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[TRAILER] (Polish: Na srebrnym globie) On the Silver Globe is an unfinished 1988 Polish epic surrealist science fiction film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski (Possession) and adapted from The Lunar Trilogy by his grand-uncle, Jerzy Żuławski. The plot follows a small group of cosmic explorers who leave Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2025 - 3 comments

[TRAILER] 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. This is the first film in Polish filmmaker Piotr Szulkin's Apoacalypse Tetrology. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 30, 2025 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped, constantly forced from one side of the border to the other. Thirty years after her film Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland's Green Border challenges viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 19, 2024 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life's path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 29, 2024 - 6 comments

[TRAILER] Peter (Itay Tiran) receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something -- or rather someone -- and from then on very strange things begin to happen. A clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 21, 2022 - 4 comments