A penal gymnastics session is underway during a roll call in a concentration camp. A brutal voice shouts furious commands: "nieder - auf!" (down – up!). One of the prisoners will not obey the commands, another one will almost survive
Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
Two shades of paint are pitted against each other in a bullfight that spills self-reflexively from the page into the animator’s studio
Polish animated short film that uses unconventional film techniques such as cut-out, drawing, filming miscible fluids and scratched images. Also uses non-camera technique such as drawing directly on film. The film is a humorous lecture on the internal structure of a dachshund. Parodying popular lectures at the same time, it contains a message about the superiority of the products of living organisms' techniques and calls for respect for the environment.
A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.
Tomek Milkowski is an comic-books' illustrator. But his chef doesn't like his drawings. He tells Tomek to make up something really cool, if the boy doesn't want to loose his job. The illustrator has a guest. It's a bird Tri-Tri from stories about Mr. Kleks. Tomek takes the book and decides to illustrate it as a comic book.
It is still one of the most popular Polish animated films. Servants prepare the table for a luxurious dinner party in a beautiful palace. Guests are gathering slowly. Suddenly they are surprised by an unexpected change of roles between the eater and the one who is eaten.
Kajetan, a dog and famous detective, and his assistant, Cat Makawity, try to solve the mystery of the director's disappearance and the problems of other creatures from the neighbourhood. Only the Secret of Marabou’s Code can stop Chameleon, a dangerous criminal.
A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
The princes and princesses, according to the will of their father, King Fafala IV, try to defeat Captain Palemon, the king of the pirates. Will the bravery of the royal sons or the grace of the royal daughters defeat the famous pirate?
It is a philosophical parable about a man at the crossroads. He divides himself in two, as he cannot decide on the one way only. Each half follows its own path. When they meet again, they do not fit each other any longer. The journey changed them irreversibly.
The sixth and last animation by Stefan Schabenbeck before emigrating to Germany in the early seventies. Alien life form seen from the other side of the telescope. A robot arrives on an unknown planet, whose task is to get to know and try to colonize a new world.
Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-female evening in space with some pre-war music hits becomes possible.
The story of a duel between a knight who, at a certain point, is fighting against himself.
A bloody duel between two knights takes place at a medieval court, which becomes the beginning of a cruel war. Soon it turns out that the battlefield was a chessboard, and the participants of the battle are chess figures.
An allegory of the hopeless relationship between a prisoner and his jailer, representing the dependence of mankind upon authoritarianism.
