09 MARCH - 03 APRIL 2022

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  • 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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  • 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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  • BACK THEN

    Kinga Dębska

    12 Mar, 18:00
    Prince Charles Cinema
    In the communist period, schoolgirl Marta shares a room with her sister and grandmother (Ewa Wiśniewska). Her parents – moonshine-making intellectual Tadek (Adam Woronowicz) and workplace trade union leader Elżbieta (Kinga Preis) – are...
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  • THE IN-LAWS

    Jakub Michalczuk

    13 Mar, 18:00
    Riverside Studios
    After the bride and groom break up at the last minute, the wedding reception goes ahead – owing to its expensive cost. While the guests drink and make merry, simmering tensions emerge between the in-laws of the would-be newlyweds:...
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  • A WOMAN AT NIGHT

    Rafał Kapeliński

    15 Mar, 20:30
    Riverside Studios
    New to London and in need of money, Chinese migrant Yiling Li (Jennifer Tao) spends her nights illegally showing people around the former flat of notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Across the course of her nocturnal activities, she...
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  • OTHER PEOPLE

    Aleksandra Terpińska

    16 Mar, 18:30
    Prince Charles Cinema
    Iwona (Sonia Bohosiewicz) and Kamil (Jacek Beler) seem to live worlds apart. She is married, but bored and unhappy with her middle-class, credit-fuelled life of luxury. He tries to earn a living writing rap lyrics, lives in his mother’s...
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  • SONATA

    Bartosz Blaschke

    17 Mar, 17:40
    Prince Charles Cinema
    As a child, Grzegorz Płonka (Michał Sikorski) struggles to communicate, leading to a diagnosis of autism. It later turns out that he is experiencing hearing loss. With the help of a hearing aid, Grzegorz discovers the world of sound and...
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  • 25 YEARS OF INNOCENCE

    Jan Holoubek

    19 Mar, 15:00
    Riverside Studios
    The life of 23-year-old Tomasz Komenda (Piotr Trojan) is upended when he is arrested and charged with the rape and murder of a teenager. After being found guilty, he is sentenced to 25 years in prison, where he is regularly beaten and...
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  • THE DEATH OF ZYGIELBOJM

    Ryszard Brylski

    23 Mar, 20:00
    JW3
    In May 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm (Wojciech Mecwaldowski), a member of the Polish government-in-exile, commits suicide in London. This leads young British journalist Adam (Jack Roth) to follow the coroner’s investigation, in doing so...
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  • Back to Those Days

    Konrad Aksinowicz

    24 Mar, 18:40
    JW3
    After the collapse of communism, Alek (Maciej Stuhr) migrates from Wrocław to the US, leaving his son Tomek (Teodor Koziar) to live alone with mother Helena (Weronika Książkiewicz). One day, Alek unexpectedly returns home with gifts for...
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  • BACK THEN

    Kinga Dębska

    30 Mar, 20:45
    Edinburgh Filmhouse
    In the communist period, schoolgirl Marta shares a room with her sister and grandmother (Ewa Wiśniewska). Her parents – moonshine-making intellectual Tadek (Adam Woronowicz) and workplace trade union leader Elżbieta (Kinga Preis) – are...
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  • THE IN-LAWS

    Jakub Michalczuk

    31 Mar, 20:45
    Edinburgh Filmhouse
    After the bride and groom break up at the last minute, the wedding reception goes ahead – owing to its expensive cost. While the guests drink and make merry, simmering tensions emerge between the in-laws of the would-be newlyweds:...
    Read more
  • SONATA

    Bartosz Blaschke

    03 Apr, 20:30
    Edinburgh Filmhouse
    As a child, Grzegorz Płonka (Michał Sikorski) struggles to communicate, leading to a diagnosis of autism. It later turns out that he is experiencing hearing loss. With the help of a hearing aid, Grzegorz discovers the world of sound and...
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