Movies: Lena Schimscheiner

Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a tru...

Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires....

As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family....

Due to a violent snowstorm, Agnieszka is cut off from the rest of the world in a charming mountain cottage, and a mysterious and handsome man in a Santa Claus suit appears on her way. Five-year-old Zosia and her mother, despite their poor financial s...

Fine-arts student Zosia is a young daredevil mural painter who enlivens Warsaw with lovely graffiti. She lives with her mother Roma and grandmother Romy in a beautiful villa that has come under threat from property developers. Romy has long lost the...

Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" without telling him. Some changes are good - they send him a nanny, the enterprising Irena; some are ...

Filip tries to reconcile himself with his new life after his long-term boyfriend broke up with him....

3.1415 consists of three chapters: "body in politics," "body in art" and "body at war”. The movie explores different aspects of women's lives, raising questions about stereotypes, discrimination and inequality. This movie is an insightful and importa...