Poland

Wojciech Has’s masterpiece of sixties counterculture is a surreal odyssey across time and space.

This winning romantic comedy from Poland sees a couple embark on a winter hike in one last effort to save their failing relationship.

Walerian Borowczyk’s miniature animated masterpiece is a haunting allegory of totalitarian repression.

Walerian Borowczyk directs his own wife in this chilling adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant short story.

Borowczyk deploys reverse stop-motion animation in this inventively destructive short.

A lonely teen spies on his older neighbour in this study of voyeurism and isolation from the great Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning road movie about a novice nun exploring her family’s secret past in post-war Poland.

Two film extras playing corpses form an unlikely bond in Michał Toczek’s charming Polish short.

Andrzej Wajda’s epic period piece captures the ambition and cruelty at the dark heart of Poland’s industrial revolution.

This minor-key masterpiece from Tadeusz Konwicki captures the distress and hope of Poland’s post-war generation.

A teenage boy battles against indoctrination in Wojciech Marczewski’s parable of political and sexual fascination.

Racial tensions build in small-town Poland in Damian Kocur’s gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines debut.

Agnieszka Holland adapts Olga Tokarczuk for this propulsive eco-thriller set in Poland’s mountainous borderlands.

Young lovers are torn apart by social pressures and the chaos of war in this Wojciech Has melodrama.

Andrzej Munk’s scathing satire of military heroism is one of Poland’s most potent anti-war films.