Piotr Dumała

Lagodna

Piotr Dumała

Józef Duriasz

A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based.

Zbrodnia i kara

Piotr Dumała

"It is the story of love and of how love can be destroyed by obsession. In our lives we are subject to two contradictory drives - the drive to be good and bad, the propensity to love and to hate" -Piotr Dumala, director

Pańcia

Iwona Siekierzyńska

Sylwia Karczmarczyk, Piotr Dumała

Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love with the priest and soon decides to meet him again to confess her feeling to him.

Sciany

Piotr Dumała

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

Hipopotamy

Piotr Dumała

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men who, at one point, decide to approach them in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

Ederly

Piotr Dumała

Mariusz Bonaszewski, Aleksandra Popławska

A man with an enigmatic look arrives at a town called Ederly. "Ederly is not only the name of the town, it has a deeper meaning", the visitor is told.

Wolność nogi

Piotr Dumała

A dream-like story of a sleeping man whose body parts live their own lives at night to return to him in the morning - all except one leg which has chosen freedom. Its owner as well as a crowd of homeless men chase the leg, but it grows feathers and flies away as a bird. A grotesque tale with a poetic ending and with interesting music by Janusz Hajdun.

Latajace wlosy

Piotr Dumała

Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.

Franz Kafka

Piotr Dumała

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

Las

Piotr Dumała

Stanisław Brudny, Mariusz Bonaszewski

The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.

Academy Leader Variations

A. Da, Skip Battaglia

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

Lykantropia

Piotr Dumała

Wolves reveal they are really humans in wolf costumes and proceed to eat each other.

Cartoon Noir

Jiří Barta, Paul Vester

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story.

Czarny Kapturek.

Piotr Dumała

A short film about a little black riding hood.

Dr Charakter przedstawia II

Piotr Dumała

Nerwowe życie kosmosu

Piotr Dumała

A short black comedy movie with a scent of horror. A distant planet somewhere in space inhabited by black Characters from fairy tales.