Jerzy Stuhr

A reflexive meditation on art and documentary and a key film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s career, CAMERA BUFF follows a factory worker's growing obsession with filmmaking after he captures the birth of his daughter on his new 8 mm camera.

Conjuring a claustrophobic vision of post-nuclear Poland, Piotr Szulkin lends his satirical eye to the weaponization of religion as a means of social control. A utilitarian triumph of ramshackle world-building, O-Bi, O-Ba is a hallucinatory examination of apocalyptic anxieties in the atomic age.

Scope, a prisoner on a behemoth space station, is chosen to ‘volunteer’ to explore far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia-458, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price—his violent demise will be broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia-458’s inhabitants.

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.

Pulled from the Cannes competition in the same year that Poland declared martial law, Piotr Szulkin’s tale of alien invasion is a blazing satire of the media machine. Dedicated to H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, this noir-inflected sci-fi is an eerily prescient interrogation of the fake-news era.

The Vatican calls in a blasé psychiatrist to counsel a panicked new Pope who finds himself wholly unprepared for the responsibilities of the position.