Michał Jankowski

Two centuries after his death, Frédéric Chopin returns to Warsaw as a spectre summoned by his own music. In the concert hall, he listens to the performance of his own works, and every note triggers successive layers of memory – of lost love, artistic triumphs and a lonely death far from his homeland.

Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.

The first and—paradoxically—the final part of the triptych. The city, which is its subject, grows not only in space but, most importantly, in time. With all consequences.

The chicken lost its head, the cow’s guts are out in the open and blood is spurting all over the screen. The protagonist works at a production line where automated processes have made her approach her job and its effects in a cool-headed emotionless way. Each day, she makes chicken for dinner, but one day, a piece of meat starts staring at her in a strange way. A grotesque animation about what ends up on our plates.

A man and a woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get close to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious. Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. Bodies are formed like clay, embracing each other up to the limits of impossibility. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The film is the third part of the triptych Impossible Figures and other stories.

"Sleepincord" raises the issue of dream. Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety.

A crazy comedy about the residents of a small estate of mining familoks Fytel. The characters lead a rather quiet life. They pass their time sipping beer and reminiscing about how things used to be. The idyllic peace is disturbed by the appearance of a "scorcher" in Fytel. In the background there is love, and a tangle of various amusing events that will eventually unite several lonely hearts.