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“The Landscape is a film on moving, being held and being placed in places and in between places. There is no explanation on the story behind it. There is no deeper thought or symbolism behind it. Like driving, listening to the music and looking at the landscape. All passes by”. – KG

“The Instrument is an ode to listening to music as is and thinking of nothing at all. Not thinking at all. Absolutely nothing”. – KG

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too, which is when 9‑year‑old Tom and his friends play hide‑and‑seek or attack each other with a drone. Then there are moments when you have to hide and you only get 15 seconds. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, lose a life if you’re too slow. The film is a documentary observation of life in closed‑off settlements located in a military zone less than 5 kilometres from the Gaza strip.

Christmas Eve morning arrives – the first in Filemon's life. Final preparations for the evening dinner are underway. Boniface tells his friend about the custom of giving each other "stars" – meaning presents. Filemon takes this literally and decides to give Boniface a star for Christmas.

A man hops on a bus unaware of what is about to happen.

Parodist deformation of the famous painting by Manet Luncheon on the Grass.

In a polish countryside lives a woman who's really close to nature. During the night, she performs rituals like burning roses or cleansing with a hen's egg.

“Impressions” provides an image of conscious corporeality – an image that was rare in the art of Poland under Communism. The work is a joyful spontaneous story about female subjectivity, a film self-portrait of the artist.

The demons of extreme nationalism regularly recur in Poland. Likewise, a growing level of internal social and political polarization. For the last few years the celebrations of the Independence Day ended up in violent demonstrations, the devastation of Warsaw and brutal clashes between the extreme nationalist elements with the police and leftist activists. Internal conflicts and political tensions had been growing in the days preceding the parliamentary elections. Protests, demonstrations and manifestations. Tensions were growing. On the 25th of October 2015 the elections took place. The effects of the elections, resulting in democratic crisis, are all widely commented not only in Poland.

A walking area, work in the tailor’s workshop, a modest meal, an everyday dose of medications taken under the control of medical personnel, an extremely crowded cell – it is a day like every day. No needless words. A moving story of Russian prisoners who have been put into a psychiatric hospital to serve their sentences. It was filmed in Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Syczowce (Smolensk Oblast).