Peter & the Wolf

Peter & the Wolf 2006

6.66

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

2006

Tango

Tango 1981

7.40

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.

1981

Danny Boy

Danny Boy 2010

6.20

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

2010

Ambulance

Ambulance 1961

6.00

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 incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

1961

Where Are You, Louise?

Where Are You, Louise? 1968

6.00

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.

1968

Moomins and the Comet Chase

Moomins and the Comet Chase 2010

5.50

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 the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.

2010

Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem

Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem 1989

8.00

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.

1989

Walls Have Ears

Walls Have Ears 2008

1

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

2008

The Friend

The Friend 1965

5.00

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.

1965

The Stairs

The Stairs 1969

6.90

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.

1969

Castaway

Castaway 1970

1

Animated short film

1970

Walls

Walls 1988

5.80

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

1988

First Pavilion

First Pavilion 1968

6.00

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.

1968

Soup

Soup 1975

4.70

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

1975

Maska

Maska 2010

7.00

"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 technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.

2010