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.
We rarely talk about it. You're more likely to talk about gastric problems than boast about your mental breakdown, visits to the psychiatrist, inability to work or build your personal life from scratch after losing someone you love. Life is unpredictable. Major shifts and changes make you mature and develop, but they often take away the fuel of your life motivation. You become an outcast among your family members, workmates, and friends. Your work-life balance is stretched and you cannot cope, your personal life is in pieces, your behavior is irrational and you are on drugs which numb you and blur your senses. Can you find the light at the end of the tunnel after a major breakdown, is there a chance for love and new beginnings when all hope has been lost? Uplifting. Silver Linings Playbook. Enjoy.
You cannot predict your life. You can't really tell whether it will reward you with bliss and happiness or punish you with struggle and pain. Even if everything seems to go well, there are moments which can surprise you, knock you on the floor of disease, loss, a failed marriage, and disappointment. How to take everything what life has to offer with a pinch of salt, how to get back on your feet when your husband leaves you for another woman, how to have the dignity to die, and why life is a never-ending process of losses and gains. And it never stops being fun. It's only up to us how we decide to live it. Finding Your Feet.
People all over the world are quite similar, despite the difference of religion, nationality, race, and age, but there is one difference that guarantees a big lifestyle shift. Money. If you have it, you don't have to work, you hire people to fold your clothes, wash your underwear, clean your toilets, take care of your kids. If you don't have it, you will most likely fold somebody's clothes, clean somebody's toilets, babysit somebody's children and wash the dirt from someone's underwear. What if by a lucky coincidence you were to switch the lifestyles and taste a little bit of glamour? Will you be accepted in the hostile world of unwritten rules? And does money really give happiness and dignity? Madame.
For some, a woman should still spend time in the kitchen, take care of children, fulfill her husband's wishes and obey. She should be the property of the husband and any of her acts of independence should be killed in the bud. How sad. Over the last century, women rightly discovered that they are no worse than their husbands, what is more, they can be even better. They can earn their own money, have the best of both worlds, enjoy their sex lives, vote and make important decisions. Their voices matter and are heard, inspiring younger generations to make a change. But this realization wasn't a fast process, it started in the kitchen and in the bedroom. It also started in little Swiss villages, which were reached by the echoes of revolution. Important and inspiring. The Divine Order.
A small percentage of women focused on their careers, giving up families for a higher aim to produce something for humanity. They lived for the audience. They blossomed with the talent that was given to them, by hard work and killing schedule, achieving perfection and eternal fame. They also led lives full of pain, disappointing loves, and downs of not fulfilling some of the life roles that, for them, women, were an option. One of these women was Maria Callas, a legend who succeeded and also wanted to achieve life's happiness. An unforgettable voice and a life devoted to music. Maria by Callas.
In the suburbs, the Church plays a major role. It influences your political beliefs, opinions, it frowns upon your immoral conduct, making you stop drinking, smoking, and engaging in extramarital affairs and sexual pleasures. Into this balloon of moral values, can come a man who is finally able to fulfill women's deepest dreams and desires. Julia Michaels sang, They say all good boys go to heaven / But bad boys bring heaven to you. Three beautiful women full of dreams, fantasies, and cravings, and one unexpectedly bad boy. Can heaven turn into hell? The Witches of Eastwick.
If you are a fan of gardening, you most likely know that plants need sun, water, soil and the addition of love, as when you talk to them they seem to grow bigger and happier. Occssionally, your plant needs something different, it craves what animals usually crave to grow and be full. The fate of a few individuals can be changed by the growth of one special plant, which values blood over water and can in fact become a mortal threat. Little Shop of Horrors. Enjoy.
In today's world of racial and religious discrimination, growing nationalistic tendencies, and heartbreaking attacks in which die the innocent, it's difficult to deal with grief. You cannot rationalize the fact that someone for ideological reasons and hatred is willing to deprive you of what you love the most. There are people who can in the blink of an eye destroy your whole life, your work, and your purpose. They value numbers over individuals. They respect uncertain promises of religion over a human being. They play God. In the Fade. A story about a woman who lost her whole life and tried to make sense of it all it the hostile world of German multi-racial contemporary reality. The epitome of our worst fears and increasingly frequent tragedy among our friends.
Of course, there are people who enter a perfect relationship and live in this healthy paradise for years. The majority of us, however, struggle with an unexpected deterioration of health, whether it's an accident that leaves us limbless, handicapped or devoid of one sense, financial problems or life crisis. Even though you wish for an easy life, sometimes consciously you choose the life of struggle. A struggle that no other person apart from the actual participants of the fragile love affair can describe. You decide to stay despite it all. You digest visits to the doctor, days when it seems so hard that it's unbearable, you boost up patience with a handful of prescribed medicine. Mental diseases touch all of us, they lead to the destruction of the relationship, family problems, loneliness, ostracism, isolation. But for some, love is deeper than the superficial happy ending in prosperity and easiness. Some, quite consciously, chose the windy road of struggle and love. Ana, mon amour.
Do you believe in the compilation of fortunate accidents, signs, people met for some reason, planes missed, plans canceled and chances given at the most unexpected time? Can you say for sure that your fate wasn't written somewhere in the stars and that everything hasn't happened for some reason? Do you think that there was one person designed especially for you and your past failures were to push you to an actual path towards happiness? What happens if two people perfect for each other decide to leave it all to fate? Serendipity.
If you believe in fairy tales, you know that for everybody there is a second-half reserved in the storage of soulmates. Our task is only to find it, dive into the heap of hay and try to find the needle. But falling in love can surprise you. Your ultimate partner might not be the one you have expected. But stop complaining, just let yourself be carried by fate. You have some skills to complete your beloved and you have some deficits to be by this beloved completed. This is how happiness works and, for some, it can last a lifetime. Unforgettable storytelling, memorable characters, beautiful scenes and interiors, and a love story between a mute princess and a spectacular frog. Some films make you believe in fairy tales, The Shape of Water.



















