What connects Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, and Jerzy Skolimowski? This lecture is a rare chance to understand how Polish cinema of the mid-20th century reinterpreted the war experience, becoming personal and audacious. We will hear about attempts to break through ideology - to the truth about man. What do we know about the Polish New Wave? Typically, it is overshadowed by the fame of the French one, yet it was in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s that true cinematic revolutions began. In the lecture of the film club "Non-obvious Cinema," we will discuss the phenomenon of the Polish film school, whose directors were the first in Eastern Europe to attempt to turn the screen into a confessional - bold, piercing, and almost intimate. Cinema after World War II in Poland is a reaction to trauma, a search for a new optics that would allow speaking about the individual rather than the collective. The young generation of authors - Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Munk - brought personal stories to the forefront, broke patterns, and offered the viewer a new cinematic language. They posed questions that were not allowed to be answered. The lecture will provide an opportunity to look at this period through the lens of the most prominent representatives of the school: Roman Polanski, Kazimierz Kutz, Jerzy Skolimowski. We will talk about how aesthetic experiments became acts of resistance, how simple editing solutions or play with color and sound turned into a manifesto. This meeting is not only for cinephiles but also for those interested in cultural history, the art of Eastern Europe, and the search for sincerity in cinema. It is a chance to understand how the political context shaped artistic expression and why the Polish New Wave, though underestimated, left a deep mark on world cinema.