Józef Leszek Sobczyk

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

Golem

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.

Butterflies

Twelve year-old Edek falls under the spell of a girl named Monika while vacationing at his aunt's house. Getting increasingly infatuated with her, Edek does not know that Monika is not all she seems to be.

Nos

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Diament radży

A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.

Aktorka

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

First Love

Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.

Milion za Laurę

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.

Pan Dodek

A cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to earn an allotment for a plot of land.

Wolf Ticket

The story of a worker who was dismissed for inconvenience to management for making justified and necessary criticisms of the factory's operations.

Silence

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.