Maja Ostaszewska

The Doll (2026)

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate. ...

Chopin, a Sonata in Paris (2025)

He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music. ...

Colors of Evil: Red (2024)

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth. ...

Green Border (2023)

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian ...

The In-Laws 2 (2023)

Would-be bride and groom Weronika and Łukasz decide to give themselves a second chance and invite their family to the wedding and reception in a seaside town. Among the invited guests are Wanda and Tadeusz – with their dog, Mirelka, and also a divorcee, ...

Shielding the Flame (2023)

Broad Peak (2022)

After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started. ...

The In-Laws (2021)

Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? ...

Magnesium (2021)

A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters. ...

Never Gonna Snow Again (2021)

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and somethi ...

Kill It and Leave This Town (2020)

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. ...

Nightwalk (2020)

It is night in Warsaw. Two very different homes. In one, a father watches sports lying on the sofa, expecting the son to do the same. In another apartment, a wealthy-looking mother sits at the table to dine with her daughter, completely different from her. ...

(Nie)znajomi (2019)

A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone... ...

7 Emotions (2018)

Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to ret ...

Pitbull: Tough Women (2016)

Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia. ...

Pitbull: Public Orders (2016)

Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group. ...

Damaged (2015)

Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he's got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her famil ...

Rybka Canero (2015)

A family crime comedy by Juliusz Machulski, written especially for the Television Theater. "Fish canero" is a bit of a comedy of errors, a bit of a study of our recent behavior, and a bit of a criminal investigation full of riddles. Funny and scary at the ...

A Grain of Truth (2015)

A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to "start a new life" in picturesque town in south­east Poland ­ Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in pro ...

Jack Strong (2014)

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire n ...

Dom na końcu drogi (2013)

A lonely woman is walking a path in the woods. Soon she arrives at a house where she is warmly welcomed. The woman observes that her arrival caused a storm in family's life. ...

In the Name of... (2013)

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past. ...

Entanglement (2011)

A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death. ...

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghe ...

Katyn (2007)

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government offi ...

Loneliness in the Net (2006)

When an unhappily married woman meets a renowned scientist online, the two start to fall for each other as they exchange romantic emails. ...

Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

Changes (2003)

Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations. ...

The Pianist (2002)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays beh ...

Where Eskimos Live (2002)

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight t ...

Egoiści (2000)

A look at the 1990s generation of cynical and selfish young Varsovians who managed to achieve financial success. But at what cost? ...

Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca (2000)

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is secretly abducted from the Primate's Palace and sent into solitary confinement at Stoczek Warmiński, accompanied by Father Stanisław, recently freed from Rawicz, and Sister Leonia, coerced from Grudziądz, forming an unlikel ...

I'm Looking at You, Mary (2000)

Two young people share their lives and homes for two years. ...

Przystań (1997)

Karolina works in an elementary school in the province. She passively waits for a great love. Life seems empty and colorless to her. Karolina's friend Jola, who decides to take fate into her own hands, has a different attitude to reality. This does not alw ...

Schindler's List (1993)

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. ...