My God...what is going on in the Polish film industry? This is the second year in a row we've seen some of the most fresh and startling films in the world coming to us from there. High production values through and through, great conceptual realisation and powerhouse stories are all on show. Really excellent stuff with many lessons in the short form to be learned.

Reenactment
Marcin Strauchold
Poland/2025/24:00mins

Wehrmacht soldiers, Polish partisans, medieval knights, peasants and monks... Pride in the heroes, nostalgia for the old days, resentments of all kinds... The colourful world of historical reenactment is as fascinating for the main character as it is not fully understandable in its logic. Therefore, at the urging of a more experienced colleague, she decides to introduce new, her own rules to it. It turns out that she will have to face her own weaknesses and the weight of centuries of history.

Repose
Katarzyna Iskra
Poland/2025/20:00

A metropolitan woman on a train, lost in her thoughts, is forced by an intense experience to break out of her bubble and connect with another passenger, despite seemingly having nothing in common.

Stepmother
Adam Porębowicz
Poland/2025/30:00mins

Zuza starts a new relationship with Kuba, and his six-year-old son, Franek, becomes part of her life. She forms a unique bond with the boy, but trouble arises when her relationship with Kuba begins to fall apart.

Four Days of Mateusz Wilczek
Aleksandra Maciuszek
Poland/2025/29:55mins

Mateusz (33), newly employed in the Polish Border Guard, takes part in his first operation to catch migrants camping in a border forest and push them back to the other side of the border. Among those being pushed is a family with children who claim to have lost important belongings. After a night spent trying to forget, Mateusz returns to the site and finds the foreigners’ bag containing, among other items, a phone number. He calls it—something he immediately regrets. Over the following days, spent with his family and mischievous children, Mateusz struggles with what to do about the migrants' belongings and the knowledge he now carries. Especially since messages start arriving from the number he called…

A story about trauma, guilt, and the nature of forgetting in the borderland territories.