Realized by Polanski as his final project at the State Film School in Lodz, Poland. The short film, told mostly in flashback, portrays a washroom attendant who reminisces about her former life: her first love, her newborn child and the war.
The vicissitudes of the main character, Witek, are told in three different ways, according to how his destiny could have been: three different lives, three different attitudes towards reality and history, three different politics choices and moral consequences: political activist, militant, "peacefull man" dealing with scientific research and not politics. The provocatory en...
Kieslowski's diploma film tells about some young girls, workers at one of Lodzi's large textile factories, protesting against the break-up of a band of old style mandolin players. The film shines a peculiar and enchanting light on the daily life in an unusual and decadent city.
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
An elderly dollmaker works in his shop by the light of an oil-lamp.
Two men, a sledge, a barren winter landscape and the eternal struggle for existence and power.
During a battle in Saragossa, a French officer finds a large book with strange drawings that capture his attention. While he is looking at it, an enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him. The second officer recognize its author as his own grandfather. The book and the movie tell about the life of Alfonso Van Worden, who was a captain in the...
One man gets stabbed while he is sleeping in his bed. Polanski's first short movie.
The continuous thirty-two hours working shift of some doctors at the Emergency. The doctors are fighting against tiredness and the technical lacks of the hospital.
Routine lavorativa di un’impresa di pompe funebri, alternata alle immagini di gente che passa nella strada di fronte. Il film si chiude in una corsia d'ospedale, dove i neonati sono contrassegnati ciascuno con il proprio numero d’ordine.
Each episodes is dedicated to a ballerina, from the youngest one, a girl who starts to dance, to the oldest, the teacher of the school.
A man walks down the exterior staircase of some building. He passes a small window and sees a young woman standing at a washbasin, drying her hair with a towel that covers her face. Fearing to be seen, the man starts down the stairs, only to return to the window afterwards. He again looks in the same window and this time he sees a man brushing his teeth who gives him an uns...
Jòsef, the main character, visits the sanatorium where his parents, he himself as a child, the emperor Francesco Giuseppe and other characters lived. The allegoric entrance to the building is the entrance to the world of fantasy, a dreamlike and labyrinthic dimension. In this strange sanatorium, time has stopped, or better, time has gone backwards. Here, Jòsef can explore th...
Interviews made by Kieslowski to seventy-nine Polish persons of different ages. The three questions they have to answer are: When were you born? What do you do? What do you desire the most and who is the most important person in your life?
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica} Looking for a miracle, Angelina lands at a healing center in the Peruvian Amazon where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she bonds with Ar...
Uno straordinario progetto cinematografico del 2012 che unisce 5 registi israeliani e 3 palestinesi in un film di 7 cortometraggi che raccontano in modo diverso l’acqua, ma soprattutto la difficile convivenza dei due popoli. Tra documentario e fiction, dramma e grottesco. Il film ha aperto la Settimana della Critica alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2012. Una giovan...
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
Mr. De Waal leads a quiet life: married, one son and a shop. During a routine control at the hospital, he is asked to stay overnight to continue the exams the day after. This situation takes him by surprise and during the night, he will turn from sane to insane.
Johan is thirty-five years old. He is a baker and live in a small village where everybody knows everything about everybody. Johan can't dance, but play domino and can make an egg stand. His friend Paul suggests him to publish a notice on the newspaper to find a pen friend. A foreign woman answers him, starting an exchange of letters in which Johan doesn't reveal his true ide...
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her. The famous play by August Strindberg adapted for the screen and stage in multiple countries and languages, gets an Anglophone interpretation from the legendary Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.