It is 1943. A 17-year-old girl, who is a Home Army courier, and an SS officer are travelling by train in the same compartment. The girl is on a secret mission. She is carrying a suitcase with some important documents for Jan Karski. The SS officer is enchanted by her and tries to flirt with the girl. Aware of the danger, the girl »
The film focuses on a little-known episode in the history of the 20th century: the Polish-Ukrainian alliance concluded by Marshal Józef Piłsudski and ataman Semen Petliura in 1920 in order to oppose Soviet Russia. In front of the camera, Jerzy Giedroyc, Norman Davies, Daniło Husar Struk, Arkadij Żukowski, Aleksander Kolańczuk, Wołodimir Serhijczuk, Wasyl Michalczuk, Gen. Stefan Tarnawski, Józef Hartowski and Tadeusz Olszański. »
It is a story of American soldiers and the U.S. stabilisation mission in Afghanistan. The film presents how the troops struggle with the demons of war and try to put their lives together after the return to their homeland. The documentary portrays Sergeant Corey Speck, who in September 2009 in a small Afghan village risked his life during a firefight. With the »
It is an inspiring story about three pianists preparing concerts of Chopin music in places associated with conflict and unimaginable suffering: Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, the border between South and North Korea, and the city center of Beirut. These sites need music because it restores dreams and triggers emotions. Will Chopin’s music have the power to bring healing? »
In 1943 Stanisława Leszczyńska was arrested by the Gestapo as a result of helping Łódź getto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanisława worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labours not losing even one child. Her name – as »
Tadeusz Kościuszko is the first hero of contemporary Poland and Lithuania. The film shows his biography in a dynamic arch between the tension of the times in which he lived and the character of the protagonist. The viewer will find in this story an attempt to answer the question asked by generations of Central Europeans – how to survive in the "bloody »
