Sebastian Pawlak

Michael and Eve lead a steady life subordinated to a good job and a second pregnancy. Kasia and Bartek are facing serious financial problems....

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the...

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses...

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is...

The 1940s. Leon and his sons work on the Vistula River as sandblasters. One day the men fish a woman and her small daughter out of the river. It...

The film shows the gray reality of a Polish unemployed slacker still living (despite 30 on the neck) "on mommy's pot". Just what to do when one day...

Piotr is a psychiatrist. He is on night duty when a boy is brought to his ward. It is Kamil, the son he hasn't seen in years. The boy disappears from...

A year in the lives of Mateusz and Agata - a theatre director and an actress fascinated with New Age, respectively. Ideas of new spirituality and an...

According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as...

A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's...

When, despite being in your thirties, you are still living with your parents. When you're short of cash, your girlfriends aren't getting along, and...

At their beloved grandfather’s funeral wake, the family learns his lifelong lottery numbers just won, but the winning ticket lies in his jacket...

Egocentric stage actor Marcin has to face the unexpected breakdown of a long-term relationship. During three different performances, fantasy mixes...

Marlena (62) and Tomasz (42), hidden away from the world in a small seaside town, have been in a happy relationship for many years. Their intricately...

A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more...

When Aśka's child is born, she does not expect that she will have to face difficult challenges. She has to decide whether to raise a son or a...

Julita and Stacy have parted ways, but now the girls meet again at the stud farm where Julita works with her mother. Stacy comes from abroad for an...

A collection of portraits presenting characters who try to face their own numbness in internal conversations.

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish...

The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a gay doctor, and their attempts to escape from their...

Thirty year old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets a...

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year...

Father and son on a journey in the forest. Their trip through nature is an act of initiation for them both. What looks innocent and safe turns out to...

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe,...

Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder....

In a series of linked stories, women navigate and challenge a dystopian future ruled by sexual duty, emotional repression, and patriarchal dominance.

Based on a true story. Two brothers, Artur (22) and Marcin (12), murder their own mother. The film starts with the boys' arrest and then takes us...

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the...

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman...

The distinction between sanctioned killing and plain murder gets blurred for a War-on-Terror veteran.

The story of nineteen-year-old Tomasz, a first-year environmental engineering student. He recently moved to a large city and is struggling to find...

Thirteen-year-old Antek is grieving over his Mum’s death and seeking a way to contact her. He comes across an internet advert for the GHOSTPHONE, a...