WORK
FAITHBREAKER
Drama | 1h 16m | 2022
Anna comes back home after years away to take care of her mother in last months of her life. She left the village as a child and now she comes back as a young adult and meets her childhood love, Alko. To her parents this encounter is an echo of old mistakes. None of them knows that they will have to confront their past. None of them knows that today they are going to forgive.
Starring
Best Dramatic Feature of Byron Bay IFF
2022
Official selection of
Off Camera
2022
Broadcasted by
Canal +
2023-2024
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
Theatre play | 1h 20m | 2019
Could you name a hundred things that make life wonderful? A thousand? How about a million? When he was 7, a boy’s mother attempted suicide. In response, he started a list of things to live for. As he grows up, the list takes on a life of its own. From “Ice Cream” (#1 on the list) to “the Alphabet” (#999,997), Every Brilliant Thing shines a hilarious and compassionate light on dark corners of the human condition. A play about depression, resilience, and the lengths we will go to for those we love—told in collaboration with the audience.
Produced by Polonia Theatre. Premiere took place 14th December 2019.
Play Writen by
Duncan Macmillan and Johny Donahoe
Starring
Rafał Mohr
MOTHER EARTH
Drama | 30m | 2014
​"Mother Earth" is the story of a conflict of a father's expectations with the power and sensitivity of his son. Maciek - the main protagonist of the film - is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and - as everyone in the family - be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards an old, neglected orchard - the only memory of his mother and discovers his supernatural abilities.
Starring
Awarded at
Locarno IFF
2015
29 Festival awards
Screened at 60 IFF
2014-2016
Broadcasted by
Ale Kino+ TV channel
2015
NORMAL PEOPLE
Drama | 25m | 2011
Daniel, who has just been released from prison, is trying to make a new life for himself. It's not easy - he has to take care of his mother and find a job. He dreams of a new 'normality'.
Starring
Premiered at
Krakow IFF
2010
17 Festival awards
including Camerimage
2010-2012
Broadcasted by
Kino Polska TV channel
2011
CHARCOAL BURNERS
Documentary | 15m | 2010
​Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life.
Cinematography by
Malte Rosenfeld
Official selection of
DOK Leipzig
2010
40 Festival awards
Screened at 120 IFF
2010-2012
Broadcasted by
Planete+ TV channel
2011