Klara Jagovit: 2019

Sleepy Hollow

Every murder raises questions concerning the nature of the crime and the motif. But if there is a sequence of murders, these questions seem to be even more nagging. What if the legends are true and there is a demon who can kill innocent souls in the blink of an eye? Who can you trust and who keeps secrets, desperately hiding a darker...

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Harry Potter series

adventure 08:56:00

It was over twenty years ago when one book revolutionized the lives of young all over the world. Soon there were others; longer, darker, and more serious volumes caught our attention - the readers hungry for the exciting world of magic. Harry Potter has become the most famous wizard in the world. Equally famous were all his friends, enemies, actors portraying the main...

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Marriage Story

Adam Driver 01:26:00

We all are aware of it now. More relationships break up than last until the time when our wrinkled bodies and grey hair announce the arrival of old age. But once you have been in a relationship for some time it's not that easy to separate, even though you definitely grew apart. And if there are children that connect both of you it...

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Eat Pray Love/Under the Tuscan Sun

divorce 12:27:00

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In the beginning, everybody has good intentions, high hopes for the future, the certainty of success. But some of us fail in the middle of the way, with a smaller or bigger bang. Some of us don't have to fail, there are others who do this for us, making our marriages break up, our whole lives turn upside down, and the sense of...

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Life Itself

accident 10:04:00

Do you believe in coincidences? Do we meet each other for a reason? Is there anything like fate, predestined and prewritten for each and everyone, which makes it impossible to change it and act on your own? Or can we be masters of our own destiny? Do tragedies happen for a reason? Can heartbreaking losses be the ground for happiness in the future?...

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Girl

accident 10:25:00

You're really lucky when from day one everything was clear. Your sex, your body, your sexual orientation. But many of us question it every single day, which in the clouds of doubts, makes us even more human. But how difficult is the journey of self-acceptance in a competitive female environment when you were born a boy? What challenges face parents and families of...

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Boże Ciało/ Corpus Christi

accident 10:07:00

Aren't you tired of the stories of pedophilia, corruption, and sexual exploitation? We all know that in any organization, especially based on abstinence and complete devotion to religion, some nasty scandals will pop up now and again. But aren't we all somehow connected to religion? Weren't we all praying to God in times of trouble? Don't we need some sense of community and...

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Lady Jane/ The King

death 10:58:00

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Power. At times it's a well-deserved prize for years-long process and achievements. At other times it's the outcome of circumstances, sudden deaths, unexpected coincidences, and hidden decisions. It comes out of the blue and to the young, it might be equally burdensome and unwanted. Can wisdom and good intentions make you a great ruler? Can other people's decisions evoke true love and true...

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

artificial intelligence 11:21:00

Is it possible to create a machine that will perform everything that a living human being is able to? Can it replace us, be everything we are, with the amazement of our skills, character traits, fears, and flaws? Can it become a part of our everyday lives, our reality, our family? What if we equip it with the ability to love, desire, and...

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Joker

crime 10:02:00

Behind every evil, there's a reason. Behind every broken man is a multitude of cracks, little offenses, smaller and bigger wounds. But what hides behind a maniac who has no mercy for anyone? What triggers the bullets of unscrupulous outbursts of madness and grotesque revenge? Why should you pay attention to how you treat people, as you never know how they would react?...

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Another Day of Life

Africa 05:00:00

There are events in everybody's professional life that change. Which push towards better, bolder, braver. Which build the understanding of the world and compassion. Stumbling blocks, adventures breaking the limits. Personal tragedies only understood by participants. For Ryszard Kapuściński it was the witnessing of the Angolan Civil War, people met there and terrible sights of desperate opposition, national hatred, bravery, and division. This...

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Beast

crime 03:21:00

Is one sin committed in youth a guarantee that your life will be paved with sins? Can you be kept caged for years and suppress your real desires and emotions? Or will you break free and let yourself fly in the cloud of love and endorphins? Is everyone you meet by chance to be trusted? Will your family and friends disable you from...

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

crime 12:39:00

Isn't it frustrating when there's somebody who has everything you don't? It seems to be a mischevious giggle of fate when you are born in poverty, with no chances for education and career and there are those who, having it all, squander their parents' wealth, cheat their beautiful woman, and waste their life away. Nothing is yet lost. Having a bit of luck...

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Shutter Island

island 05:30:00

In a lunatic asylum, nothing is what it seems to be. Friends could be your enemies, dangerous patients turn out to be your support and most reliable doctors end up being your biggest threat. Can you trust those who cannot rely on themselves? Are you to be trusted? Can you solve a mystery among dangerous maniacs and criminals? Can you deal with your...

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A Rainy Day in New York

acting 09:43:00

Life puts us in situations which measure the strength of our relationships. What a better way to test yourself than to change the safe environment and try something new to break a routine? Maybe this way you will realize that your bonds bind you to the wrong people and the causes of your frustrations are in reality more understanding and closer to heart....

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Big Eyes

abuse 03:08:00

There are few things you cannot buy, among them youth, love, and talent. The last one is rare, it happens once in hundreds of thousands. You cannot learn it, attend courses of creativity, singing classes, painting workshops. You can delude yourself that you will surpass your masters, but only those who have it have a chance for a career. The world, however, is...

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Parasite

black comedy 11:08:00

You can laugh at the unfairness of the world, but it's no laughing matter. The gap between the rich and the poor widens at the galloping pace of increasing world population. Some have everything: expensive education possibilities, private tutors, career prospects, luxury houses, fashion items, and servants to carry out the most mundane chores. Others have literally nothing with no food to put...

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A Walk to Remember/ The Fault in Our Stars/ Five Feet Apart

cancer 06:49:00

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Not everyone is about to make it, reach the finish of ripe old age. There are some who will never celebrate the fall's birthdays surrounded by grandchildren and aging friends. The world is unfair in giving richness and life in years. Some have many, others have very few. There is something heartbreaking in capturing young love which has no chances in the world...

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The Dead Don't Die

Adam Driver 10:29:00

What a better way to get away from the routine of a small monotonous town where everybody knows who's who and every corner has been depressingly the same for years? What if the shift of the globe makes something go wrong and changes the order of things? Can the dead suddenly rise from their graves and disturb the overwhelming peace? Small-town people have...

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

action 08:46:00

Almost all of us fell for it. The magic of Hollywood, the purchase of the illusion, the dream. I used to kiss farewell the screen of a TV set after each memorable film ended, hoping to see it again, a five-year-old's tribute to the hard work of fantasy makers. But the film is not just the 2-hour story cut by advertisements for us...

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Ghost

career 03:45:00

The lifeline on the palm of your hand can have its breaks, forks or sudden dead ends. You can never tell whether your life will be long or surprisingly short due to disease, accident, or tragedy. Sudden death is something which no one wishes for themselves, but it happens despite the wishful thinking and hopes for the best. Do you believe in life...

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Stonehearst Asylum

escape 03:03:00

The treatment of mental diseases varied throughout centuries, from remotely built asylums to psychoanalysis visits on the couch and multiple drug prescriptions. The past bears a heavy burden of responsibility for inhumane methods and suffering patients. It's difficult to control the crowd of people who can be a threat not only to themselves but to others, let alone keep them safe in one...

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Across the Universe/ Yesterday

accident 10:53:00

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The band which sold the biggest number of records in the history of humankind is undoubtedly The Beatles. It inspired millions, billions even, to invest in love, friendship, and peace. It showed that true love lasts despite racial differences and assassinations, it taught us about lasting careers and universal truths which are still adequate despite the passing of time. No wonder that music...

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Ma Ma

cancer 11:02:00

Every day thousands of women receive an unwanted diagnosis. From the problems of weight gain, the lack of money, relationship break-down or job loss, they are hit with something which requires all their strength and resistance. They begin the fight for lives, surrounded by medical equipment, constant tests, and doctor's visits. Statistics chase them unscrupulously reminding that not all are going to make...

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Loving Vincent

Aidan Turner 11:46:00

Aren't we fascinated with the people whose priceless gift changed our culture for centuries? It's rare to find an artist, whose style is known to literally everybody despite the lack of interest in fine arts and no classical education. What was so special about the man who created one of the most famous paintings in the history of the world? What was the...

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Midsommar

culture&tradition 09:40:00

Imagine a distant Swedish village, which in full light celebrates one of the most famous Scandinavian traditions. Imagine white robes, friendly people, the beauty and cleanliness of the Swedish north. Picture life without technology, immune to the threats of the contemporary world, unspoiled by the sins of the modern lifestyle. To this ad a group of fascinated youths who have their own issues...

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Baby Driver

action 05:09:00

One man's talents are easily used for big purposes. Head-hunters seek for hidden treasures to make them join the forces of big corporations. Huge labels look for young designers to replace the aging ones or those who died leaving the empires behind. Food and clothes companies use the faces of successful sportsmen and artists to market their products and earn billions. These people...

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

boarding school 09:58:00

Everybody has his or her path toward self-acceptance. One day you happily fit in the society's norm, just as everybody else finishing schools, passing exams, partying and worrying about your acne. The next day you realize that you might be a part of a minority not necessarily tolerated by your family circle and friends. Worse yet, at times the whole world is against...

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The Wife

career 10:12:00

Behind every strong man stands a woman of double strength. It is her role to take care of the family and her husband's success. She stands politely in the shadow when her partner gets standing ovations, receives awards, and puts a mark behind his name in the pages of history. Doesn't she have the right to be a little bit frustrated, being omitted...

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Sense and Sensibility

Alan Rickman 03:48:00

We have crushes on various people. Some traits, either of the character or appearance we find attractive and others don't fit in our scenario for a happy relationship. But is being overly too romantic good for this hard materialistic world and doesn't it lead to way too many broken hearts? On the other hand, can you consciously resign from love on the grounds...

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Queen of Hearts/Dronningen

abuse 10:39:00

It's impossible to resist the temptation of love. Everybody wants to be loved and admired, and everybody craves physical fulfillment. The question of the latter comes down to consent. What if your profession is to defend victims of domestic and sexual abuse and your personal life is filled with tragic experiences you want to overcome and choices which make you a villain? What...

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#Female Pleasure

Africa 09:38:00

For a lot of men, the fact that women can derive pleasure from sex is unthinkable. This is why, due to the fear of humiliation, insecurity, and loss of their face and possessions, they closed the beautiful sex in the box of child-rearing, meals-preparing, and thoughtless. Throughout the continents, cultures, and traditions, we, women, have been mistreated and discriminated. Let's pose some questions....

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French Women/Sous les jupes des filles

accident 11:16:00

In Jane Austen's times the fate of a woman was pretty direct: either to get married to a man with a suitable income or "enjoy" the pleasures of spinsterhood, being a burden for parents. Nowadays options are pretty infinite. You can be a business mogul, a wife, and a mother, a lover, or someone who finally discovered their true desires and has the...

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Tolkien

education 10:58:00

You can be besotted by many things: by a woman, who charms your worn heart and clicks all the right buttons, by music or a voice, which drive you to happiness, tears or madness. You can also become besotted with a story, which we all have done at some point in our lives. But being subjected to the fantasy that comprises generations of...

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Hellboy

fathers&sons 11:01:00

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It's fun to have all sorts of heroes. Heroes with whom we can identify, heroes whom we admire and aspire to become, and heroes with whom in these uncertain times we can feel secure. But heroism has different sides. Sometimes having super extra powers doesn't mean that you are ultimately on the side of good. Sometimes it is a matter of choices. What...

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The Favourite

disease 11:47:00

You know these female friendships, they can last for years. They are full of support, understanding, parties danced to, evenings drown in glasses of wine, sobs over broken-hearts and loads of laughter. But friendships easily border on relationships, and every love can just as easily turn into hatred. What if years-long fondness and passion are a trigger for lobbying injust political decisions? Is...

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Coco Before Chanel

accident 02:31:00

In the man-dominated world, we appreciate the story of the success of those who spread their wings and won a sense of independence. Among the few company owners who boast to be of beautiful sex, there was one woman who changed the fashion and perception of women for years. But is creating a fashion empire devoid of pain and heartbreak? What hides behind...

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Larry Crowne/ Life of the Party

divorce 09:55:00

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The greatest decisions in our lives are made when we lose all sense of security. When the monsters that we are so deeply afraid of come into fruition from gossips overheard and other people's calamities, and happen to us, we lose balance and hope. We can give up, swimming in the pool of misery. But occasionally, having nothing else to keep us is...

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

crime 12:21:00

Reminding ourselves one of Michael Jackson's songs, be careful who you love, because the ones we fall for rarely fill our dreamy expectations. Some of them manage to surpass them in the most extravagant and unexpected ways. Some of them, from the scenario of bliss and family peace, turn our lives into a never-ending nightmare. You never entirely know a human being, whether...

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Avengers

Brie Larson 09:13:00

There are phenomena of the contemporary world that seem stronger than religion. They connect despite the continent, age, and race. They unite, making people with no similarities, the part of a bigger whole. Maybe as a child you became besotted with the concept of a superhero, possibly you have been driven to the formula of a good science fiction movie. It could be...

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Amok

divorce 12:14:00

Some great stories are based on facts, others occupy our minds to the extent of making us believe, trust and fall in love with the characters. At times novels and films are our greatest inspiration and a trigger that makes us act and change our ways. Some books have the power to influence and turn our mindset upside down. But there are also...

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Nina

homosexuality 11:58:00

It's one thing when all your life you have been a supporter of LGBT rights, having pinned rainbows on the parts of your outfits, surviving countless parent conversations advocating for the right to love or sobbing watching Ellen DeGeneres' biography. But when your life is a perfect standard conservative scenario, your focus is entirely on heterosexual procreation and all of a sudden you...

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