Best Polish animation movies

The Peasants (2023)

Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.

The Cathedral (2002)

The Cathedral (Polish: Katedra) is a 2002 short animated science fiction movie by Tomasz Bagiński, based on a short story by Jacek Dukaj, winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2000. The film was nominated in 2002 for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the 75th Academy Awards.

Tango (1985)

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.

Loop (2014)

Experimental animation based on graphics.

Pussy (2016)

A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.

Red Light Train (2020)

Young stewardess works in a luxury, long – distance train. Its destination is Paris. Travellers are mostly couples on their way to the capital of love. Stewardess becomes the unintentional witness of their quiet intimacy and intensive tenderness. Overwhelmed by her own loneliness and her burning need of love and being loved, she becomes to watch the lovers closely, in the more and more obsessive way.

Fallen Art (2004)

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

Reksio Opiekun (2007)

The Kinematograph (2009)

A 19th-century inventor is close to perfecting motion pictures but doesn't want to reveal his invention to the public until he can show films with sound and color.

Kill It and Leave This Town (2020)

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

Acid Rain (2019)

After running away from her depressing village in eastern Europe, a teenage girl meets a new friend under a bridge.

Moonshine (2013)

A little guy named Szczepan slowly sinks into the realms of madness because of the tragic love that he feels towards Helena, a cold-blooded temptress who rejects him without batting an eye.

Airborne (2021)

This surreal animation connects the world of flying machines with the kingdom of flora and fauna. Engrossed in the fight, a pilot loses his target and his plane crashes into the crown of a tree. What seems to be a tragic end opens a new stage in history. In the place of the accident, a new life is formed.

Zima (2024)

It grows slowly like an icicle, but one day it falls and shatters. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence, the lagoon freezes and the inexpressible resurfaces like a crack in the ice. A mosaic portrait of a small fishing village, where the interdependence between humans, between humans and animals, and between animals is based on a delicate balance of warm tenderness and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community told with magical realism.

ARK (2007)

An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man ...

Bogdan Boner: Ajronwejder (2024)

The Stairs (1969)

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.

Włatcy móch. Ćmoki, Czopki i Mondzioły (2009)

Fugue for Cello, Trumpet and Landscape (2014)

The film shows the process of evoking feelings and searching for landscape specificity by recounting events which have taken place in the scenery.

Kapitan Bomba - Zemsta Faraona (2012)

Labyrinth (1963)

A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.

Obverse and Reverse (2020)

The other side of the picture hides a parallel world. At the same time and place, the same story happens. Two worlds are constantly intertwining and interacting with each other.

Bad Exorcist: First Day of School (2024)

After discovering a demonic talisman in his pocket, an unsuspecting teacher is possessed and wreaks deadly havoc on the entire school.

Porwanie Baltazara Gąbki (1969)

Maska (2010)

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.

Danny Boy (2010)

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

Franz Kafka (1992)

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

My Fat Arse and I (2020)

A girl who believes she is too fat is invited to the "Kingdom of Slimbuttlandia".

Kitty Kotty Says "Good Morning!" (2023)

The beloved character from popular preschool books makes her big-screen debut! Join Kitty Kotty as we attend a vitamin party, fly to space, and start a musical band.

Millhaven (2010)

Fifteen-year-old Loretta knows we all have to die. Will she be able to do a "dance" of life? The untold story of the narrator in Nick Cave's dark ballad, boldly performed by Katarzyna Groniec.