Andrzej Wajda Retrospective at ICA / Kinoteka 2026

04 FEBRUARY - 29 MARCH 2026

DANTON + INTRO

Andrzej Wajda

08 Mar, 18:30
ICA

Danton wasn’t Andrzej Wajda’s first brush with Stanisława Przybyszewska’s seminal work of Polish political theatre, Danton’s Case (1929), which he first directed for the stage in 1975 at Teatr Powszechny, to rave reviews. The 1981 Palme...

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A GENERATION + WHILE YOUR ARE SLEEPING

Andrzej Wajda

15 Mar, 14:00
ICA

Set in 1942, on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Wajda’s striking feature debut centres on Stach, and a group of young, anti-German underground fighters, as they prepare for a new mission. The film not only established Wajda as a...

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KANAL

Andrzej Wajda

18 Mar, 20:30
BFI Southbank

A unit of Polish freedom fighters goes underground to escape German troops, in the final stages of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Wajda’s claustrophobic, nightmarish masterpiece employs haunting images to convey their struggle as they journey...

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ASHES AND DIAMONDS

Andrzej Wajda

19 Mar, 20:40
ICA

In the last days of the Second World War, Maciek, a Polish resistance fighter, is tasked with the assassination of a Communist official. When he meets Krystyna, he is offered a glimpse of a world beyond war and destruction, and questions...

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PILATE AND THE OTHERS

Andrzej Wajda

24 Mar, 20:40
ICA

Made for West-German television in 1972, this loose adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's cult novel The Master and Margarita (published posthumously in 1967) is perhaps the most experimental feature in Andrzej Wajda's oeuvre. The film stages...

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LOVE IN GERMANY

Andrzej Wajda

26 Mar, 20:40
ICA

Based on a novel by Rolf Hochhuth (and co-scripted by Agnieszka Holland), this surprising entry in Andrzej Wajda's body of work made outside of his native Poland is a full-scale melodrama of sensual obsession, sometimes compared to the...

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