9th IN THE PALACE ISFF, 2011

A woman called D, seeks shelter from a tormenting past in a sanatorium in the middle of the mountains. The obsession she runs away from is death. But death has taken for her an unusual shape: her own hair.

Tables screwed to the floor. One hour, that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes even a month. Meeting room in one of Polish jails. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of one of the mothers, her solitude and constant waiting.

Julia's life takes place in the bath tub. Drop by drop she will build up the courage to change the order of things.

Tony, a 45-year-old dishwasher, finds herself with no money after she doesn't get her salary. When faced with despondency, a mother does whatever it takes to make her child happy.

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

An older woman sits before a telephone in an empty house. Her daughters have flown the nest. As she prepares to phone them, their memory is brought back to life