WOJCIECH HAS RETROSPECTIVE / Kinoteka 2025

06 MARCH - 25 APRIL 2025

HAS Film Posters Exhibition / BFI & ICA Foyers / 1-26 April

01 Apr, 00:00
BFI Southbank

Accompanying this year's Wojciech Has film retrospective at the BFI and ICA, we are proud to present an exhibition of 16 original Polish posters of Has's films, curated by DI Factory, which will be on display in the BFI and ICA Foyers...

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The Saragossa Manuscript (BFI Screening)

Wojciech Jerzy Has

01 Apr, 18:40
BFI Southbank

One of the cultiest of all cult films, with a fan base that includes Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese and The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, this lavish, sprawling adaptation of Jan Potocki’s classic novel starts off as a lavish widescreen...

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The Noose

Wojciech Jerzy Has

02 Apr, 20:00
BFI Southbank

After a decade spent making mostly non-fiction short films, Wojciech Jerzy Has delivered one of the most powerful Polish feature debuts of the 1950s, adapted from a story by Marek Hłasko and staged in a baroque symbol-strewn style that...

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Description Found Years Later

Slawomir Rogowski, Stanislaw Zawislinski

03 Apr, 19:30
Ognisko Polskie - The Polish Hearth

A multi-dimensional attempt to delve into the life and touch the mystery of Wojciech Jerzy Has: a visionary, a total artist, a sophisticated stylist, and a creator of worlds. From The Noose to How to Be Loved and The Hourglass...

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Farewells

Wojciech Jerzy Has

04 Apr, 18:10
BFI Southbank

Born into an aristocratic family that he despises, Paweł (Tadeusz Janczar) impulsively runs off with taxi dancer Lidka (Maria Wachowiak), a fiercely independent-minded woman who knows how to put him and any other man firmly in his place;...

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How To Be Loved

Wojciech Jerzy Has

05 Apr, 18:30
ICA

On the eve of WWII, Felicja (Barbara Krafftówna) and Wiktor (Zbigniew Cybulski) star in a production of Hamlet – he’s an established star, she’s a hesitant debutant. But their relationship shifts radically he’s forced to go into hiding...

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The Codes

Wojciech Jerzy Has

06 Apr, 14:30
ICA

In an attempt to resolve various present-day problems, Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) searches obsessively for his son Jędrek, missing since WWII and probably dead, the “codes” of the title referring to tiny scraps of sometimes conflicting...

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One Room Tenants

Wojciech Jerzy Has

07 Apr, 20:45
BFI Southbank

At the turn of the 1930s, a group of students and self-styled artist-intellectuals shares a single room in a Warsaw tenement house because that’s all they can afford, while working out how they can fit into pre-WWII Polish society while...

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An Uneventful Story

Wojciech Jerzy Has

10 Apr, 18:30
ICA

Has’s first film in a decade was this wistful adaptation of a Chekhov short story, depicting a routine couple of days in the life of an elderly professor (Gustaw Holoubek) dealing with tedious professional and personal matters while...

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Goodbye to the Past + pre-recorded intro by Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film at Columbia University and author of Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has

Wojciech Jerzy Has

11 Apr, 20:50
BFI Southbank

Middle-aged actress Magdalena (Lidia Wysocka) returns to her home town for the first time in years to attend her grandfather’s funeral and receive her inheritance. But this inevitably involves dealing with people (including former...

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Short Film Programme/ Wojciech Has

Wojciech Jerzy Has

12 Apr, 14:30
ICA

The Birch Street (Ulica Brzozowa, 1947) Accordion (Harmonia, 1947) Steam Engine Pt-47 (Parowóz Pt 47, 1949) My City (Moje miasto, 1950) First Harvest (Pierwszy plon, 1950) - co-directed with Jan Zelnik Centralized Control of...

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The Doll

Wojciech Jerzy Has

12 Apr, 19:50
BFI Southbank

A big-budget widescreen adaptation of Bołeslaw Prus’s novel, this was Wojciech Has’s first colour feature. Former brewery clerk Stanisław Wokulski (Mariusz Dmochowski) has returned to late 1870s Warsaw after a prolonged exile in Siberia...

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The Saragossa Manuscript (ICA Screening)

Wojciech Jerzy Has

13 Apr, 14:30
ICA

One of the cultiest of all cult films, with a fan base that includes Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese and The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, this lavish, sprawling adaptation of Jan Potocki’s classic novel starts off as a lavish widescreen...

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Gold Dreams

Wojciech Jerzy Has

14 Apr, 20:50
BFI Southbank

A young man, Kazik (Władysław Kowalski) finds a job on a construction site in the mining town of Turów (“the end of the world”), far removed from the opulent settings of most of Has’s other films. Although Kazik tries to fit in with his...

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The Hourglass Sanatorium (BFI Screening)

Wojciech Jerzy Has

17 Apr, 18:00
BFI Southbank

An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan...

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Write and Fight

Wojciech Jerzy Has

19 Apr, 19:00
ICA

During WWI, three men share a prison cell: journalist Rafał (Wojciech Wysocki), notorious safecracker Szpicbródka (Zszisław Wardejn) and former monk Sykstus (Jan Peszek). While awaiting formal charges over publishing a satirical and...

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The Memoirs of a Sinner

Wojciech Jerzy Has

20 Apr, 18:00
ICA

James Hogg’s celebrated 1824 genre-bending novel could almost have been written as a source text for a Wojciech Has film. In a wittily cinematic substitute for the book’s manuscript being discovered by grave robbers nestling within its...

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Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

Wojciech Jerzy Has

22 Apr, 18:30
ICA

Wojciech Has’s final film (is set in 16th-century Germany, beset by plague and religious persecution and rocked by the introduction of printing as a means of disseminating subversive ideas. After fleeing the Inquisition, young Balthazar...

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Closing Night Gala - The Hourglass Sanatorium (ICA Screening) + LIVE MUSIC by the Bester Quartet + Grażyna Auguścik

Wojciech Jerzy Has

25 Apr, 18:30
ICA

An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan...

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