Content from Lodz Film School

Andrzej is a quiet and secretive chair tester with incredible power that helps him in his work work in a small factory. He secretly has a crush on the secretary, and his life is being made difficult by the chief chair designer. The situation changes when the plant is to produce a new model of the chair.

A found footage documentary about one of the first female directing students at the Film School in Łódź – Stefania Świeca.

“Close your eyes and look at your fears each for yourself. everyone is allowed to be. Any fear of a person coming from another space. Everyone is afraid of some person who lacks something and wants to come from somewhere." Five types on which the heroes meet their most common ailments and obsessions. Body, religion, politics, eco-activism, shamanism.

One morning, a girl tries on a pair of new pants, but they won’t zip up. In the mirror she sees herself as the fattest piglet the world has ever seen. To change this, she decides to go on a strict diet. Hunger quickly turns her into a kind of zombie, stumbling blindly to the fridge that seems to haunt her at night. In one of those moments, the Angel of the United Bitches of Slimbuttlandia appears, carrying a royal invitation to visit the kingdom and take part in a mysterious royal ceremony.

A college student is taken by surprise when her father mysteriously shows up asking her to move back home.

A famous writer suspects that his wife is cheating on him and tries to find out who her lover is.

Agata has just gone through a painful breakup and, digging through the dusty corners of her memory and video archives, she desperately tries to piece together the reasons for her romantic failure. If our memory is a creation, then what is film?

Daniel has just been released from prison and is trying to make a new life for himself. Between taking care of his alcoholic mother and finding a job, he might be able to find some happiness and normalcy in a new relationship.

Fragmented and chaotic. Reality in Królikiewicz's works is usually incoherent, in a state of disintegration, permanently damaged, painfully marked by history. The moral and cultural crisis is clearly visible. You can even see it… by the swimming pool.

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.

This year has not been kind to strawberries. At the beginning of April it snowed. Strawberries began to bloom on the 21st. The first fruit of the year was eaten by a snail, the second by Adam, and the third appeared simultaneously with hundreds of others. The rest is a story whose heroes are not Peter and Paul, although their interference in fate makes Julia's first kiss taste especially sweet.

Klaudia, surrounded by a critical mother, obsessively helps others. Przemek worships Poland and hates stupid people. So everyone. Donatello loves mud turtles, the Actor only himself. Maja lives and chills as Netflix commanded. Everyone takes part in the therapeutic stay under the care of Remek. And they create the saddest comedy of the year.

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.

The Implementation of the new security law in 2020 marked a major historical shift for the people of Hong Kong. This 2-year process brought on the reality which was not expected to have materialized until 2046. This harsh, unexpected acceleration fueled feelings of anxiety and distress. The fear of prosecution mixed with the impulse for self-censorship, the desire to leave wrestled with a sense of loss. Room 404 is an essayistic response to the documentary Room 525 shot by the same artists during the art residency in Hong Kong back in 2019 while the social unrest was growing.

The life of an elderly person is cheerless. Whatever monotony and weariness fail to kill will be annihilated by illness. But is that really the case? Bronka and Zygfryd, with their last ounce of strength, decide to salvage their shared memories and even the tiniest fragment of the love that once connected them.

A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.

Lea is preparing for her big Jewish wedding, which she doesn't really want to attend. She prefers meeting random guys on dating apps. Her latest tryst ends in disaster, and she, possessed by the ghost of her lover, must fight to regain control of her life.

The dawn light is cut by the sounds of an axe. The breath of Helka, yesterday's bride, mingles for the last time with the breaths of her family. Helka bids farewell to her patrimony and walks through the village to her husband's house.

Jasiek and Olga photograph waterfalls, while Hela and Zuza take cheeky portraits of the Pope. Together, the four friends enjoy cycling trips, admiring the views, bathing in streams, and passing around a joint. It sounds like the perfect recipe for summer lightheartedness—until the instincts suppressed by relationship routines awaken.