filmPOLSKA 2024: Night of Shorts

In the organizer's words:

Pazur / The Claw
doc, dir: Marta Nowak, PL 2023, 17 min, OmeU
A scripted documentary? A portrait of an artist? A political essay? The amusing and moving story of a man who rebels against the construction of a chicken farm and enlists Ukrainian refugees in the process is all of the above.

Moja siostra / Sister of Mine
doc, dir: Mariusz Rusiński, PL 2023, 30 min, OmeU
The rehab center is Zuzia's last chance to escape her drug addiction. Her familytries tosupport her, but she also has to question herself in a rollercoaster of doubt and hope.

Sheep Out
Anima, D: Zofia Klamka, PL 2023, 8 min, oT
A young woman lives a lonely life in the same old big city hamster wheel of work, leisure, personal hygiene and sleep. But then the image of a sheep jolts her out of her lethargy. A wild chase with a comic book look and punk soundtrack begins.

Warszawa, Holandia / Warsaw, Holland
Feature film, D: Ming-Wei Chiang, PL 2023, 18 min, OmeU
In the sun-drenched but dirty streets and backyards of Łódź-Bałuty, a young man ekes out a living with monotonous odd jobs. Can a friendship be a bright spot in his bleak everyday life?

Zapach Ziemi / Smell of the Ground
Anima, D: Olivia Rosa, PL 2023 year, 8 min, oT
Sharp-edged time-lapse still lifes in black and white show us an abandoned earth in which traces of civilization become part of the landscape in their motionlessness. Only in the close-up do we discover the most important thing: life.

Zima
Anima, D: Tomasz Popakul & Kasumi Ozeki, PL 2023, 27 min, OmeU
Pious Anka lives in a village by the sea with harsh customs. Where humans and animals live in a fragile symbiosis, she reacts to the smallest hairline cracks in this microcosm. In dreamlike sequences, sparingly colored images meet congenial sounds.