Less of a Stranger

During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.

After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.

It’s hard to dislike Mila; at 30, she carries her insecurities close, overanalyses everything, and is much kinder to others than to herself. When her friend cancels their trip at the last minute, Mila swallows her fear and sets off alone for a pole dance camp. Among sculpted dancers, scant costumes, and sky-high platforms, she feels awkward, alien, and instantly out of place.

A young acting student is drawn into a psychedelic television show where he must fight for the love of his life. Faced with visions of moral decay, reality and fiction blur, leading him to a dark conclusion that challenges his perception of the world.

Drew, a Vietnamese immigrant in Warsaw, spends his days working in his mother’s grocery shop, constrained by her rigid expectations. Behind closed doors, he leads a secret life as a nail artist, crafting intricate designs and breaking cultural taboos. When he meets Bo, a nail artist and owner of a nearby beauty salon, she recognises his talent and spurs him into action.

Four friends on the threshold of adulthood spend the summer day together in the absence of their parents. Ordinary at first glance, with time, it begins to lose its seemingly carefree. It turns out to be a joint attempt to say something that everyone senses, but that nobody wants to talk about openly.

Two high school students form an intense connection as they navigate the challenges of discovering and expressing their truest selves.

It's the last week of school in a small polish town's junior high school. Waiting for the final party, several students pass the time at a city pool, as if anticipating the emotional whirlwind they are about to experience. The action takes place somewhere in Poland, where ‘LGBT free zones’ are a reality in 2020. It’s a story about young people, their problems and romantic endeavours in the era of the Internet and social apps, when creating genuine relationships is unnaturally difficult.

Mei, a daughter of immigrants living in Poland, dreams of becoming a pianist. Trying to combine the colliding cultures she lives in she takes a step that can’t be undone. Starting adolescence she must choose between her family and her own happiness.

In a bourgeois home, an elderly man named Zbigniew is nearing the end of his life. To provide companionship and break the monotony of his decline, his wife brings a mysterious young man into their house. The stranger's presence acts as a catalyst during a stifling summer night. A strong emotional connection develops between the dying man and the visitor. This encounter allows Zbigniew to confront feelings he has kept quiet throughout his life. Aware of his limited time, he chooses this moment to reveal a deeply held secret about his personal identity that he had hidden for decades. This revelation impacts the couple's relationship, turning the night into a ritual of reflection, farewells, and final reconciliation with his true self.

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.

Pola is at the peak of popularity - at the age of only 22, she fills the halls at her concerts and is very successful in the music industry. One day, after one of her performances, the girl under the influence of alcohol causes a car accident. To hush up the case, the star's father, and at the same time the star's manager, places her in an addiction therapy and treatment center, where the singer is forced to do community service. Soon there he meets Borys - a charismatic instructor, famous for his unconventional methods of work.

A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Chaim, are their age and are the sons of a respected pharmacist who lived in a nearby town before the war. They were the only survivors of the anti-Jewish pogrom led by the Germans in the nearby forest. In spite of the deadly threat, Janek and Staszek decide to hide the boys and keep it a secret.

„Broys” Filip and Bartek try to cope with adulthood. An unexpected family tragedy drastically changes the brothers’ worlds - it feels as if they came to a standstill with their whole lives ahead of them.

Krysia, a teenage girl, leaves her home for the first time in weeks. At a party, she runs into Majka. The two girls slip away and set off on a journey that proceeds at a dizzying pace.

Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.

The life of Zuzia, whose dad works on the railway, changes massively when Lampo, an extraordinary travelling dog, joins the family. The remarkable shepherd dog, whose train trips are an internet sensation, immediately becomes the best friend of the girl suffering from a heart condition.

A seasoned detective teams up with a novice cop to solve the mysterious murder of a world-class bone marrow transplant specialist.

After 25 years of marriage, Basia and Grzegorz’s passion has faded into predictable routine. Hoping to reignite their spark, Basia books a weekend at an exclusive spa hotel and arms herself with a “Sex for the Reluctant” guide, only to have their plans shaken when Grzegorz’s confident boss Maks and his seductive partner Domi arrive, turning their getaway into a weekend of unexpected tension and temptation. Will they rediscover each other and remember what it truly means to be together?

Fed up with pandemics, quarantines and news about ecological disasters, worried about their own uncertain future and the fate of the world, a group of high school students are invited by Kamil, a millionaire's son, to a party at his father's seaside residance.