight who, at a certain point, is fighting against himself....

Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. One...

Two shades of paint are pitted against each other in a bullfight that spills self-reflexively from the page into the animator’s studio...

A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spi...

Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-...

A tenement house in Poznan as a background of social changes and political events in the history of Poland in the 20th century. Shop signs, languages, banners and wall inscriptions change - the tenement is still the same....

From cowboys to cannons, diving to racing, perhaps nothing can stop this stuntman...

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