Movies: Barbara Jonak

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face...

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local ...

A journalist unearths a horrific conspiracy when she questions the events surrounding a celebrity’s death....

Budny, a secret service officer, secretly surveils Bishop Karol Wojtyla for 20 years. An unreciprocated bond forms between Budny and the unaware Wojtyla, leading to an obsessive, pathological relationship from Budny's perspective....

When a spiteful coworker sabotages her deliveries, a courier and a helpful customer must race to return Christmas presents to their intended recipients....

A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife's su...

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life....

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the proble...

After 50 years, Zofia and Ania are deciding to go on their last journey together to fight for their old love....

Ki is a young woman who no longer wants to live with the father of her child. She moves into a house in which lives Miko, a serious man who does not care for distractions. The responsibility of raising a child on her own comes up against the need to ...

Piotr's life is not working out for him until he unexpectedly hits the cover of a popular magazine....

A group of misfits from a carpet shop have a chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts - an ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine....

Piotruś goes to play the accordion at the centenary of a small-town parish to impress a girl. A quiet, shy boy meets many colorful personalities on his way, who put him to the test, but also help him overcome shame and allow himself to be himself....

Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him....

The peace of mind of a tenement house in Warsaw’s Mokotów district is shattered by the appearance of the alleged legal owner of the building. Using ruthless methods, the man starts forcing more families to move out. Janina Markowska is the most deter...

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union....

The life of a young man, a hedonist and a sinner, turns upside down when his wife becomes pregnant. He tries to escape, but it does not bring relief, on the contrary, it makes his life even more confusing. He can no longer separate reality from a dru...

A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb....

Sixteen years after an explosion on the Sun that made the Earth deteriorate, outcast soldier Stefan wakes up under carpenter Herman’s roof in the middle of nowhere....

Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU....