Nowe Horyzonty 2021

A story of fast growing up, which Alice - the main character does not want to decide on. It is a story about how the problem cuts you off from reality, because it is so hard that it is unreal. Together with the protagonist, we move into a fantasy world where it is beautiful and scary. As in a fairy tale, it is full of symbols and hidden meanings. But this is the only place where Alice deals with the problem in her own way. It's about abortion - a difficult topic for which there is no one answer, and probably none is right. It all depends on the man and his decisions. But can it be independent?

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.

Set in a surreal backdrop, we see victims' and predators' roles reversed. It shows the world we live in from the perspective of those who are most vulnerable.

The title "women's portrait" is painted from social expectations, stereotypes and cultural constructs. The heroine constantly has to play the roles imposed on her and adapt to the ideas of others. She finally decides to free herself from the limitations surrounding her. Will she manage to escape? The animated interpretation of the poem by Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska was painted with a red palette: the color of lipstick, rose petals and drops of blood. The heroine's feelings and emotions complement the images of nature, and the intense colors and rising music create an atmosphere of tension and anxiety.

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

"I'm here!" the main character would like to scream, but she is unable to even ask for a glass of water. She is also unable to get up because the disease chained her to bed and made her dependent on others. She hears everything that her relatives say about her condition. The everyday life of the elderly woman is documented by a fixed camera, directed straight at her face. The other characters: husband, daughter, grandchildren, doctor or priest are only a procession of legs appearing in the frame and sentences spoken in the background. A piercing story about loneliness in the face of death presented from the perspective of a dying woman - although she does not say a word.

While Weronika fights for her father's health, the world around her contradicts the rules of logic. Is it possible that her son is having an impact on his grandfather's health?

Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.

Maria is dead, but alive. She committed suicide, but remains in her living body for several days. It is not known how she killed herself. He is looking for the causes of his own death. He watches what the world looks like without her. Preparations for the funeral, post-mortem examination and disinfection in the apartment are underway. Maria is invited to a party for the dead. He gets into a row with a fortune teller who foretells the future only if someone has it. The family complains that Maria is alive since she died. They believe she lived badly and died badly. Maria wants to interrupt her own funeral. She begins to believe that she is dead, but feels different.

When Adam discovers letters his parents exchanged years ago, he takes the opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew, uncovering an extraordinary family secret.

The summer idyll in a thriving family vineyard is interrupted by an attack on one of the young seasonal workers - Yana. Only one person can confirm the victim's account: her friend Tosia. A teenager faces a difficult moral choice between justice and the protection of her loved ones. What will he choose - being aware that each path will have very serious, irreversible consequences?

There is nothing greater than having dinner with the family. Although it resembles a looped scenario that repeats itself endlessly.

After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able before.

A young journalist suffering from insomnia is commissioned to interview a famous artist. Feliks's metropolitan area is confronted with the tranquility of the countryside, just as he is confronted with his deepest fears. Initially, the professional arrangement loses its character, and a thread of understanding is established between Iga and Felix. Each of them in their own way tries to cope with the loss and survive their own small, private end of the world.

Fishmonger Polina drinks some tea given to her by a strange old woman that transforms her sleep into a fairy tale where she thinks she's the tsar's daughter.

In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.

Cross-section of life in a Corsican village where tradition is revered, observing the locals throughout one summer.