SCREENINGS: Sat 7 March, Sun 8 March, Thu 12 March, Sat 14 March, Fri 27 March, KIOSK N1C - COAL DROPS YARD
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE - REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE VIA AN EVENTRBITE LINK SOON, BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REGISTER FOR YOUR PLACE NOW, PLEASE RSVP to: [email protected] stating the date and screening you are interested in.
Enjoy free screenings of films from Wajda School & Studio, a film school founded in 2002 in Warsaw by Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski, where experienced filmmakers help young artists develop their own projects.
Developed as a bridge between film school and the professional film market, participants have benefitted from the advice of established filmmakers including Paweł Pawlikowski and Ildikó Enyedi as well from the founders themselves. The School's achievements include almost 3,000 graduates who have made their mark on the history of Polish and world cinema, and hundreds of film projects that have made it to the big screen.
Wajda School presents 17 films: short features and docs developed the last 20 years. This selection of works is full of award winners and audience favourites. It allows early works by now acknowledged talent to shine. It mixes genres, delivers the unexpected and offers invitations both to laugh and to cry. Each of these works comes from the heart: they all offer us spaces for reflection on 21st century European life.
Each programme gathers around a central theme, highlighting perspectives on strong female protagonists, the impact of family life, international conflict, intergenerational friction or the pressures to conform to social norms. How do we navigate expectations in today’s society? Wajda School alumni have some perspectives…
OPENING PROGRAMME - Saturday 7 March 19.00
Join us to learn about Wajda School and the upcoming screenings, including:
STIMULANTS & EMPATHOGENS (Stymulanty & Empatogeny) Poland 2024, Drama 23 min.
d. Mateusz Pacewicz, prod. Wajda Studio, WFDiF.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pixels-pierogies-tick...
A brilliantly paced comedy (directed and written by the writer of Corpus Christi) revolving around the desires we cannot discuss in family life. Featuring: Anita Sokołowska, Grzegorz Małecki, Andrzej Konopka and the emerging young talents: Michał Murawski and Gracjan Kosyl.
HER POWER, HER STORY 92 min. Sunday 8 March 16.00
Discover many perspectives on womanhood.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wajda-school-presents...
RAISA (Raisa) Poland 2020, Doc 21 min. d. Dorota Migas-Mazur, prod. Munk Studio, Wajda Studio.
A Chechen woman defies patriarchal tradition and seeks a new life in Poland.
LIVE (Na żywo) Poland 2022, Drama 14 min. d. Mara Tamkovich, prod. Wajda Studio, WFDiF, Bielsat TV.
Two Belarusian journalists are broadcasting the pacification of protests when they are tracked down by a police drone. What price will they pay for showing the truth? From the director of Under the Grey Sky.
BASIA: THREE SHORT STORIES (Trzy Opowiadania o Basi) Poland 2023, Doc 29 min. d. Mateusz Pietrak, prod. Wajda Studio. A delicate portrait of a vibrant 80 year old who refuses to be defined by her roles as sister, grandmother and actor.
VICTORIA (Victoria) Poland 2022, Drama 28 min. d. Karolina Porcari, prod. Munk Studio, Mizar Films, TVN, All For Movies, Boss of Toys. Distribution Krakow Film Foundation.
Katarzyna Figura features as a 50 year old woman whose perspective on life is transformed by discovering a pink package on her doorstep.
CARING - FOR THE CHILDREN 88 min. Thursday 12 March 18.00
It’s the small moments that count in the development of relationships in a family.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wajda-school-presents...
GETTING TO KNOW YOU (Jeszcze Mnie Nie Znasz) Poland 2023, Doc 30 min. d. Joanna Krzyżewska, prod. Wajda Studio.
Honest perspectives on life being messy and uncertain as you approach parenthood, much acclaimed in festivals.
COMET (Kometa) Poland 2019, Doc 18 min. d. Adam Buka, prod. Wajda School.
Five siblings await the arrival of a new family member in a world full of fantasy, meditated by the presence or absence of their mother.
JOANNA (Joanna) Poland 2013, Doc 40 min. d. Aneta Kopacz, prod. Wajda Studio.
Shot by Łukasz Żal (Hamnet, Cold War) this Oscar nominated short is a delicate and profound meditation on the importance of the everyday and the precarity of life in the face of terminal illness.
LIVING APART TOGETHER 100 min. Saturday 14 March 18.00
Sharing our living spaces requires compromise and agility, how can we maintain our identity?
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wajda-school-presents...
PTITSA Poland 2022, Doc 30 min. d. Alina Maksimenko, prod. Wajda Studio.
Ukraine born artist Maksimenko makes her first film in the confines of a lockdown apartment where mother and daughter maintain separate orbits.
WE WILL TALK AGAIN (Jeszcze porozmawiamy) Poland 2019, Doc 21min. d. Mateusz Buława, prod. Wajda School.
Three generations and a dog strive for personal space whilst the absence of the father is strongly felt.
DOWN TO EARTH (Blisko ziemi) Poland 2020, Doc 29 min. d. Paulina Sikora, prod. Wajda School. A portrait of a couple affected by alcoholism, showing both the difficulties and the deep love and closeness in their relationship.
SUPER UNIT (Superjednostka) Poland 2014, Doc 20 min. d. Teresa Czepiec, prod. Wajda Studio.
Brutalist architecture governs daily lives in this huge residential building in Katowice, inspired by Le Corbusier.
The camera goes along the corridors and through some of the 762 doors.
ESCAPING 82 min. Tuesday 24 March 18.00
In contemporary society we have to navigate many pressures on us to conform.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wajda-school-presents...
SYNTHOL Poland 2021, Drama 25 min. d. Piotr Trojan, prod. Munk Studio, Balapolis, TVN Film, Warmia Resort, ATM System, Black Photon. Developed at Wajda School. A smart and funny study of masculinity, written and directed by actor Trojan (25 Years of Innocence).
ARIA DIVA Poland 2007, Drama 30 min. d. Agnieszka Smoczyńska, prod. Munk Studio, Wajda Studio, TVP. From the director of The Lure and The Silent Twins a challenge to patriarchal tradition featuring Katarzyna Figura and Gabriela Muskala.
LIGHT YEARS (Lata Świetlne) Poland 2021, Doc 27 min. d. Monika Proba, prod. Munk Studio, Square Film Studio. Distribution: Krakow Film Foundation. Developed at Wajda School. Two friends from an Orthodox seminary live suspended in time and caught between social conventions.
CONSEQUENCES OF WAR 79 min. Friday 27 March 18.00
In times of war we confront the fundamentals of family relationships.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wajda-school-presents...
THE TRAP (Pułapka) Poland 2024, Drama 9 min. d. Vitalii Havura, prod. Wajda Studio.
Kherson under Russian occupation. A mother and son on opposite sides of the war.
IN LIMBO (W zawieszeniu) Poland 2024, Doc 70 min. d. Alina Maksimenko, prod. Wajda Studio.
From the director of Ptitsa a personal, moving portrait of a family drawn together by war, each seeking to make sense of their priorities and the consequences. EFA nominated for Best Film and Best Documentary Film of 2024
