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Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away....

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather...

One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from...

An important official gives up the lactation of the morning press. Wanting to make the cleaning lady's work easier, he lifts his legs and suddenly rises upwards together with his chair. He floats among the clouds, meets strange figures, observes vari...

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in....

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the in...

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples....

Mysterious creatures that have landed on the ground in a flying saucer, encouraging the people they meet to undergo experimental research in exchange for gaining youth and immortality....

Satire branding unhealthy interest in the lives of others and gossip....

A film adaptation of a series of short stories by Zofia Nalkowska, describing the fate of people who survived Nazi persecution. The stories report the events with calm and restraint. Nalkowska collected material for the series while working at the Ma...

A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy....

An aging actor and prompter engage in conversation....

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a techn...

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people...

Mr Potato lives in typical, Grandma's, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, going to buy beer. Why should you lose time if you ca...

A film that uses animation as a tool to spastify the various stages of cinema development. It is a play with form and juggling of genres, with Zbigniew Rybczynski collaborating. The theme of this work can be considered the transience and inevitabilit...

Philosophical grotesque. During an anatomy lesson, a butterfly sits on the page of a butterfly atlas and is immediately "classified" on its pages by the teacher. The teacher begins to cover the graphic lines and turns into a drawing in the anatomy at...

Once upon a time, there wa a kitty named Gatsby. There was a second kitty named D. Gatsby was young, handsome, and everyone loved him. D was jealous of Gatsby... and hated how everyone fawned over cute little Gatsby. So one day, D tricked Gatsby and ...

A little boy and a dog discover an old cannon in the sand. The boy imagines past battles....

The title character is a professor looking to replace humans with cyborgs. His supremely creepy assistant Traumer, strikingly played by Majewski regular Andrzej Rausz, is one such creation. Professor H. intends to transpose Traumer’s brain with that ...