Cinematography: Wojciech Staron
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Wojciech Staron. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Argentinian Lesson
2011 · Documentary · 56 min. · Poland
Direction Wojciech Staron
Plot Set in the remote Argentinean town of Azara, this personal documentary by Wojciech Staron; features his seven-year-old son Janek. While the Polish director’s wife teaches locals of Polish origin the...
6.7
26 votes
6.7
26 votes
The Prize
2011 · Movie · 120 min. · Mexico
Direction Paula Markovitch
Cast Paula Hertzog · Sharon Herrera · Laura Agorreca · Viviana Suraniti
Plot Year 1977 in Argentina. Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn’t completely understand what the secret is about. The life of her...
6.6
100 votes
6.6
100 votes
Refugiado
2014 · Movie · 95 min. · Argentina
Direction Diego Lerman
Cast Julieta Díaz · Sebastián Molinaro · Marta Lubos · Silvia Baylé
Plot Matias and his mother Laura, find themselves forced to hurriedly abandon the house they live in to escape another outburst of violence from Fabian. Matias is 8 and Laura is...
6.3
392 votes
6.3
392 votes
The Substitute
2022 · Movie · 110 min. · Argentina
Direction Diego Lerman
Cast Juan Minujín · Alfredo Castro · Bárbara Lennie · Renata Lerman
Plot Lucio, a prestigious university professor of literature, takes a course at a school in the area where he grew up, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. There he will try...
5.9
770 votes
5.9
770 votes
A Sort of Family
2017 · Movie · 95 min. · Argentina
Direction Diego Lerman
Cast Bárbara Lennie · Daniel Aráoz · Claudio Tolcachir · Yanina Ávila
Plot Malena is a middle-class doctor in Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives a call from Dr Costas, telling her she must leave immediately for the north of the country: the...
5.8
606 votes
5.8
606 votes
Saviour Square
2006 · Movie · 105 min. · Poland
Direction Joanna Kos-Krauze · Krzysztof Krauze
Cast Jowita Budnik · Arkadiusz Janiczek · Ewa Wencel · Dawid Gudejko
5.8
61 votes
5.8
61 votes
January
2022 · Movie · 95 min. · Latvia
Direction Viesturs Kairiss
Cast Karlis Arnolds Avots · Baiba Broka · Rudolfs Cirulis · Alise Danovska
Plot An aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
5.7
47 votes
5.7
47 votes
Dawn
2015 · Movie · 96 min. · Latvia
Direction Laila Pakalnina
Cast Antons Georgs Grauds · Vilis Daudzins · Wiktor Zborowski · Andris Keishs
5.6
27 votes
5.6
27 votes
Birds Are Singing in Kigali
2017 · Movie · 113 min. · Poland
Direction Joanna Kos-Krauze · Krzysztof Krauze
Cast Jowita Budnik · Eliane Umuhire
Plot We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague...
4.0
47 votes
4.0
47 votes
The U.S. and the Holocaust (TV Miniseries)
2022 · Documentary · 360 min. · United States
Direction Sarah Botstein · Ken Burns · Lynn Novick
Plot This six-hour limited series examines America's response to the Holocaust before, during, and after WWII.
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Glos
2023 · Documentary · 73 min. · Poland
Direction Dominika Montean
Plot The Jesuit Order novitiate is a severe form of a trial. During two years of isolation from society and the comforts of civilization, young men have enough time to ponder...
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Brothers
2015 · Documentary · 68 min. · Poland
Direction Wojciech Staron
Plot Two elderly brothers, who managed to escape from a Soviet work camp in the past, cannot escape from each other. In spite of all the differences between them, they have...
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Autobiography
2022 · Movie · 115 min. · Indonesia
Direction Makbul Mubarak
Cast Kevin Ardilova · Haru Sandra · Rukman Rosadi · Yusuf Mahardika
Plot With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family...
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Mur
2015 · Movie · 77 min. · Poland
Direction Dariusz Glazer
Cast Tomasz Schuchardt · Aleksandra Konieczna · Marta Nieradkiewicz · Krzysztof Olszewski
Plot A young man is beginning a fresh chapter of his life. He has been carrying out finishing work on a newly built gated estate. Now he himself rents a flat...
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Paradise (TV)
2007 · Documentary · 58 min. · Sweden
Direction Jerzy Sladkowski
Plot "A marriage that survives wallpapering can survive anything" - according to a Northern Swedish proverb . Hans and Kerstin Stralström a couple who are both eighty-three years old, put their...
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The Fledglings
2022 · Documentary · 84 min. · Poland
Direction Lidia Duda
Plot Zosia, Oskar and Kinga start their first year at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children. Like fledglings, they are too young to leave home. Facing the separation...
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Don Juan
2015 · Documentary · 92 min. · Sweden
Direction Jerzy Sladkowski
Plot Twenty-two-year-old Oleg doesn’t live up to his mother Marina’s idea of a real man. She thinks he’s an autistic loafer. He’s enrolled at the University of Nizhny Novgorod and is...
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A Hole in the Head
2018 · Movie · 91 min. · Poland
Direction Piotr Subbotko
Cast Sandra Korzeniak · Andrzej Szeremeta · Bartlomiej Topa
Plot An actor travels around the country with a theatre troupe. After many years he returns to his home village where his mother is dying, and meets a kind of his...
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Glasgow
2011 · Movie · 30 min. · Poland
Direction Piotr Subbotko
Cast Rafal Garnecki · Sandra Korzeniak · Zygmunt Malanowicz · Aneta Thuong-Majchrzak
Plot Damian, a teenage boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for the Celtic Glasgow F.C. His dream is to visit him. In...
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