FILMS

24 godziny Jadwigi L.

dir. Krystyna Gryczełowska

24 hours in the life of a woman who works, raises children and runs a home.

Poczatek

dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska

Inside a Polish textile factory, a woman’s day unfolds in fragments of steel, thread, and noise—until the end of her shift exposes the human cost of a life consumed by work.

Essere Donne

dir. Cecilia Mangini

Interviewed off-screen and shown mostly during their work in factories, proletarian Italian women reflect on the burden of the productive and reproductive labour.

Dzień za dniem

dir. Irena Kamieńska

In a bleak industrial landscape, aging twin sisters recount decades spent unloading bricks, exposing the gap between political promises and the harsh reality of survival.

Donna: vrouwen in verzet

dir. Yvonne Scholten

In Donna: Women in revolt, her unique film, the journalist and editor Yvonne Scholten portrays 80 years of women's resistance in Italy. A restoration by The Eye Filmmuseum from the Cinemien collection.

DRAWING TV

dir. Ewa Partum

An artist intervenes in televised images by drawing directly onto the screen, exposing the propaganda and constructed reality of communist-era television in Poland.

Każdy wie kto za kim stoi

dir. Maria Zmarz-koczanowicz

In a country defined by shortages, a long queue becomes a microcosm of society, where overheard fragments of conversation reveal everyday frustration, humor, and endurance.

Lice i opako | Лице и опако

dir. Binka Zhelyazkova

This is the director's version of "Nani-na" - longer interviews, more characters and in-depth stories.

Reakcja wymuszona

dir. Jolanta Marcolla

By confronting real-life encounters with formal repetition, Jolanta Marcolla reveals the camera as a tool of control that scripts and predicts human behavior.

Ziarno

dir. Teresa Tyszkiewicz

A body in constant physical contact with the world dissolves into matter, exposing the symbolic forces that shape identity and female sexuality.

Ich denke oft an Hawaii

dir. Elfi Mikesh

The 16-year-old Carmen lives in Berlin with her mother and brother. Her father, a Puerto Rican soldier, is long gone. Beyond the grey housing blocks, Carmen dreams of becoming a dancer and transforms her reality.

NANI-NA

dir. Binka Zhelyazkova

The film tells of the fate of women in Sliven prison in the 1980s in Bulgaria. Women inmates who came in as pregnant giving birth during their stay share their testimony of deshumanising treatment - not to mention being abandoned by their husbands, the society and the regime.