Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?

The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.

A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź.

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetitious labor.

Among Jan Jakub Kolski’s short films, critics assign special significance to “Ładny dzień / A Nice Day”, which tells the story of two elderly people who spend their time taking care of their old horse.

A critique of consumerist life.

The last performance of the Grand Circus in the 1978 season. The camera meticulously captures important details, gestures, situations and emotions on the faces of circus artists.

The young speedway rider wants to represent the country in the world championship. However, the coaches choose another player.

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

A documentary about ice hockey from the point of view of the hockey puck.

The documentary dedicated to Andrzej Munk, a leading creator of the Polish Film School, was created based on unique archival materials. They made up a story about a man immersed in history, his artistic evolution and the emotions accompanying this process.

A film about the psychology and physiology of sex. It addresses the issue of sexual initiation among young people and analyzes teenagers' knowledge on the subject. A pair of young protagonists experiencing their first feelings and first sexual encounter are accompanied by a commentator—sexologist Dr. Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz.

Szulkin stages a morality play about a sinful woman’s encounter with the devil, set to the Polish ballad of the same name and imbued with folkloric imagery.

Tomek is searching for a lost dog.

One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers becomes the target of their revenge.

The film, which was shot in the summer of 1981, was not edited until 1988. A triptych addressing the problems of the Polish countryside, depicting the fate of peasants in post-war Poland, from the decree on reform through all the turning points: 1956, 1970, and finally May 12, 1981—the day "Solidarność Wiejska" (Rural Solidarity) was registered.

A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

Maintained in the convention of a daydream, or rather a psychedelic vision, an impression on the works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Individual sequences of the film depict fragments of Witkacy's works, and the whole seems to be a commentary on the sentence: "I remember that night, when boundless terror took over the innermost fibers of my brain, and all I could hear was that terrible babble in the gaping maw of the unknown, that something blind, turning its blade toward itself."