(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
Sixteen stories from a Wrocław housing estate. People, architecture and the memory of a place.
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Original documentaries.
Films and series.
Across Poland. Based in Wrocław.
Let’s talk about a film →The Community of Speed · film still · 2025An independent documentary project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Porsche AG.
KOVA Film makes original documentaries and series.
I tell stories about people, places and communities.
I work on a subject from research and shooting to the edit.
My films have been shown in cinemas, at festivals, on television and on VOD.
Frame 01/05 · 2025
The Community of Speed
- Type
- Documentary series, S1: 6 episodes
- Year
- 2025
- Filmed in
- Poland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, USA
- Premiere
- Kino Luna, Warsaw, 28.11.2025
A series about the people who make up the Porsche community. With the track and the workshop in the background, I follow their ambitions, their daily work and the price of passion. The first season has six episodes; you can watch the pilot in full.
Trailer ↗Series website ↗Premiere and backstage ↓
Premieres and screenings
- Cinema premiere · Kino Luna, Warsaw
- Screening of the episode with Karol Kręt · Biłgoraj Cultural Centre
Premiere and backstage.
6 photos · click to enlarge
Frame 02/05 · 2022 · (Un)usual Manhattan
(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
Sixteen floors and sixteen stories. A documentary about the residents of Wrocław’s Manhattan, the architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak and the memory of a place.
PLN 2548-hour access · KOVA VOD
Buy access · PLN 25Feature length · 79 min · available on KOVA VOD.
Premieres and screenings
- Preview screening · Pasaż Grunwaldzki, Wrocław
- Festival premiere · Millennium Docs Against Gravity, DCF Wrocław
- Second festival screening · DCF Wrocław
- TV broadcasts · TVP Kultura
- Type
- Feature documentary
- Year
- 2022
- Running time
- 79 min
- Director
- Filip Janerka
- VOD
- KOVA · PLN 25 / 48 hours
Frame 03/05 · 2024 · Risky Beauty
Ryzykowne Piękno
- Type
- Documentary
- Director and producer
- Filip Janerka
- Premiere
- Lower Silesian Film Centre (DCF), Wrocław, 22.03.2024
A documentary about the pressure to look a certain way, aesthetic medicine and decisions that change the body. Personal stories meet the views of specialists and the question of how far beauty should be “improved”.
Premieres and screenings
- Premiere · Lower Silesian Film Centre (DCF), Wrocław. Followed by a talk with the filmmaker.
Frame 04/05 · 2021
Szczęśliwa 8
- Type
- Social documentary
- Running time
- 52:53
- Year
- 2021
- Commissioned by
- Marshal’s Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
- Location
- Lower Silesia
Eight people from eight vocational activity centres in Lower Silesia talk about their work, achievements and dreams. A documentary about everyday life, agency and the value of independence.
PLN 2548-hour access · KOVA VOD
Buy access · PLN 25Frame 05/05 · 2022
Two Weeks in Ukraine
Two Ukrainian women talk about life before and after the Russian invasion began. A short documentary about separation, uncertainty and the help they found on the other side of the border.
Watch online · 16:49.
- Type
- Short documentary
- Running time
- 16:49
- Year
- 2022
- Author
- Filip Janerka
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Szczęśliwa 8
Eight protagonists. Work, independence and dreams.
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Cinema / festival / television
Premieres
and screenings.
Selected events and broadcasts: dates, venues, titles.
Episode screening
The Community of Speed
Biłgoraj Cultural Centre · episode with Karol Kręt
Cinema premiere
The Community of Speed
Kino Luna · Warsaw
TV broadcasts
(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
TVP Kultura
Premiere and talk
Ryzykowne Piękno
Lower Silesian Film Centre (DCF) · Wrocław
Festival screening
(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
Millennium Docs Against Gravity · DCF Wrocław
Festival premiere
(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
Millennium Docs Against Gravity · DCF Wrocław
Preview screening
(Nie)zwykły Manhattan
Pasaż Grunwaldzki · Wrocław
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