Do you think that you have the right to peace and happiness? To respect and dignity? To acceptance and understanding? It's enough to bring you closer to a toxic family member to destroy any sense of self-respect and slowly suck the happiness from you. A complex square of interconnected characters: a woman, her son, her husband, and his brother in a tangle of love and hate. And one rotten element which slowly destroys them all. The Power of the Dog.
We got used to male detectives: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot occupied our consciousness for decades. What we needed was someone new and fresh. And a woman. Because what was for decades ignored by others, was female intelligence, bravery, and the ability to notice what to man's eye is unseen. So wouldn't you like to engage in a detective mystery and a brave escape from the strict rules of conventions, tight structures of corsets in the male-dominated world of 19th century England? Enola Holmes is a smart aspiring detective and an example to follow for many girls growing up nowadays with access to Netflix. Based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer, Enola Holmes.
At times, you rebel against your family's vocation, deciding to become a baker in a clan of actors or an actor in a family of dentists. Occasionally, having no better idea for yourself, you step into your parents' shoes, inherit the family business, or climb the career ladder competing against your family members. Blood is thicker than water, you know it. And very rarely it gives you great opportunities to grow and cultivate your talent. It gives you strength, being set up against tough competition impersonated by your siblings from a young age. If prepares you for a lifestyle. What sacrifices do you have to make to succeed, why not everybody is bound to be the top of the top, why family's support is crucial and why failure can be a heartbreaking journey of lost dreams? One story of success, based on a real family: Fighting with My Family. Enjoy.
Your parents are grandparents seem to you old and weak people who need to be taken care of. But there was a time when they were also young: they had their romances, pleasures, and tragedies. They were wild, brave and unstoppable. The world belonged to them, their future was still uncertain and you - today's youth, weren't even taken into account as living beings. But times fly and generations shift, making the young rediscover the past of their parents. It's a beautiful story of how one niece came across an amazing story of love, hidden by years of political changes and family conflicts. Colonial Africa, breathtaking views, cultural clashes, racial injustice, and one man's fight to happiness. Two generations connected with one snowy mountainous house of the present and scorching hot, wild beaches and bushes of distant Africa. Enjoy.
Imagine a world where your genes determine what kind of profession and lifestyle you are going to have. There are no job interviews, no doubts, no dreams. A simple blood test outlines your professional path and there's nothing to discuss. Either you're a champion or you're a loser. You can design your perfect child and this perfect child can be put on the road to success. You can see that nature is full of flaws and in comparison with genetic modifications, it fails to create perfection. But what if your dreams surpassed your inborn abilities and you wanted a better life for yourself? What if there was a plan to deceive the system? Why talent and predispositions are not enough and to achieve what you dream about you need a very strong will, luck, and one or two lies? Gattaca.
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 dream? What moral dilemmas will be connected with such creatures? Can you make someone love you and then abandon it as many dogs are abandoned by their owners? Can you destroy it once it's aged or broken?
In the infinity of technology limits and time, is there a chance for a happy ending for people and their creations? Or will humanity's flaws: intolerance, prejudice, and fear of the unknown make idealism impossible? A story about a robot who wanted to become a boy, a modern-age Pinocchio; still amazes, A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Relationships with our parents seem to be hard. We wish for the support and unconditional love, but very often we get too high expectations, abuse, negligence, and the lack of understanding. The same is with siblings - it's a lottery game when you're not really sure whether they will turn out to be your enemies or friends. We all need a positive relationship in our lives, but family ties are very often complex and layered. To unwrap these layers takes time and emotional engagement of both sides. Life is also full of surprises. Totally unaware, you can discover that you have a sibling that will change your views on the family conflict and reevaluate all your priorities. A great portrayal of autism and brothers' bond in Rain Man. 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.
There are milestones in the course of your life which can make your life difficult. It can be the death of your parents, grandparents or siblings. It can be the end of school with the stresses of exams and the beginning of the unknown: studies, work, future. It can be a heart-break or first wobbly steps in discovering your sexuality or falling in love. It can be the redirecting of the trust that you had for some people and giving it to others with bigger or smaller doses of humiliation. It can also be the fact that your best friend can fall for your biggest enemy who is in fact related to you. Coming of age can be hard but all of us went through the awkward phase, didn't we? A few lessons learned, The Edge of Seventeen.
Who would you choose? A gentle boyfriend who will make you feel safe and loved but add no spice to the relationship? Or a walking villain who will make you walk on your tiptoes but satisfy you in bed? Good girls and bad girls equally have their share of experiences which either ended in boring marriages or excruciating heart-aches. But occasionally, you don't have to choose and you kill two birds with one stone, hitting the genes jackpot. But shouldn't you be concerned that all this game of love comes a little bit too easy? A mystery to solve and a sexual fantasy on both sides of the spectrum. L'amant double.
When we are children it's enough to listen to a scary story to make us wet our beds, sleep with our parents or avoid basements, attics, and cemeteries for years. When we are adults we either try to overcome our phobias or try to hide them, feeling ashamed of our weaknesses in the reasonable world of work and family life. But the game of fear is not over once you grow up. Life is packed with many unfortunate events, tragedies and losses. Your imagination allows you to protect yourself, avoiding the worst possible scenarios, but these are always by your side, crawling under your bed, hiding behind the window, lurking from a badly developed photograph, giving you creeps. What is it that you are afraid of? Spiders? Ghosts? Mummies? Dead bodies? Maybe you fear that your family will abandon you or you'll be killed in the worst possible tragic circumstances. The greatest way to defeat your fear is to rationalize it, to make it as insignificant as possible. But what if you come across a creature who can turn into every possible hysterical being and feed on your fear? Is a smile of a seemingly friendly entertainment impersonation able to trigger a terrifying terror? Which of the child characters shares your own problems, family pathologies, and insecurities? A cult classic, which just like Pennywise comes every twenty-seven years to feed on us, the nation of neurotics, a Stephen King's trademark, It. Which It makes you afraid the most?
There was once a pair of unbelievably different characters who could cooperate surprisingly well together. One: short, funny and witty. The other one: tall, muscular and naive. This duo starred in two films, which fell into the history of entertainment, making it difficult for anybody to repeat the act. Let's imagine a medical experiment, which in some ways got wrong and produced a perfect baby and a baby less ideal. Is it possible to build a family with someone, whom we meet after years of total separation? Let's imagine the same duo in a not yet fulfilled concept of a man being pregnant with a baby. Possible only with Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a whole bowl of popcorn.









