screenings

• SILENT LAND

  Agnieszka Woszczyńska

  09 Mar, 18:30
  ICA
  After arriving at a holiday villa on an Italian island, bourgeois couple Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) discover that the swimming pool is empty. The migrant worker sent to fix it suffers a deadly poolside...
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• NIGHTSSS

  Sandra Frydrysiak, Weronika Lewandowska

  10 Mar, 14:00
  ICA
  Virtual reality (or VR) is taking leaps and bounds in the world of cinema. This technology, which refers to a simulated experience of reality, transmitted through a headset, enables artists and directors alike to explore the spatial...
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• LEAVE NO TRACES

  Jan P. Matuszyński

  10 Mar, 18:10
  ICA
  In 1983, communist Poland is still under martial law. After being arrested and beaten by the police, Grzegorz Przemyk, son of the opposition poet Barbara Sadowska (Sandra Korzeniak), dies. The only witness, Jurek Popiel (Tomasz Ziętek),...
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• How to be Loved

  Wojciech Jerzy Has

  11 Mar, 00:00
  BFI Player
  From Wojciech Jerzy Has, the director of the dazzling The Saragossa Manuscript, this early low key work (presented in the Cannes competition) from his Polish Film School period explores the effects of WW2 on the Polish psyche. Adapted...
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• Without Love

  Barbara Sass

  11 Mar, 00:00
  BFI Player
  Winning the award for best directorial feature debut at the Polish Film Festival in 1980 Without Love marked the arrival of the distinct talent of Barbara Sass. Positioning strong, independent contemporary women centre stage,...
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• The Young Ladies of Wilko

  Andrzej Wajda

  11 Mar, 00:00
  BFI Player
  Having received his first major break as an actor with (the now internationally renowned) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski continued to appear in his films and took the lead in this elegiac tale of 1920s Poland. Often described as...
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