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Dear cinephiles and cineastes, Undiscovered Masters of Polish Cinema It’s finally spring of 2017 and the time for focuses on Wanda Jakubowska (1907 – 1998) KINOTEKA to bloom! So this year, as always, one of the first and most historically the Polish Film Festival looks to provide important Polish female directors. She was a audiences with the type of magical escapism prisoner at Auschwitz, and when World War that can only be found in film, as well as II was over she made The Last Stage (1948) an opportunity for film-goers of different to recount her true story to the world. ICA nationalities to come together and discuss the screens this film as well as her psychological art and issues of the day. drama Encounters In The Dark (1960). The festival gets going on the 17th This year documentaries are at ICA and of March at Regent Street Cinema with a Regent Street Cinema, including User-Friendly screening of the late Andrzej Wajda’s final Death (2007), perfect for anyone who has film Afterimage, an insightful depiction of the morbid curiosity to learn about what Władysław Strzemiński, the avant-garde actually happens in a crematorium, The Man painter. Following on there will be a Q&A with Who Loved Women (2016), giving an insider’s Paweł Edelman and Michał Kwieciński. perspective on the world of modelling, and Then it’s time for the latest in New Something Better This Way Comes (2014), Polish Cinema at Regent Street Cinema and about a girl’s harsh life in the biggest junkyard ICA. Blindness (2016) by Ryszard Bugajski in Europe. chronicles the dark tale of a Stalinist criminal As always we’ve got some one-off who’s given the eerie nickname ‘Bloody Luna’, special screening events, including Janusz Bartosz M. Kowalski’s Playground (2016) Zaorski’s latest Generations (2016) at UCL. starts off as a sweet tale of a schoolgirl There’s also a kids friendly screening of crush, only to morph into something wholly Tomasz Szafrański’s family adventure movie unexpected, while The Lure (2015) is the Adventurer’s Club (2015) at POSK Jazz Café. fantastical tale of human-eating mermaids. KINOTEKA comes to an end once more Several of the screenings will be followed with the Closing Night Gala which takes place by Q&As with the directors and actors, so at Barbican Centre on the 5th of April. Art- stick around afterwards to get an insider’s rock sextet British Sea Power will be playing perspective. specially commissioned music alongside some KINOTEKA’s retrospective this year of the best Polish animation-shorts. A very belongs to none other than the great Andrzej unique event, it’s not one to be missed. Wajda. One of the most influential Polish And there’s more of course so read on! We filmmakers ever, in 2000 he was awarded an look forward to celebrating Polish films and honorary Oscar for five decades of directorial culture with you soon. achievements and then went on to work for almost another two decades. Barbican Centre, Marlena Lukasiak Close-Up Cinema and Calvert 22 Gallery Kinoteka Artistic Director and Producer present such classics as The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979) and Ashes Robert Szaniawski and Diamonds (1958). Polish Cultural Institute Director

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Agnieszka Lasota M u aciej St hr sp u eCIAL g ests Graduate of the Interior Design Faculty at the Stuhr is a theatre and film actor, known in Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and post- equal parts for his comic and dramatic turns. graduate studies at Istituto Europeo di Design He studied psychology before taking on in Milan. Working on the border of design and acting, something which is always apparent Ta i om sz Bag N´ ski He is said to have a bit of an obsession with new media, Lasota engages with a complex in the way that he explores each new role. Creator of animated films, special effects and death, which is most evident in his short analysis of the contemporary consumer He has forty-eight credits to his name, and story lines for computer games, Bagiński was documentary Declaration of Mortality (2010) society. The central, almost obsessively isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Most destined to be a forerunner of Polish new where he interviews Piotr Korczak, the recurring theme of her work is social relations recently he stars in Planet Single (2016) and media ever since he made his first filmThe legendary, ageing climber. Watch his latest in the rapidly changing world as well as new Polish series Belfer (2016). Hunt at the maths department of Warsaw thriller Red Spider as part of KINOTEKA 15. analysing ties in newly emerging society. University. His filmThe Cathedral (2002) R yszard Was´ ko was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Mica h ł KwieciN´ ski Hnoaan a P l k An artist working with photography, Animated Film and Fallen Art (2004) won a A producer and director for film and TV. He is An Oscar-nominated documentarian, Polak film, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, BAFTA for Best Short Animation. the founder and owner of Akson Studio, the is one the most successful Polish women installations and performance. Waśko studied hugely prosperous production company that working in the industry. She is also an at the Film School in Łódź, where he was B ritish Sea Power has worked with the likes of Andrzej Wajda, advocator for the case of homeless children a member of the seminal artists’ group, The indie-rock band from Brighton known Jerzy Skolimowski and Márta Mészáros to around the world, working with UNICEF. She Workshop of the Film Form. In the 1980s for their weird and wonderful lyrics and their name a few. His most recent directorial work, received critical acclaim for her documentary- he organised the international exhibition magnetic live performances. The band will the TV filmTomorrow We’re Going To The short The Children of Leningradsky (2005), Construction In Process in Łódź, and in the be on tour throughout the UK this April to Movies (2007), garnered much praise as well about the hardships of children’s lives in post- 1990s, he founded and curated the Museum of promote their sixth and latest studio album, as awards at the Polish Film and Shanghai Soviet Russia, as well as Something Better Artists operating in Łódź, New York, Tel Aviv, Let The Dancers Inherit The Party. Featuring International TV festivals. To Come (2014) which is featured as part of Berlin, Paris, Cardiff and Melbourne. Yan Scott Wilkinson on vocals/guitar, Neil Kinoteka this year. Hamilton Wilkinson on vocals/bass/guitar, P aweł Kwiek Hubert Woroniecki Martin Noble on guitar/keyboards, Matthew Co-founder and member of the Workshop Kao r l Radziszewski Woroniecki has been working in the fashion Wood on drums, Abi Fry on viola/keyboards of the Film Form. A pioneer of video art Works with film, photography, installations industry since 1989 as a photo producer and and Phil Sumner on keyboards/cornet/guitar. in Poland, Kwiek works in the fields of and creates interdisciplinary projects. His modelling agent. In 1992 he was the head of experimental film, video, photography and archive-based methodology spans across the women’s department for Glamour models, P aweł Edelman drawing, engaging with the disciplines of multiple cultural, historical, religious, social Paris. Last year he garnered great interest and One of the most versatile Polish philosophy, cybernetics, poetry and sociology. and gender references. Since 2005, he’s been acclaim for directing Casablancas: The Man cinematographers working today. He has Previously a lecturer at the Film School in publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, Who Loved Women, a documentary about the made films with such stylistically different Łódź as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts and is the founder of Queer Archives. life of John Casablancas, the founder of Elite directors as Władysław Pasikowski and in Warsaw. Model Management. Andrzej Wajda. He’s also one of the few Mica s h ł Ro a whose career has been successful both in B orys Lankosz A writer and director known for such works Zzu a Zak Poland, with films likeKatyń (2007) and Documentary and feature film maker, as Farba (1997), Silence (2001) and Scratch Writer and home-cook, Zak is the author of Tatarak (2009), and in America with films such Lankosz’s career began after graduating (2008). Most recently he collaborated with the popular Polska cookbook, which seeks as Ray (2004) and The Pianist (2002) which from the Film School in Łódź. His diploma Marcin Koszałka on Happiness Of The World to revitalise traditional Polish food and bring he garnered an Oscar nomination for. film Evolution (2002) garnered him much (2016) which was nominated for two awards it to a wider audience. Zak studied English, attention setting him up for the future. In at the Polish Film Festival and the Golden followed by History of Oriental and African M arcin Koszałka 2009 he released The Reverse, his first full Frog at Camerimage. Alongside filmmaking, Art: giving her a unique approach and interest Cinematographer, screenwriter, documentary length movie which enjoyed huge commercial Rosa lectures at the Krzysztof Kieślowski in the history of food and it's meaning in filmmaker and director, Koszałka has twenty- success as well as awards at Camerimage and Faculty of Radio and Television at the peoples' lives. The food she cooks is both seven awards to his name, and one of the the Moscow, Seattle and Warsaw International University of Silesia. modern and nostalgic, always rooted in the most well rounded careers in Polish cinema. Film festivals, to name a few. vast lands of Eastern Europe.

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PLANet SINGLE PLAYground Director: Mitja Okorn Director: Bartosz M. Kowalski Writers: Sam Akina, Urszula Antoniak Writers: Bartosz M. Kowalski, Stanisław Cast: Maciej Stuhr, Agnieszka Więdłocha Warwas Poland, 2016, 136 min Cast: Michalina Świstuń, Nicolas Przygoda, Przemysław Baliński Mitja Okorn brings something a little lighter Poland, 2016, 82 min to New Polish Cinema with Planet Single, a romantic comedy reminiscent of The Proposal Bartosz M. Kowalski presents a psychological Family Drama (2009) and How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days thriller in his latest film, Playground. The (2003). The story follows Tomek (Maciej story starts out innocently enough on the Robert Bolesto’s script takes the famous artistic Stuhr) a charismatic TV personality who gets last day of school before summer. Small town S AT 18 MARCH, 15:00 Beksiński family as inspiration and imagines any woman and anything he wants. He meets girl Gabrysia, played by Michalina Świstuń what the dynamic between the members Ania (Agnieszka Więdłocha) an introverted in her first film role, has a crush on a fellow R EGENT STREET CINEMA might have been. The head of the house, music teacher who’s looking for Mr. Right on classmate and decides that she can’t keep Zdzisław the gothic painter, video-records his a dating website. Tomek brings her onto his it to herself anymore. She manages to get family over twenty-eight years, through their talk-show and shows her how to open up and him to meet her in secret, but what was TTHE LAS FAMILY trails and tribulations, loves and deaths and be more discerning when meeting men. It’s supposed to be a declaration of love turns into Director: Jan P. Matuszyński tumultuous times with his menace-son, Tomasz, all going so well and he seems to be falling something wholly unexpected. The film has Writer: Robert Bolesto the acclaimed music journalist and translator. for her, that is until she does meet someone been nominated for awards at Camerimage Cast: Andrzej Seweryn, David Ogrodnik, The Last Family has garnered prizes across the online. and the London Film Festival, and Kowalski Aleksandra Konieczna board but most notably for Best Film at the won the prize for Best Debut Director at the Poland, 2016, 123 min Polish, Denver International and Lisbon & Estoril Screening followed by a Q&A with Maciej Stuhr Polish Film Festival. film festivals.

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BLIndness HAPPIness OF THE WORLD THE LURE ECCENTRICS, THE SUNNY SIDE OF Director: Ryszard Bugajski Director: Michał Rosa Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska THE STREET Writer: Ryszard Bugajski Writer: Michał Rosa Writer: Robert Bolesto Director: Janusz Majewski Cast: Maria Mamona, Małgorzata Zajączkowska, Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Mateusz Lickindorf, Cast: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszańska, Writer: Włodzimierz Kowalewski, Janusz Gajos, Marek Kalita Grzegorz Palkowski, Dariusz Chojnacki Kinga Preis Janusz Majewski Poland, 2016, 110 min Poland, 2016, 98 min Poland, 2015, 92 min Cast: Maciej Stuhr, Natalia Rybicka, Sonia Bohosiewicz Blindness is the true story of Julia Brystiger, The story of a journalist who travels to Silesia If you’re looking for something completely Poland, 2016, 112 min an infamous member of security in Stalinist in search of an author of guidebooks whom new and fantastical, then you can end your Poland. She had many nicknames throughout he admires. What he finds when he arrives is search here! Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s tale of Janusz Majewski’s latest film is a blast back to her time, but none more enduring than a house full of weird and wonderful residents, singer mermaids who feast on humans should the swinging 50s of Poland. It follows Fabian ‘Bloody Luna’, which came about due to the who each seem to live in their own fantastical do the trick. Follow Silver (Marta Mazurek) and (Maciej Stuhr) as he returns to Poland from particularly harsh way she would torture realities. Rosa’s film has been labelled Wes Golden (Michalina Olszańska) as they try to England and forms a swing band. It turns out prisoners. By the end of her life however, she Anderson-esque for its meticulously crafted carve out a new life for themselves on the dry to be much more successful than anyone had renounced Communism, found salvation in scenes and beautiful accompanying score. land of Warsaw’s music scene, whilst falling anticipated, especially once the beautiful and religion and begged forgiveness for her sins. So far Happiness of the World has been in love with fellow bandmates and resisting talented singer Modesta (Natalia Rybicka) joins Blindness was nominated for a Golden Frog nominated at Camerimage and has won the urge to eat them. The Lure has won eleven the band and falls in love with him. Soon the and a Golden Lion at Camerimage and the awards for Best Score and Best Set Decoration awards at international film festivals, most couple are living the high life as the king and Polish Film Festival respectively. at the Polish Film Festival. notably the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. queen of swing, but how long will they stay at the top before dreams of a more Western life Screening will be followed by a Q&A with start to muddy the waters? Michał Rosa

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Q&A Q&A S AT 18 MARCH, 17:30 S AT 18 MARCH, 15:20 R EGENT STREET CINEMA BA RBICAN ACASABL NCAS: THE MAN WHO SOMETHIng BETTER TO COME LOVED WOMEN Director: Hanna Polak Director: Hubert Woroniecki Writer: Hanna Polak Q&A Writer: Hubert Woroniecki Poland/Denmark/Japan/ Cast: John Casablancas, Giselle Bündchen, Netherlands/USA, 2014, 98 min Naomi Campbell thleril r France, 2016, 89 min A deeply touching documentary about the lives of the people who are forced to live in a THE RED SPIDER Loosely based on the serial killer (so-called The story of John Casablancas, the man who junkyard in Moscow. The Svalka is the biggest Director: Marcin Koszałka Vampire of Kraków) who tormented Poland introduced supermodels to the world. He wasteland in Europe and lies just thirteen Writers: Marcin Koszałka, Łukasz M. in the 60s, Koszałka’s directorial debut is started Elite Model Management in Paris in miles from the Kremlin. Inside the guarded Maciejewski more of a thriller than biopic, exploring the the 1970s which would turn out to be one of junkyard there’s a world unto itself, run by Cast: Filip Pławiak, Adam Woronowicz, evil tendencies of people and how they come the most successful and global names within mafia and inhabited by those who have no Julia Klijowska to be the worst versions of themselves. the fashion industry, and which saw the prospects. Polak filmed Yula for fourteen Poland/Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2015, 90 min Filip Pławiak stars as the curious Karol who rise of models such Cindy Crawford, Linda years, chronicling her life in the Svalka from finds the serial killer and unable to tear Evangelista, Giselle Bündchen and Naomi adolescence to adulthood. As the years himself away, begins to stalk him, eventually Cambell among many others. His life was filled moved on, Yula’s hope for a better life kept getting himself tangled in something he with glamour, beauty, success and material diminishing until she figured a way out. The really shouldn’t have. The Red Spider was happiness, and as much as Woroniecki’s film is director has won nine awards at international nominated ten times and has won four awards a colourful feast for the eye, we also see that film and documentary festivals. since its release. none of it would have been without hard work and perseverance. Followed by Q&A with Hanna Polak Screening followed by Q&A with Marcin Part of Chronic Youth Film Festival. Koszałka Followed by Q&A with Hubert Woroniecki Full details: barbican.org.uk

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SUCH A NICE BOY I GAVE BIRTH TO F iLM focus: Marcin Koszałka Director: Marcin Koszałka Writer: Marcin Koszałka Poland, 2000, 25 min

WED 22 MARCH, 20:20 Koszałka’s first credited piece is a short- CI nEMA 1 documentary about his own home life. At the ICA time of filming he was living with his parents r intro who would verbally abuse him everyday. The di CTOre director is a self-proclaimed neurotic, giving ADECL RATion OF IMMORTALITY the full credit for this to his upbringing and Director: Marcin Koszałka home life. He went on to make two follow-up Writer: Marcin Koszałka documentaries on the subject It Will Be All Poland, 2010, 29 min Right (2004) and Let’s Run Away From Her (2010) creating his own type of therapy and In this documentary Koszałka looks into even a career. The film won awards at the the life of one of Poland’s most renowned Kraków Film Festival and Prix Europa. mountain climbers ‘Mad’ Piotr Korczak. The interviews take place around the time the great mountaineer is coming towards the end of his career, painting a portrait of a man of ever-strong spirit, and yet a naturally ageing body. It’s about the quest for immortality, and coming to terms with the fact that it can never really be achieved. The short documentary won several awards including the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. ↑ Such A Nice Boy I Gave Birth To , 2000

A special screening of four important The World (2016). So far in his career most USER-FRIendLY DEATH documentaries from the boundary- of his auteur work has been short and full Director: Marcin Koszałka pushing filmmaker length documentaries, all of which, to at TILL IT HUrts Writer: Marcin Koszałka least a certain extent, deal with the sad Director: Marcin Koszałka Poland, 2007, 69 min With twenty-eight credits to his name since truths of life, and learning to live with them. Writer: Marcin Koszałka starting out in 2000, Marcin Koszałka is His three shorts including Such A Nice Boy I Poland, 2008, 24 min In this full-length documentary, Koszałka easily one of the most successful Polish Gave Birth To (2000) about his relationship takes a look at the people who work at a cinematographers working today. Known with his parents as well as Till It Hurts (2008) An in depth look at the relationship between a funeral parlour at Kędzierzyn-Koźle and a within the industry for his all-rounded interest concern themselves with one of his recurring 53 year-old man and his mother whom he lives body incineration centre in Czech Ostrava. and involvement in the production of his themes: the often irreparable damage that with. After years of life together without any The film shows what actually happens to films, he is often also credited as writer and an upbringing can have on a person. His outsiders, he meets a woman and falls in love. human bodies after death, while highlighting director, and at times editor. His hands-on main subject however is death and its ever- Needless to say this causes a rift between him the normalised, disaffected way in which approach along with his meticulous attention looming presence over life; highlighted here and his mother, as she is unwilling to let go of the employees go about their morbid jobs. to detail have made him a highly sought in Declaration Of Immortality (2010) and User- the way life has been. It’s a touching look at At the end of the day business is business, after collaborator. Koszałka has worked with Friendly Death (2007). familial love, how unshakeable it can be and and clients need to be kept happy. It was Borys Lankosz on The Reverse (2009), Jacek how emotionally abusive too. The tragicomedy nominated for the Best Central and Eastern Bromski on Entanglement (2011) and most Featuring an introduction from Marcin won several awards including the Golden Dove European Documentary award at the Jihlava recently with Michał Rosa on Happiness Of Koszałka at the Leipzig DOK Festival. International Documentary Film Festival.

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80s and 90s as Poland emerged from the communist era. Nevertheless, looking at her films now, especially the two showing in this year’s Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, it’s clear that Jakubowska was an extremely talented director, sometimes in spite of her ideological convictions, and sometimes because of them. Particularly evident is a dedication to depicting women’s lives, occasionally in extremis as in The Last Stage, ro uc although whether or not she could be called Id ntTION a feminist is debatable. TTHE LAS STAGE ENCOUNTERS IN THE DARK The Last Stage is in fact the first of Director: Wanda Jakubowska Director: Wanda Jakubowska what became a trio of films that Jakubowska Writers: Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider Writers: Stanisława Fleszarowa-Muskat, Wanda directed set in concentration camps, but Cast: Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gordon- Jakubowska, Hans Julius Wille more than that, it’s a massively important Górecka, Barbara Drapińska Cast: Zofia Słaboszowska, Horst Drinda film in cinema history by virtue of being Poland, 1948, 110 min Polish, 1960, 107 min directed by a witness to the horrors ↑ Wanda Jakubowska perpetrated in those extermination zones, Jakubowksa’s horrific semi-autobiographical Here Jakubowska looks at the Holocaust once and so soon after the events depicted; story of being taken prisoner at Auschwitz. more, but from the perspective of Polish slave the first of its kind. The authenticity and As she and the other prisoners await labourers made to work in a German man’s Wanda Jakubowska made 14 feature films in ethical rigour of its imagery exerted a huge for the Red Army to free them, we get a factory. There is a great sense of community a career spanning 50 years, yet apart from influence on Holocaust films that followed by glimpse of the reduced circumstances the that arises from the group over their shared the international acclaim greeting The Last better known directors, Spielberg included. women of Auschwitz had to live with, and experience and genuine affection for each Stage (1948), a Holocaust drama shot on Encounters in the Dark (1960), another the maltreatment they received even from other. At the centre of the story is Magdalena the site of the actual Auschwitz-Birkenau wartime tale, is arguably a subtler film, personnel who were prisoners themselves. (Zofia Słaboszowska), a classical pianist who concentration camp where Jakubowska had graced with a luminous performance by Zofia After Jakubowska’s release she returned to is also captured and forced to work. Her been an inmate, she is barely known outside Słaboszowska in the lead. Taken together, the concentration camps to shoot the film. It’s formal and reserved demeanour means that it her native Poland, or even nowadays in it. they suggest that Wanda Jakubowska’s said that the thought of documenting her time takes time for her to connect with the others, The reasons are complex, but generally to cinema of idealism, her commitment to at Auschwitz was one of the main things that however she does eventually and finds a new do with her unwavering allegiance to Soviet values of solidarity and altruism and her helped her get through the experience. Such kind of inspiration in her struggles and a new communism in the political sphere, and to rejection of materialism, might just be ripe a personal recollection of the atrocities has lease of life. socialist-realist aesthetics in cinema. Lauded for rediscovery and reassessment today. never before nor since been captured on film. in the 50s, her films fell out of fashion in the 60s and were vilified as propaganda in the By Kieron Corless Featuring an introduction from Kieron Corless

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Andrzej Wajda is one of the few filmmakers history, and through his films Wajda has allowed presented at Kinoteka, or in fact at any film audiences around the world to feel that. festival, who needs no introduction. His main For those who are already familiar with the focus has been to bring the stories and histories auteur’s work, welcome back. And for the new- of Poland to the big screen, and he is one of the comers, here’s one of the best foreign language rare auteurs who has managed to get the rest of filmmakers, don’t miss this opportunity to fill in the world to watch. With four Oscar nominations the gap in your movie knowledge. for Best Foreign Language Film and an Honor- Q&A ary Oscar for his achievements, the director’s EAFTeriMAG INNOCENT SORCERERS six-decade-long career is one of Poland’s most Director: Andrzej Wajda Director: Andrzej Wajda inspiring. Writers: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Mularczyk Writers: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Skolimowski Many of his films were labours of love Cast: Bogusław Linda, Zofia Wichłacz, Cast: Tadeusz Łomnicki, Krystyna because of the difficulties set before him, by the Bronisława Zamachowska Stypułkowska, Wanda Koczeska Communist censors office especially. In the 60s Poland, 2016, 98 min Poland, 1960, 87 min after his trilogy of war filmsA Generation (1955), Kanal (1957) and Ashes & Diamonds (1958) he Andrzej Wajda’s last feature is a biopic One of Wajda’s lighter works, this is the tale of began focusing on adaptations of Polish novels, about Władysław Strzemiński, the famous Bazyli (Tadeusz łomnicki) a handsome, young ensuring that his films would get made and, Polish avant-garde painter. As much as it’s doctor who is constantly being pursued by more importantly, reach their audience. He used a celebration of the brilliant work one man beautiful women, and is tired of it. He meets the restrictions from the government and the made, it also sheds light on the difficulties Pelagia (Krystyna Stypułkowska) yet another fictional content of the novels to comment on of Strzemiński’s life. He was cast out for his attractive woman who pushes herself onto the situation in his country in subtler ways. In views, lost his job, even had his artistic license him, or so it would appear. When they get to 1977 he made Man Of Marble, which was about revoked, and that’s only part of it. The film is his place though, instead of the usual activity standing up for workers’ rights and was Wajda’s Wajda’s commentary that any true artist will between the sheets, a connection ignites answer to the slight easing off of censorship at always be suffering in some way, whatever between the two as they talk, trying to discern the time. The film was regarded as having gone their situation may be. It won the Out of one another while at the same time keeping too far, and subsequently wasn’t released for Competition Special Jury Prize at the Polish themselves at bay. They part ways and for the four years. Film Festival last year. first time Bazyli feels that he wants to see her Wajda left behind a legacy of films that again. The only problem is she’s nowhere to portray his own country and its past in a truthful ↑ Andrzej Wajda Screening followed by a Q&A with be found… way for the rest of the world to see. Oftentimes Paweł Edelman and Michał Kwieciński it isn’t pretty or adoring, and he was censored Sadly, Andrzej Wajda passed away on the just as so many other Polish filmmakers have 9th of October 2016. We commemorate his life been. Yet there is a catharsis that comes in and legacy in the screenings of some of his most acknowledging the darker parts of one’s own enduring films.

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AMAN OF M RBLE MAN OF IRON OTHE PR MISED LAND A GENERATion Director: Andrzej Wajda Director: Andrzej Wajda Director: Andrzej Wajda Director: Andrzej Wajda Writer: Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Writer: Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski Writers: Stanisław Reymont, Andrzej Wajda Writer: Bohdan Czeszco Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Cast: Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzyńska, Tadeusz Łomnicki Marian Opania Andrzej Seweryn Tadeusz Janczar Poland, 1977, 160 min Poland, 1981, 156 min Poland, 1975, 179 min Poland, 1955, 83 min

A young film student in 1970s Kraków is Following on from Man of Marble (1977) and A startling commentary about the ugly Wajda’s first full length film is a heartfelt look working on her diploma film. She focuses on the story of Mateusz Birkut’s heroism, is the side of capitalism. Three unlikely friends at the effect of war on the adolescents who the life of a bricklayer from the 1950s, Mateusz story of his son, Maciej Birkut. A journalist is band together to start a factory business in are moulded in it and how it sets their entire Birkut, who became a proletariat hero by tasked with finding out what’s really going on Łodz during the manufacturing revolution. lives on a needless path of suffering. Stach advocating for workers’ rights and housing with Maciej, the leader of the striking shipyard Though the trio is successful after many (Tadeusz Łomnicki) is a young man working as for everyone. Her supervisor doesn’t approve workers. Being young and radical himself, the obstacles, struggles and swindles, it comes an apprentice on the outskirts of Warsaw when of the subject, makes his excuses and halts journalist fits in easily with the organisation he at the price of their morals and happiness. a Communist leader in hiding recruits him to the film’s production. Now she needs to find a is trying to infiltrate. In fact he fits in so well, Wajda’s message that money and power are fight for the cause. The story follows as he gets way to finish it somehow. Looking at the story believing himself in the idea of workers’ rights, not always worth other sacrifices, still carries more and more involved, kills a Nazi, falls in of one man’s heroism from the perspective of that he’s forced to pick between his career today. The Promised Land was nominated love, and watches helplessly as his love gets one woman’s passion project, Wajda outlines and following his heart. The film won the for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, taken away from him. the bravery of humanity, and how with each Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for and won awards at the Moscow International, generation there will always be something Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Valladolid International and Polish film worth standing up for. The film won the festivals. FIPRESCI prize at Cannes as well as the Critics award at the Polish Film Festival.

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KANAL ASHES AND DIAMONDS Director: Andrzej Wajda Director: Andrzej Wajda Writer: Jerzy Stefan Stawiński Writers: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda Cast: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Wacław Wieńczysław Gliński Zastrzeżyński, Adam Pawlikowski Kinoteka and KinoVino partner up to bring you a screening of Andrzej Wajda’s The Maids Poland, 1957, 91 min Poland, 1958, 103 min of Wilko, followed by a dinner for ticket holders created by renowned Polish food writer and cook, Zuza Zak. Kanal is the frustrating story of a group of One of the few war stories to begin on the forty-three men and women fighting during last day of a war. Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) THE MAIds OF WILKO The film was nominated for Best Foreign the last days of the Warsaw Uprising against is ordered to assassinate Szczuka (Wacław Director: Andrzej Wajda Language Film at the 1980 Oscars. the Nazis in World War II. After struggling for Zastrzeżyński), and though he has killed many Writer: Zbigniew Kamiński so long as a united force, the resistance and during the war, Szczuka is not an easy one for Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, KinoVino is a cinema-supper club, that brings their Lieutenant Zadra (Wieńczysław Gliński) Maciek, who has come to respect him. During Maja Komorowska together some of the best chefs and films are finally reduced to fleeing via the sewer the war Polish men stood together despite Poland/France, 1979, 118 min from around the world. Each edition offers system. Will they find the peace they yearn for coming from the working, bourgeois and noble film screenings and sit-down dinners with at the other end of the tunnel? One of Wajda’s classes. Now that it’s over people will begin Set in the stylish 20s, the story follows Viktor unique menus inspired by the films, creating an first films, it was nominated for a BAFTA for to resume their former identities, but perhaps (Daniel Olbrychski), a successful young man, immersive experience that is shared between Most Promising Newcomer to Film, as well as not all of their former prejudices. The film was who none-the-less decides to take some time an intimate group of guests. Upon arrival the Palme d’Or at Cannes. nominated for a BAFTA and won the FIPRESCI off work to process the death of a friend. guests are treated to welcome drinks and light prize at the Venice Film Festival. He goes back to his home town, where he bites that are thematically tied to the film. The encounters a family of five women he left welcome session is followed by a screening behind, all of whom were in love with him at itself, while the chefs prepare the meal ‘behind some point. Life has moved on since he left the movie screen’, enhancing the viewing though, feelings have changed and not all of experience with luscious scents of food. After the women are available anymore. If you’re the screening guests proceed to the dinning a Jane Austen fan then this is one for you. room, where beautiful long tables await.

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Arton Review Adding context to these latest productions ADVEnturer’S CLUB A film about Kornel, a boy whose whole world is a presentation of the seminal film and Director: Tomasz Szafrański is turned upside down when one night a Arton Review is a project by the Arton video works created by outstanding Polish Writer: Tomasz Szafrański mysterious figure climbs through the window Foundation in Warsaw in which Polish avant-garde artists in the 1970s: Wojciech Cast: Kamila Bujalska, Franciszek Dziduch, into his room. It turns out to be his crazy artists of the younger generation create Bruszewski, Paweł Kwiek, Ryszard Waśko, Ewa Gorzelak uncle Dionizy who claims to be on the trail of film works inspired by the classics of Polish and more. Poland, 2015, 98 min a family treasure hidden by their grandfather experimental filmmaking and video art. during the war. The search for the ancient The programme within KINOTEKA features Accompanied by a discussion on inter- family chest, supposed to contain important works commissioned by Arton to date, such generational artistic collaborations, the event clues on the whereabouts of the hidden as Telepathy by Łukasz Jastrubczak, The features artists in attendance Paweł Kwiek, treasure, sets them off on a wild quest full of Line by Agnieszka Lasota and ID Agnieszka Lasota, Karol Radziszewski, and dangers, romance, mystery and unexpected by Karol Radziszewski, amongst others. Ryszard Waśko, as well as curators Łukasz reversals… What was supposed to be just a Mojsak and Marika Kuźmicz holiday trip becomes a life-changing journey.

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MON 20 MARCH, 18:30 SU N 26 MARCH, 15:30 GUS TAVE TUCK U CL CAMPUS LECTURE THEATRE R EGENT STREET CINEMA

talk GENER ATions KOS A ´Ciuszko T THE BATTLE OF RACŁAWICE Director: Janusz Zaorski Director: Joseph Lejtes Writer: Janusz Zaorski Writer: Wacław Gąsiorowski Now Cast: Łukasz Jaczewski Cast: Tadeusz Białoszczyński, Jerzy Pichelski is the time Poland, 2016, 105 min Poland, 1938, 92 min Generations is a full-length docudrama made To celebrate the year of Tadeusz Kościuszko for the anniversary of Feature Film Studios we present a historical film about the Battle of to reclaim (WFF). The Studio produced some four- Racławice, which was one of the first battles hundred and fifty titles, and of those Zaorski of the Kościuszko Uprising against Russia. your Polish selected the fragments of just under fifty to The Poles were attacked on two sides by the tell the story of contemporary Poland. The Russians, yet they managed to sustain a victory fragments of films, starting with Andrzej with the help of some two-thousand peasants citizenship Wajda’s A Generation (1955) and on to the from the Lesser Poland area who were armed works of Chęciński, Has, Kutz, Polański and with war scythes and pikes. Though the battle further still to Holland, Kieślowski, Marczewski, was a small victory, it was lauded as a great Zanussi, form a story about Poles from the step forward, which helped to get other areas times of the Nazi occupation, through to of Poland involved in the Uprising. The director, the period of Stalinist terror, the unfulfilled Joseph Lejtes, was nominated three times polaron.eu expectations of the Gierek Era, Martial Law throughout his career for the Golden Lion and the elections of June 4th 1989. award at the Venice Film Festival. tel: 07544 45 99 09 Screening introduced and followed by a discussion on historical memory.

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29 – 31 MARCH london film academy & BFI SOUTHBANK

KINOTEKA & London Film Academy with a focus on the art of adaptation. During sTUDIO 2017 the course of the programme there will be multiple opportunities for participants to An intensive 3-day programme aimed at network with film /TV industry professionals. THRh U 30 Marc , 18:30 directors, writers and creative producers The programme is free for the selected NFT 3 with proven experience (credits on shorts or participants, but you will need to cover BFI SOUTHBANK first low-budget features) who are adapting any accommodation and travel expenses source material for the screen / working (participants from Poland will have their travel Ta om sz BagiN´ski Masterclass animated film on a computer in the maths on an adaptation project. The ten selected and accommodation covered by the Polish department at the university where his father filmmakers will participate in Q&As, practical Cultural Institute in London). Oscar-nominated animator, director and master worked, then enrolling at the Film School in lectures, workshops and masterclasses with of digital SFX Tomasz Bagiński received the Łódź only to find that he was ahead of their industry professionals. Previous speakers For details on how to apply please visit BAFTA for Best Short Animation in 2006 for curve, and enrolling again in an architecture include: Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness), londonfilmacademy.com/news-and-events/ Fallen Art. His skills in blending live action course while teaching himself computer Ivana MacKinnon (Slumdog Millionaire), Paweł events with animation have made him sought after animation in his spare time, it’s easy to see that Pawlikowski (Ida), Ben Blaine (Nina Forever), in advertising, TV and gaming. Currently he’s Bagiński is truly a person who had to form his Will Tennant (Imaginarium Studios, Star Wars: Application deadline 4pm on 1 March 2017 working on directing the feature film adaptation own path to knowledge and success. We’re The Force Awakens). Participants will have of The Witcher 3 video-game set for release delighted to invite him to discuss his acclaimed the opportunity to polish their skills in story later this year. Starting off by making his first cross-platform work. development, pitching and film financing,

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live music WEDR 5 AP IL, 20:00 BA RBICAN HALL

kinoteka 15 Closing night gala Stairs, Dumała’s Little Black Riding Hood, Oraczewska’s Banquet and Borowczyk’s School. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of KINOTEKA The event coincides with the premiere of British Polish Film Festival, the Polish Cultural Institute Sea Power’s long-awaited new album, in London and the Barbican Centre present Let The Dancers Inherit The Party followed by a a unique, specially commissioned show by UK tour, including a London gig on 12 April 2017 much loved art rock sextet British Sea Power at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. playing live to the screenings of some of the best animation shorts from Poland. The British Sea Power are: favourites of Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Yan Scott Wilkinson – vocals/guitar Radcliffe and Peter Capaldi, British Sea Power Neil Hamilton Wilkinson – vocals/bass/guitar will take you on a personal journey through Martin Noble – guitar/keyboards their own selection of Polish animations they Matthew Wood – drums themselves admire, including Rybczyński’s Abi Fry – viola/keyboards Tango, Szczechura’s Journey, Schabenbeck’s Phil Sumner – keyboards/cornet/guitar

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Sunday 19 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com calenda r of events 19:30 Happiness Of The World dir. Michał Rosa. Q&A with director and Karolina Gruszka

Monday 20 March POLISH HISTORY IN FILM UCL Campus kinoteka.org.uk 18:30 Generations dir. Janusz Zaorski Friday 17 March OPENING NIGHT GALA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com 19:00 Afterimage dir. Andrzej Wajda Tuesday 21 March NEW POLISH CINEMA ICA ica.org.uk Q&A with Paweł Edelman and Michał 18:30 The Red Spider dir. Marcin Koszałka Kwieciński Q&A with the director

Wednesday 22 March DOCUMENTARY ICA ica.org.uk 20:20 Film Focus: Marcin Koszałka

Saturday 18 March ARTS Whitechapel Gallery whitechapelgallery.org 13:30 Arton Review

Friday 24 March ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Close-Up Cinema closeupfilmcentre.com 19:30 Innocent Sorcerers dir. Andrzej Wajda

Saturday 25 March ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Close-Up Cinema closeupfilmcentre.com Saturday 18 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com 16:00 Man Of Marble dir. Andrzej Wajda 15:00 The Last Family dir. Jan Matuszyński Saturday 25 March ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Close-Up Cinema closeupfilmcentre.com Saturday 18 March DOCUMENTARY Barbican barbican.org.uk 19:00 Man Of Iron dir. Andrzej Wajda 15:20 Something Better To Come dir. Hanna Polak Sunday 26 March POLISH HISTORY IN FILM Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com Q&A with Hanna Polak 15:30 Kościuszko At The Battle Of Racławice dir. Janusz Zaorski Saturday 18 March DOCUMENTARY Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com 17:30 Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Sunday 26 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com Women dir. Hubert Woroniecki 17:30 The Lure dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Saturday 18 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com Sunday 26 March ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Close-Up Cinema closeupfilmcentre.com 20:00 Planet Single dir. Mitja Okorn 19:00 The Promised Land Q&A with director and Maciej Stuhr dir. Andrzej Wajda

Sunday 19 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com Sunday 26 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com 15:00 Playground dir. Bartoks M. Kowalski 19:30 Eccentrics, The Sunny Side Of The Street dir. Janusz Majewski Sunday 19 March NEW POLISH CINEMA Regent Street Cinema regentstreetcinema.com 17:00 Blindness dir. Ryszard Bugajski 29 – 31 March TALKS & EVENTS London Film Academy londonfilmacademy.com Q&A with the director Kinoteka Studio

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Thursday 30 March TALKS & EVENTS BFI Southbank bfi.org.uk 18:30 Tomasz Bagiński Masterclass Vn e ue informATION Friday 31 March ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Calvert 22 Foundation calvert22.org 18:00 The Maids Of Wilko dir. Andrzej Wajda Followed by KinoVino

Saturday 1 April UNDISCOVERED MASTERS ICA ica.org.uk 16:00 The Last Stage Barbican BFI Southbank Close-Up Cinema dir. Wanda Jakubowska Silk Street Belvedere Road 97 Sclater Street London EC2Y 8DS London SE1 8XT London E1 6HR 020 7638 4141 020 7928 3232 020 3784 7970 barbican.org.uk bfi.org.uk closeupfilmcentre.com

Sunday 2 April KIDS Jazz Café POSK jazzcafeposk.org 14:00 Adventurer’s Club dir. Tomasz Szafrański ICA Regent Street Cinema Whitechapel Gallery The Mall 309 Regent Street 77 – 82 Whitechapel High St Sunday 2 April ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Barbican barbican.org.uk London SW1Y 5AH London W1B 2UW London E1 7QX 15:45 A Generation dir. Andrzej Wajda 020 7930 3647 020 7911 5050 020 7522 7888 ica.org.uk regentstreetcinema.com whitechapelgallery.org Sunday 2 April UNDISCOVERED MASTERS ICA ica.org.uk 18:15 Encounters In The Dark dir. Wanda Jakubowska

Monday 3 April ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Barbican barbican.org.uk 18:30 Kanal dir. Andrzej Wajda

Tuesday 4 April ANDRZEJ WAJDA RETRO Barbican barbican.org.uk Calvert 22 Foundation London Film Academy UCL 18:30 Ashes And Diamonds 22 Calvert Avenue The Old Church Gower Street dir. Andrzej Wajda London E2 7JP 52a Walham Grove London WC1E 6BT

Wednesday 5 April CLOSING NIGHT GALA Barbican barbican.org.uk 020 7613 2141 London SW6 1QR 020 7679 2000 20:00 British Sea Power: Music for calvert22.org 020 7386 7711 ucl.ac.uk Polish Animation Classics londonfilmacademy.com Screening accompanied by live music from British Sea Power

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Festial v Production Team With Special Thanks Robert Szaniawski H.E. Arkady Rzegocki, Polish Ambassador Polish Cultural Institute Director Agnieszka Gabriel, The Polish Bakery Marlena Lukasiak Alissa Timoshkina, KinoVino Kinoteka Artistic Director and Producer Anna MacDonald, London Film Academy Marta de Zuniga Anna Sienkiewicz –Rogowska, Filmoteka Polish Cultural Institute Deputy Director Narodowa Agnieszka Ciepłucha, Karolina Kołodziej Bartek Nowak, POSK Head of PR and Marketing Bryn Ormrod, Barbican Dobrosława Świtalska Cezary Molski, Polish Tourist Organisation Fundraising Damien Sanville, Close-Up Darek Tomaszewski Eva Hussein, Polaron Logistics and Guest Support Gali Gold, Barbican Anna Gruszka Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery Music Events Programmer and Producer Gioele Camarlinghi, Melia White House Paulina Latham Helen de Witt, BFI Southbank Events Coordinator Jan Kubik, UCL SSEES Richard Greenhill Jan Woroniecki, Baltic Restaurant Project Assistant Julie Pearce, BFI Southbank Hein van Thiel, Lebara Design and Publicity Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz, Polish Film Institute Luke Gould Katarzyna Zachenter, UCL SSEES Design & Art Direction Katarzyna Zielińska, Polaron Tomasz Opasińskii Krystyna Bell, POSK Poster / cover artwork Lisa Cognacci, UCL SSEES Kamil Dobrosielski Louise Jeffreys, Barbican Festival Trailer Łukasz Mojsak Quay Brothers Maciej Kornacki, Filmoteka Narodowa Festival Ident Magdalena Sroka, Polish Film Institute May-Grace Nahas Maggi Hurt, BFI Southbank Copy-writer and Editor Maria Sikora, UK Jewish Film Festival Margaret_London Marika Kuźmicz PR Michael Etherton, UK Jewish Film Festival serieseight.com Nick Cook, Melia White House Festival website Nico Marzano, ICA dot-studio.org Robert Rider, Barbican Merchandise Sebastian Stern, BFI Southbank Shira MacLeod, Regent Street Cinema Urszula Chowaniec, UCL SSEES

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