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Familiar Strangers Outdoor Polish Film Poster Exhibition / 3 February - 2 April
03 Feb, 00:00
Samsung KX
A FREE Exhibition showcasing the iconic work of Polish poster artists at Kiosk N1C, Lower Stable Street, King’s Cross.
Step into a world where Hollywood classics are transformed through the bold, imaginative lens of the artists from...
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Opening Night Gala - Under the Volcano
Damian Kocur
06 Mar, 18:10
BFI Southbank
Damian Kocur’s observational second feature, after his award winning BREAD AND SALT, goes to the emotional heart of those impacted by war. Life can change in an instant, due to circumstances beyond our control. This is a war story from...
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It's Not My Film
Maria Zbąska
07 Mar, 18:30
ICA
Winner of the SMART7 International Competition Maria Zbąska’s debut feature (which she also wrote and shot) is a distinctive 21st century comedy with a serious message. Wanda (newcomer Zofia Chabiera) and Janek (popular film and TV actor...
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The Jazz & Animation Jam
08 Mar, 13:30
Ciné Lumière
This film matinée is a special event KINOTEKA has prepared for our youngest audiences. Cine Lumiere will be hosting a screening of the most iconic Polish, French and British cartoons accompanied by live music played by prominent jazz...
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Wanda Rutkiewicz: The Last Expedition
Eliza Kubarska
11 Mar, 20:00
The Garden Cinema
Eliza Kubarska (THE WALL OF SHADOWS) returns to the mountains for this award winning exploration of the life and disappearance of mountaineering icon Wanda Rutkiewicz. The first woman (and the first Pole) to climb Everest, Rutkiewicz’s...
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Simona Kossak
Adrian Panek
12 Mar, 20:00
30 Mar, 18:00
The Garden Cinema
From a small cabin deep in the Białowieża Forest Simona Kossak (1943 - 2007) studied nature and made history, largely on her own terms. Adrian Panek’s engaging dramatised biography of the pioneering scientist (played by Sandra...
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Film Posters Reimagined: Panel Discussion
13 Mar, 19:00
Samsung KX
London-based multimedia and visual artists Giorgia Ascolani and James Dawe have reimagined the iconic Polish Poster School film posters for the digital age. They will participate in a panel discussion about their art and...
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Minghun
Jan P. Matuszyński
14 Mar, 18:00
Ciné Lumière
How is it possible to have hope at time of great sadness? From the director of LEAVE NO TRACES this is another film exploring the complexity of family ties and social behaviours. When Jurek (Marcin Dorociński, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE- Dead...
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Passenger
Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz
16 Mar, 14:00
Ciné Lumière
The iconic Polish film Passenger (Pasażerka) has been described as “one of the most audacious fictions ever made about the Holocaust”.
Based on Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz’s 1962 novel (which also inspired Mieczysław Weinberg’s...
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Exhibition: The Film Décors of the Quay Brothers / 18 March - 4 April
18 Mar, 00:00
Swedenborg House
Surely the world’s greatest practicing stop-motion artist animators, the Brothers Quay have been painstakingly crafting their own unique, interlinked universe of astonishingly imagined animated worlds for over 45 years. Creating across...
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Silent Trees
Agnieszka Zwiefka
19 Mar, 18:20
Bertha DocHouse
Caught in a forest between Belarus and Poland a Kurdish family becomes a geopolitical pawn. Picking up issues explored in Agnieszka Holland’s GREEN BORDER this observational documentary focuses on 16 year old Rana Husni who shoulders her...
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'A' for Antkowiak
Anna Więckowska, Tomasz Ossoliński
20 Mar, 18:00
Ciné Lumière
Over the 40 years of its operation, the Moda Polska fashion house gathered around itself many outstanding creators and a large group of models. In 1998, following its bankruptcy, Jerzy Antkowiak bought its collections and stored them in...
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White Courage
Marcin Koszałka
22 Mar, 16:30
ICA
Multi award winning cinematographer Marcin Koszalka (RED SPIDER) returns to his concerns around life on the edge in this historical drama about two Polish Goral/Highlander brothers, which he also directs. Highlighting the inextricable...
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Irena's Vow - UK Premiere Screening
Louise Archambault
23 Mar, 18:30
JW3
Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable true story of Irena Gut Opdyke and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy. 19-year-old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly...
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Under the Grey Sky
Mara Tamkovich
25 Mar, 18:20
The Barbican
Personal integrity and the importance of justice is at the core of this outstanding feature debut by former journalist Mara Tamkovich. Inspired by the true story of reporter Katsiaryna Andreyeva, who was arrested in Belarus after...
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Serpentine Cinema presents Such Feeling
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
25 Mar, 18:30
Ciné Lumière
This Special Screening is presented by Serpentine Cinema in partnership with Institut Francais and the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
Such Feeling is a poetic and political documentary that follows a group of queer friends in Warsaw...
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (BFI IMAX Screening)
Quay Brothers
26 Mar, 18:00
BFI IMAX
The Quay Brothers’ new feature is a distinctive stop-motion work where dreams, fantasies and memories blur, creating a wondrous alternative reality.
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting...
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The Last Stage
Wanda Jakubowska
30 Mar, 13:00
Phoenix Cinema
The first feature film to be made about the Holocaust and shot in Auschwitz-Birkenau, barely two years after liberation, Wanda Jakubowska's harrowing 1948 The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) focuses on the women prisoners of Auschwitz. The...
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Quay Brothers Short Films: Two Programmes + Q&A
Quay Brothers
30 Mar, 14:00
30 Mar, 16:15
The Garden Cinema
Two special programmes of short films by the Quay Brothers. The first programme will be followed by a Q&A with the Quay brothers.
Programme 1 - 14.00:
Stille Nacht I
Street of Crocodiles
Stille Nacht II
In Absentia
Stille...
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HAS Film Posters Exhibition / BFI & ICA Foyers / 1-26 April
01 Apr, 00:00
BFI Southbank
Accompanying this year's Wojciech Has film retrospective at the BFI and ICA, we are proud to present an exhibition of 16 original Polish posters of Has's films, curated by DI Factory, which will be on display in the BFI and ICA Foyers...
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The Saragossa Manuscript (BFI Screening)
Wojciech Jerzy Has
01 Apr, 18:40
BFI Southbank
One of the cultiest of all cult films, with a fan base that includes Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese and The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, this lavish, sprawling adaptation of Jan Potocki’s classic novel starts off as a lavish widescreen...
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The Noose
Wojciech Jerzy Has
02 Apr, 20:00
16 Apr, 18:15
BFI Southbank
After a decade spent making mostly non-fiction short films, Wojciech Jerzy Has delivered one of the most powerful Polish feature debuts of the 1950s, adapted from a story by Marek Hłasko and staged in a baroque symbol-strewn style that...
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Description Found Years Later
Slawomir Rogowski, Stanislaw Zawislinski
03 Apr, 19:30
Ognisko Polskie - The Polish Hearth
A multi-dimensional attempt to delve into the life and touch the mystery of Wojciech Jerzy Has: a visionary, a total artist, a sophisticated stylist, and a creator of worlds. From The Noose to How to Be Loved and The Hourglass...
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Farewells
Wojciech Jerzy Has
04 Apr, 18:10
18 Apr, 20:40
BFI Southbank
Born into an aristocratic family that he despises, Paweł (Tadeusz Janczar) impulsively runs off with taxi dancer Lidka (Maria Wachowiak), a fiercely independent-minded woman who knows how to put him and any other man firmly in his place;...
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How To Be Loved
Wojciech Jerzy Has
05 Apr, 18:30
08 Apr, 16:10
ICA
On the eve of WWII, Felicja (Barbara Krafftówna) and Wiktor (Zbigniew Cybulski) star in a production of Hamlet – he’s an established star, she’s a hesitant debutant. But their relationship shifts radically he’s forced to go into hiding...
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The Codes
Wojciech Jerzy Has
06 Apr, 14:30
12 Apr, 12:10
ICA
In an attempt to resolve various present-day problems, Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) searches obsessively for his son Jędrek, missing since WWII and probably dead, the “codes” of the title referring to tiny scraps of sometimes conflicting...
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One Room Tenants
Wojciech Jerzy Has
07 Apr, 20:45
18 Apr, 18:15
BFI Southbank
At the turn of the 1930s, a group of students and self-styled artist-intellectuals shares a single room in a Warsaw tenement house because that’s all they can afford, while working out how they can fit into pre-WWII Polish society while...
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An Uneventful Story
Wojciech Jerzy Has
10 Apr, 18:30
15 Apr, 16:10
ICA
Has’s first film in a decade was this wistful adaptation of a Chekhov short story, depicting a routine couple of days in the life of an elderly professor (Gustaw Holoubek) dealing with tedious professional and personal matters while...
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UnDying Sounds: Reinventing Komeda - Southbank Centre Concert
11 Apr, 20:00
Southbank Centre
An immersive experience at the crossroads of film, AI-driven visual art, and fusion of jazz and electronic music delivered by Blanka Barbara & Late Arrivals (electronics & piano), featuring Alice Zawadzki (vocals) and jazz trio...
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Goodbye to the Past
Wojciech Jerzy Has
11 Apr, 20:50
21 Apr, 16:10
BFI Southbank
Middle-aged actress Magdalena (Lidia Wysocka) returns to her home town for the first time in years to attend her grandfather’s funeral and receive her inheritance. But this inevitably involves dealing with people (including former...
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Short Film Programme/ Wojciech Has
Wojciech Jerzy Has
12 Apr, 14:30
ICA
The Birch Street (Ulica Brzozowa, 1947)
Accordion (Harmonia, 1947)
Steam Engine Pt-47 (Parowóz Pt 47, 1949)
My City (Moje miasto, 1950)
First Harvest (Pierwszy plon, 1950) - co-directed with Jan Zelnik
Centralized Control of...
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The Doll
Wojciech Jerzy Has
12 Apr, 19:50
19 Apr, 12:00
BFI Southbank
A big-budget widescreen adaptation of Bołeslaw Prus’s novel, this was Wojciech Has’s first colour feature. Former brewery clerk Stanisław Wokulski (Mariusz Dmochowski) has returned to late 1870s Warsaw after a prolonged exile in Siberia...
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The Saragossa Manuscript (ICA Screening)
Wojciech Jerzy Has
13 Apr, 14:30
ICA
One of the cultiest of all cult films, with a fan base that includes Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese and The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, this lavish, sprawling adaptation of Jan Potocki’s classic novel starts off as a lavish widescreen...
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Gold Dreams
Wojciech Jerzy Has
14 Apr, 20:50
23 Apr, 18:00
BFI Southbank
A young man, Kazik (Władysław Kowalski) finds a job on a construction site in the mining town of Turów (“the end of the world”), far removed from the opulent settings of most of Has’s other films. Although Kazik tries to fit in with his...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (BFI Screening)
Wojciech Jerzy Has
17 Apr, 18:00
BFI Southbank
An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan...
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Write and Fight
Wojciech Jerzy Has
19 Apr, 19:00
24 Apr, 16:10
ICA
During WWI, three men share a prison cell: journalist Rafał (Wojciech Wysocki), notorious safecracker Szpicbródka (Zszisław Wardejn) and former monk Sykstus (Jan Peszek). While awaiting formal charges over publishing a satirical and...
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The Memoirs of a Sinner
Wojciech Jerzy Has
20 Apr, 18:00
25 Apr, 16:00
ICA
James Hogg’s celebrated 1824 genre-bending novel could almost have been written as a source text for a Wojciech Has film. In a wittily cinematic substitute for the book’s manuscript being discovered by grave robbers nestling within its...
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Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Wojciech Jerzy Has
22 Apr, 18:30
26 Apr, 14:30
ICA
Wojciech Has’s final film (is set in 16th-century Germany, beset by plague and religious persecution and rocked by the introduction of printing as a means of disseminating subversive ideas. After fleeing the Inquisition, young Balthazar...
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Closing Night Gala - The Hourglass Sanatorium (ICA Screening) + LIVE MUSIC by the Bester Quartet
Wojciech Jerzy Has
25 Apr, 18:30
ICA
An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan...