A special screening of Scarborn (Kos) with an introductory Film Talk by Central & Eastern European film expert Michael Brooke. The film screening will start at 2:30pm, following the talk which will take place between 1-2pm.
An additional screening of Scarborn will take place at Prince Charles Cinema on the 15th of March followed by a Q&A with the director. See other listing.
Winner of multiple prizes at Gdynia Film Festival 2023 including the Golden Lion, Press Award and Youth Jury Award, all for Best Feature, Kos is a landmark action drama, based on real events, peppered with black comedy and echoes of Tarantino. Paweł Maślona described his second feature as an allegory about the proletarian fight against fascism. It follows the story of General Tadeusz "Kos" Kościuszko (Jacek Braciak) who returns to Poland in 1794 and plans to start an uprising against the Russians. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and ex slave Domingo ( Jason Mitchell) and chased by Russian cavalry captain Dunin (Robert Więckiewicz) who is determined to foil his plans.
This screening will be introduced by Michael Brooke, a freelance writer specialising in central/eastern European cinema.Before the screening, he’ll be giving an extensively illustrated talk about the history of Polish black comedy, a particularly fertile seam given the national fondness for fatalism and sarcasm. Examples will include Andrzej Munk’s historical satires, Piotr Szulkin’s dystopian nightmares, Tomasz Konecki and Andrzej Saramonowicz's portraits of the modern Polish male, a cartoon hedgehog named Jerzy – and Paweł Maślona’s debut Panic Attack.
