Remember the gentleness of Leon the Professional, who could kill in the blink of an eye, but cared so deeply about his plant and his child protegee? Human beings are so complex that they can comprise the most beautiful and caring aspects of life and at the same time within a minute turn most violent and start a massacre. If you wish to see a complex individual whose core of values is on both sides of the spectrum, who can love, hate, and disassociate himself from emotions, you'd love the protagonist of this film. We all crave a little bit of bloody action. We are all taking sides. But which side is the side of evil? You Were Never Really Here.
If you established a relationship with a pet, you know the feeling. The fondness, loyalty, instinctive protection, friendship and a lot of fun. Once your pet is dead, you might end up sobbing for weeks. Imagine a boy who went on a rescue mission to save his beloved protector, imagine an island occupied by dogs taken away from their owners. Finally, imagine a political system which doesn't allow for dogs, and a power which in an unscrupulous way can deprive its citizens of the friendship it had established centuries ago. With a dose of cynicism, great story-telling and canine animation, which blows your mind, Isle of Dogs.
Can you distinguish between an original and counterfeit? How can you tell the difference between a genuine work of art and a fake but produced by an equally brilliant artist? It takes knowledge, experience, years of practice. But if you are an unsurpassed professional in one field can it mean that you are naive in other aspects of life? Can you be a victim of another type of fraud? Or will you be sure that you take part in a genuine story blessed by true feelings? With a twist, a story about a man who devoted his life to art. The Best Offer. Enjoy.
A couple of hundreds of years ago the only way to learn about the world was to travel with the first explorers or listen to their stories after they managed to come back. Now it's enough to turn on the TV or watch traveling vlogs on YouTube to see the most distant places all over the world. But some circumstances don't allow you to see. What is more, they don't allow you to see at all, shedding the curtain on what you tend to take for granted from the moment of your birth. How to explore the terrifying reality of darkness, how to learn to feel and sense what is around instead of seeing it with one's own eyes? Finally, how to show the world of blind people by means of a film, which in itself is part of visual arts? Sometimes it's enough to Imagine. Enjoy.
Everything is well in the village life of its citizens. They have their masses to attend, family feuds to solve, christenings, communions, and funerals to celebrate, parties to dance for. There's a place for love, romance, and dreams. But what will be the reaction of the local community when you suddenly lose a face and will have the unprecedented face transplantation? Can you go back to normal? Will you be judged by prejudices and narrow-mindedness? Can blindly following a religion make people look like idiots in the developed world? A great parody of Polish national vices and one untold story of a mug. Enjoy.
Do you remember Second Life where you could completely change your looks, integrate with people all over the world and turn your boring existence into an exciting adventure where there are no limits? Remember the thrill of the Sims, which gave you endless possibilities of social interaction and rise to wealth? Finally, do you still feel the pang of fear mixed with adrenaline while completing a virtual race and reaching a virtual finish line? It is now a fact that we jump between two worlds, we meet online, we get married in real life, we order goods online to appreciate purchase in the real world. Fancy a reality of the future of both worlds: virtual and real, which developed significantly for the cyberspace, leaving the real world behind? Classic Spielberg's fun and quite a possible scenario for the future. Ready Player One.
You can plan more or less everything in life. The place of your habitation, the career path, let's say the number of children (there are still accidents, and these unplanned babies might be a blessing in disguise). Plans have little to do with emotions, and occasionally you will find yourself hit by the bug of love. It starts innocently to spread like a virus all over your body and leave you with memories, scars, and lessons from your past mistakes. Every person that you encounter is for something, every conversation has some meaning and there are moments which shape you and change you forever. When a guy meets a girl, a bitter-sweet truth what relationships are all about: (500) Days of Summer. Enjoy.
Nudity sells well. You can see it in music videos, flashing limbs, breasts, bottoms, and bellies. You can observe it in the fashion world, allowing nipples to be seen through the most transparent of materials, you can notice it in films, coloring your perception with artistic eroticism. You can also view it in porn and porn attracts millions of unsatisfied viewers. But can you use nudity for some higher good? Events inspired by the true story and real women uncovering their bodies for the sake of collecting money for cancer. Calendar Girls. Enjoy.
Sometimes you just know that some lifestyle is for you. Sometimes the place at the far end of the world pulls you with its unexplainable force, letting you know that your fate has been pre-written. You can fight with it, you can delude yourself that it's just a feeling, that's it's not meant to be. But fight with destiny is lost from the start. Sometimes you just know. You know what profession is fit for your predispositions, what place you will call home, what passion will accelerate your days and what love will turn your life upside down. And even if you are an untrained young beautiful woman who has never been in Africa, you soon realize that your place has been chosen by the higher force. An amazing story of a pioneer in animal observation and research, an extraordinary lifestyle, and a woman who made her dreams come true. Jane Goodall in Jane.
Very rarely the cinema has the courage to talk about a topic which is hidden behind the walls of social institutions, which is mentioned only when it comes to rationalizing abortion, which is shared between parents in the lonely lifetime of struggle and family support or total ignorance and fight with the world. Down syndrome. In the highly opinionated world of those who made this and that decision, we rarely focus on those who are already around us, and even though different, need to fit in the world and its norms. What if a man who has his personal struggles met a man who had a whole world of different struggles? What if two lonely people found each other in the hostile world of ignorance, hatred, family relations and heartbreak? A gem from the previous century, still adequate and true. The Eighth Day.