Edinburgh / Kinoteka 2026

04 FEBRUARY - 29 MARCH 2026

Programmes in Edinburgh

ASHES AND DIAMONDS

Andrzej Wajda

07 Mar, 15:30
Filmhouse

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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MAN OF IRON + INTRO

Andrzej Wajda

08 Mar, 16:30
Filmhouse

The Palme d’Or-winning follow-up to Man of Marble sees Winkel, a Communist-friendly radio journalist, charged with finding compromising information about a Solidarity opposition leader. But in witnessing protesting workers’ fight against...

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POSSESSION

Andrzej Żuławski

08 Mar, 20:00
Filmhouse

Possession emerged as the ‘loser’ of the unofficial duel of two Cannes 1982 competition entries by esteemed Eastern European masters. While Andrzej Wajda’s somber Man of Iron won the Palme d’Or, his onetime protégé’s ambitious body...

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INNOCENT SORCERERS

Andrzej Wajda

17 Mar, 18:00
Filmhouse

Following his lauded war trilogy, Wajda turned his camera on Poland’s socially modern but politically disengaged post-war generation. When hipster doctor Bazyli meets out-of-towner Pelagia in a nightclub, they spend a night in his flat...

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MAN OF MARBLE

Andrzej Wajda

24 Mar, 17:15
Filmhouse

In the 1970s, young filmmaker Agnieszka investigates the life of a 1950s bricklayer and worker’s hero. When she learns that the facts behind his story were suppressed, she has to decide whether to pursue the truth or not. Man of Marble...

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THE MAIDS OF WILKO

Andrzej Wajda

29 Mar, 18:00
Filmhouse

After the death of a close friend, Wiktor returns to a place of his youth. He reencourages a group of sisters with whom he spent an idyllic summer 15 years prior, discovering the extent to which their lives have changed. Wajda’s most...

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KATYN

Andrzej Wajda

31 Mar, 17:45
Filmhouse

Wajda focuses on personal stories and a wider human tragedy in this Oscar-nominated film, set against one of the most painful and politically sensitive topics in Polish history: the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish soldiers and...

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AFTERIMAGE

Andrzej Wajda

02 Apr, 18:00
Filmhouse

In his final film, Wajda returns to previously explored themes of personal and artistic resistance to an authoritarian state and ideology. Based on the life of avant-garde painter and theorist Władysław Strzemiński, the film chronicles...

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