Agnieszka Mandat

Void Spaces (2024)

Therapy session opens memories from five different places and times. Traumatic experiences come back in expressive and suggestive images. Slowly, chaos becomes calmer and changes into peace. The film is a story about loss, thanks to which, an opportunity t ...

Święta inaczej (2022)

Fed up with forced cheer, twelve-dish feasts and predictable gifts, one person rejects the usual Christmas ritual and flees to the unknown, finally doing what they truly desire instead of what they must. This holiday, nothing will be the same: the world tu ...

The Passage (2021)

A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria's own death reaches her with delay. ...

Spoor (2017)

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her. ...

Jeziorak (2014)

A provincial police unit raids a forest moonshine operation but is ambushed, leaving one officer wounded and the bootlegger at large, while simultaneously a young woman's body is found drifting on a lake. Pregnant Sub-Inspector Iza Dereń juggles these int ...

The Fifth Season of the Year (2012)

To fulfil a last wish, an elegant widow accepts a ride from a modest retiree that will take them through mourning, music and new memories. ...

Women's Day (2012)

Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wa ...

Krzysztof (2010)

Never Say Never (2009)

Thirty-year-old Ama is a brilliant, ice-cold headhunter for global corporations whose polished single life in Warsaw conceals her deep longing to become a mother. When she breaks her own professional code to go on a date with Marek, the handsome Silicon Va ...

How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008)

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transpo ...

Warsaw Dark (2008)

Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a pr ...

Afera Mięsna (2007)

A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality of the 1960s, or "our little stability." Robert Meller and Janusz Dymek's documentary drama concerns the famous 1964 meat scandal, in which three death sente ...

The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006)

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable t ...

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005)

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58. ...

Happy Man (2000)

The story of three people and their complicated emotional relationship. A mother and her 30-year-old son live in a poor neighborhood in a big city. She is having trouble finding a job, he is having trouble finding his way in modern realities. The mother's ...

On, ona, oni (1983)

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce. ...

Childish Questions (1981)

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him. ...