"Wanda Gościmińska. A Waver", dir. Wojciech Wiszniewski, Poland 1975, 22 min

A staged documentary by Wojciech Wiszniewski, one of the best works of this talented, prematurely deceased director, whose most important films were produced at the Educational Films Studio. The formally original, creative documentary was based on the story of Wanda Gościmińska, a famous Łódź textile worker, a symbol and product of the era of socialist propaganda of success.

Referring to this figure, a socialist-realist statue from the 1950s, Wiszniewski exposes the falsity and hypocrisy of those times and the mechanisms by which man becomes a tool of ideological manipulation. The cinematographer of this intriguing film is Oscar® winner Zbigniew Rybczyński.

"Essay", dir. Andrzej Barański, Poland 1979, 18 min.

An insightful study of human personality in adolescence, during puberty. An attempt at self-definition, answers to the most important questions troubling an adolescent boy. An inner monologue of a young man, as if a stream of consciousness merged with an original picture being a synthesis of various phenomena and life situations.

"Scenes From the Life of a Man", dir. Bogdan Dziworski, Poland 1983, 20 min.

An unusual film with an unusual protagonist – a man deprived of both hands but able to perform almost all daily activities on his own. We see that Jerzy Orłowski is not only skillful with a door key or lighting a cigarette, but also skis, swims, and draws with real artistry. All this is told without a single word, solely through evocative images, accompanied only by isolated sound effects and the hero's whistling. A restrained and at the same time poignant film by Bogdan Dziworski – one of the most outstanding filmmakers associated with the Educational Films Studio (WFDK), with excellent cinematography by Krzysztof Ptak.

"Rat Catcher", dir. Andrzej Czarnecki, Poland 1986, 21 min.

A multiple award-winning film about a man who destroys rats on an industrial scale. The title "rat catcher" presents his working methods in details. They must be carefully devised, because rats are highly intelligent animals and "it is not easy to win with them". The film is an ambiguous and perverse work: it was made shortly after the end of martial law in Poland and at the time was clearly interpreted as a mischievous metaphor of the recent hunt by the communist security services for leaders of the opposition underground. The film's expressive cinematography was chiefly directed by the late Piotr Sobociński, one of Poland's most successful cinematographers in the United States, who at the beginning of his career often worked with the Educational Films Studio.