Leicester / Kinoteka 2026

04 FEBRUARY - 29 MARCH 2026

Programmes in Leicester

ASHES AND DIAMONDS

Andrzej Wajda

04 May, 18:15
Phoenix

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 MARBLE

Andrzej Wajda

10 May, 15:00
Phoenix

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

17 May, 14:15
Phoenix

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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AFTERIMAGE

Andrzej Wajda

25 May, 18:15
Phoenix

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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MAN OF IRON

Andrzej Wajda

31 May, 14:30
Phoenix

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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