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the brochure - Andrzej Wajda -
w Polish Ci ne m a
TheN e13th
polish film festival
FESTIVAL GUIDE
8 april— 29 may 2015 1
In London at the BFI Southbank,
ICA, Tate Modern and more...
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contents
WELCOME TO KINOTEKA 13!
Welcome to KINOTEKA 13!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
This year KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival
returns to the capital for an extended bumper
13th edition. Encompassing all aspects of Polish
film culture, an enticing mix of film, music
and visual arts is on offer with an outstanding
selection of screenings, UK premieres, curated
retrospectives, exhibitions, concerts, interactive
workshops and industry masterclasses with
special guests.
KINOTEKA is partnering with Filmhouse
Edinburgh and BFI Southbank on an exciting
new collaboration for the UK tour of Martin
Scorsese Presents Masterpieces Of
Polish Cinema: 24 masterpieces, chosen
by Scorsese himself, all brilliantly restored
and digitally remastered to 2K resolution.
The season showcases films made during
a particularly fertile and creative time in
post-war Poland by directors such as Andrzej
Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy
Kawalerowicz, Wojciech J. Has, Aleksander
Ford, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and others. The
UK season launches at KINOTEKA’s Opening
Night Gala on 8th April at BFI Southbank
with a screening of Camouflage, with director
Krzysztof Zanussi in attendance.
The ICA plays host to KINOTEKA’s New
Polish Cinema strand from 10th April with
a selection of both popular and critically
acclaimed contemporary Polish films from the
past year. The strand includes the UK premieres
of the festival special guest Krzysztof Zanussi’s
Foreign Body and Jerzy Stuhr’s Citizen. The
latest film from KINOTEKA favourite Wojciech
Smarzowski (Traffic Department, The Dark
House) The Mighty Angel will be presented
alongside one of the year’s most interesting
directorial debuts, Krzysztof Skonieczny’s
Hardkor Disko.
KINOTEKA showcases the breadth of
original, innovative documentary that has come
out of Poland. Oscar©-winning filmmaker Paweł
Special Guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SCREENINGS & EVENTS
Opening Night Gala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
New Polish Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Documentary Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Polish Cinema Classics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Martin Scorsese Presents... Talks & Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cinema Meets Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Poster Exhibition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Music Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Talks and Workshops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Closing Night Gala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Kinoteka on Tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
C A L E N D A R & b o o k ing
Calendar of Events, Booking & Venues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Credits & Thanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Organised by
Supported by
Co-financed by
In partnership with
Pawlikowski will present a special weekend
of screenings of his acclaimed documentaries
at the ICA (18th / 19th April), including From
Moscow to Pietushki and Dostoevsky’s Travels.
Wojciech Wiszniewski Rediscovered
at the ICA on 12th April celebrates the short
career of influential documentarian Wojciech
Wiszniewski. He made just 12 films in total
before his premature death at the age of 34.
He is now considered to be one of the most
outstanding personalities of his generation.
The documentary strand also celebrates
the work of emerging Polish documentary
filmmakers who studied at the Wajda Film
School and who have both been Oscar®
nominated for this year’s Best Documentary
Short Film category.
In conjunction with 'Martin Scorsese
Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema',
KINOTEKA and BFI Southbank will host an
exhibition of original poster artwork celebrating
the films of renowned director Andrzej Wajda.
Tate Modern will screen The Performer, a
dynamic story full of punk energy based on the
life of Oskar Dawicki one of the most original
contemporary Polish artists currently working.
This year KINOTEKA will draw to a close
with a special screening of cult Polish comedy
The Cruise (Rejs, 1970), marking Second Run’s
release of the film on DVD. Taking inspiration
from the film, festivities continue with a
boat ride on the Thames for a 70’s-themed
interactive, improvised performance created
by immersive UK theatre group Gideon Reeling.
We hope you will enjoy all the events
during the 13th KINOTEKA and we look
forward to seeing you there.
Anna Godlewska
Polish Cultural Institute Director
Marlena Lukasiak
Kinoteka Programmer and Producer
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special guests
OSK AR DAWI CKI (born 1971)
Polish multimedia artist, his work includes
performance art, video works, photography,
documentation, objects and installations. All
of his works have a post-conceptual character
and emanate a slightly grotesque, ironic and
even absurd aura. He introduces into his
works a romantically tragic component, highly
saturated with his own existential dilemmas.
In his video works he uses ironic self-reflection
(I’m sorry, 2005).
band of the legendary Polish trumpeter Tomasz
Stańko. Wania, last year’s double winner of
prestigious Fryderyk Polish music award, is one
of the most important jazz musicians of young
generation in Poland.
M I CHAŁ O LESZCZYK (born 1982)
G ideo n Reeling
A London based group of artists that make
interesting, made to measure and truly
interactive theatrical experiences. They invite
their audiences to become players, participants
and adventurers through their stories, with fresh,
imaginative and highly varied word. And at the
heart of what they do is a sense of inclusive
playfulness and a sensitivity to the level that
audiences are comfortable to be immersed into
their imaginary worlds.
SŁAWO M I R I DZIAK (born 1945)
Polish cinematographer, known for his
collaboration with Krzysztof Zanussi with
whom he has made 14 films. He worked on
all the early films of Krzysztof Kieślowski,
including Three Colours: Blue. In 1998 he won
an Honourable Mention at the 48th Berlin
International Film Festival for his work for
Michael Winterbottom’s I Want You. In 2002
he was nominated for the Academy Award
as well as the BAFTA award for Best Cinematography in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down.
KU BA M I KU RDA (born 1981)
Polish journalist, film expert, doctor of
Philosophy. Deputy Head of Canal+ TV, cofounder of think-tank 'Restart’. Cooperates
Sławomir Idziak
with T-Mobile New Horizons International
Film Festival. The winner of Polish edition of
International Young Screen Entrepreneur of
the Year organized by British Council. Together
with Michał Oleszczyk published an interview
with Quay Brothers and Guy Maddin. He has
translated, edited and prefaced books on Terry
Gilliam and Tsai Ming-liang.
O bara I nternati o nal
A fresh and unique project on the European
jazz scene that has already been internationally
recognised. Its leader Maciej Obara, Polish
composer and alto saxophonist, is undeniably
one of the brightest and most acclaimed
musicians of the young Polish jazz scene. Since
2012 Obara has been touring extensively around
the world presenting his music at the most
important jazz festivals, such as London Jazz,
Molde Jazz, Tokyo Jazz, Jarasum Jazz, Jazz
Souls Les Pommiers, Akbank Jazz, Skopje Jazz
and many others. Obara met his fellow pianist
Dominik Wania while playing together in the
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Internationally acclaimed Polish film expert
and critic, scholar, and translator based in
Warsaw. He contributes to RogerEbert.com
and works as the artistic director of Gdynia
Film Festival, as well as a programmer for
Polish Filmmakers NYC. He wrote the first
Polish book on the work of Terence Davies and
has contributed to a number of Polish outlets
('Kino', 'FilmWeb', 'Dwutygodnik'). He runs a
blog at oleszczyk.blogspot.com. Co-author
of published interviews (together with Jakub
Mikurda) with Guy Maddin and Quay Brothers.
PAWEŁ PAWLI KOWSKI (born 1957)
Oscar®-winning Polish/British film director who
has lived and worked most of his life in the UK.
His films Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of
Love (2004) both won the BAFTA award. His
low budget black-and-white drama Ida (2013)
won the 2015 Oscars® Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film and BAFTA Award for
Best Film Not In the English Language, and was
nominated for the Oscars® Academy Award for
Achievement in Cinematography.
JACEK PETRYCKI (born 1948)
Cinematographer, director and screenwriter.
He collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski,
Marcel Łoziński and Agnieszka Holland. In 1996
he received a BAFTA award for Photography
for Clive Gordon’s Betrayed. He was also
nominated for the Polish Film Award 'Orły'
for Photography for Mariusz Malec’s Człowiek
wózków.
KRZYSZTO F PI ESI EWI CZ (born 1945)
Polish screenwriter, lawyer, advocate and
politician. Co-author of award winning
screenplays for 17 films directed by Krzysztof
Kieślowski, including Three Colours: Blue
(1993), Three Colours: White (1994), Three
Colours: Red (1994), No End (1985) and The
Double Life of Veronique (1991). His screenplay
for Three Colours: Red was nominated for the
Academy Award in 1995. His screenplays were
translated into ten languages and published
as books. He is a Member of the American
Academy of Motion Pictures.
ŁU K ASZ RO N D U DA (born 1976)
Polish film director, writer, curator at the Center
for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, curator at the
Archive of Polish Experimental Film and New
Media Project, academic lecturer on history
of art, media theory and aesthetic theory, both
at Polish and foreign universities, including
Princeton University and Columbia University
in New York. He was a curator of exhibitions
Analogue: Polish video art from the 70s and
80s (Tate Modern, London 2006), and 1, 2, 3…
Awangarda (Tate Modern, London 2008) .
EU G EN I USZ RU D N I K (born 1932)
Ida, 2013
Multi award-winning Polish composer,
electronics engineer and sound engineer.
Pioneer of electronic and electro-acoustic
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music in Poland. He was one of the first
Polish electro-acoustic music producers
and co-founder of the so-called 'Polish
school of electro-acoustic music' and author
of innovative solutions of spatial sound
projection, composer of Skalary (1966). He
was also author of the one of the world’s
first poliversional tracks to tape, and the first
Polish quadraphonic track Vox Humana (1968),
carried out in Studio WDR in Cologne.
(Melville House 2014). From 1995 – 2001, he
hosted his own talk show. Together with
Wojciech Tochman and Paweł Goźliński, he
runs the Polish Reportage Institute in Warsaw.
PI OTR SOBO CI ŃSKI (born 1983)
Polish cinematographer. Nominated for an
'Orły' for Best Photography at the 2012 Polish
Film Award, for Wojciech Smarzowski’s Rose.
His work includes photography for the most
important Polish productions of recent years:
Wojciech Smarzowski’s Traffic Department
(2013), Ryszard Bugajski’s The Closed Circuit
(2013), Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (2014).
WITO LD SOBO CI ŃSKI (born 1929)
Polish cinematographer, academic teacher
and former jazz musician. He cooperated with
several notable directors, including Andrzej
Wajda (Promised Land, 1975; The Shadow Line,
1976), Krzysztof Zanussi (Family Life, 1970)
and Roman Polański (Frantic, 1988; Pirates,
1986). Since 1980 he has been a lecturer at the
Film School in Łódź. Sobociński was awarded
several prizes; he also co-produced a number
of notable movies.
Gottland. Mostly True Stories
from Half of Czechoslovakia, 2014
KRZYSZTO F ZAN USSI (born 1939)
Polish film director, screenwriter, producer
and actor. One of the most famous and award
winning Polish artists abroad. He received the
Jury Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for Constans/
The Constant Factor (1980). He was also the
recipient of four Venice Film Festival awards
for: Imperativ (1982, Best Film), Imperativ
(1982, Special Jury Prize), A Year of the Quiet
Sun (1984, Best Film) and A Year of the Quiet
Sun (1984, Golden Lion).
MARI USZ SZCZYG I EŁ (born 1966)
Polish reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza since
1990 and one of Europe’s most preeminent
investigative journalists. He is the recipient of
numerous awards for his writing on Poland
and Czechoslovakia, including the Europe
Book Prize and the Prix l’Amphi for Gottland.
Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
The Constant Factor, 1980
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Ope n ing Nig ht Gala
opening night gala
G AL A S C R EE N IN G
WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL
6.00PM ——bfi nft 1
Krzysztof Zanussi is known for exploring the
complexity of moral choices and metaphysical
questions in everyday life. We’re delighted that
this award-winning director, screenwriter and
producer will join us in conversation, following
a screening of his film Camouflage to launch
the 13th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival and the
'Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of
Polish Cinema' programme in the UK.
CAMOUFL AGE
(BARW Y OCHRONNE)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz,
Christine Paul
Poland, 1976, 101 min
A linguistics competition at a university’s
summer camp is the backdrop for a wittily
satirical drama about the elusiveness of
language. An idealistic teacher and his
manipulative older colleague assess not only
each entry’s intrinsic merit, but also whether
it ticks sufficient official boxes to be prize
worthy – an experience Polish filmmakers
were all too ruefully familiar with.
For other Camouflage screenings as part of
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish
Cinema series please see page 22
Opening Gala
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FRIDAY 10 APRIL
SATURDAY 11 APRIL
6.30PM —— ICA
4.30PM —— ICA
the MIGHT Y ANGEL
HARDKOR DISKO
Dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
Cast: Robert Więckiewicz, Julia Kijowska
Poland, 2014, 105 min
The Mighty Angel joins a long line of cinematic
masterpieces that focus on alcoholic writers,
including The Lost Weekend (1945) and
Leaving Las Vegas (1995). Jerzy is a talented
writer with a massive drinking problem. He
checks into a rehabilitation clinic regularly,
only to relapse again each time. When he falls
in love with a young woman he decides to quit
drinking for her sake, but he fails again. After
another night of drinking at the bar called
'The Mighty Angel', he ends up in intensive care
and finally back at the rehabilitation clinic.
Dir. Krzysztof Skonieczny
Cast: Marcin Kowalczyk, Janusz Chabior
Poland, 2014, 85 min
In a modern-day metropolis, Marcin, a
mysterious lone ranger, steps into the younger
Ola’s world, which revolves around parties,
alcohol, and drugs. Having met her parvenu
parents, he starts to take terrifying steps. Made
on a small budget this completely professionallooking film has divided audiences and critics
alike, with some hailing the arrival of a new
directorial talent and naming Hardkor Disko
as one of the most interesting Polish debuts
in recent years.
SATURDAY 11 APRIL
8.20PM —— ICA
CITIZEN
SUNDAY 12 APRIL
7.50pM —— ICA
FOREIGN BODY
Dir. Jerzy Stuhr
Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Maciej Stuhr,
Sonia Bohosiewicz
Poland, 2014, 108 min
The newest picture of Jerzy Stuhr shows sixty
years of an ‘average citizen’ with many events
from the modern history of Poland including
1956, March 1968, 1970, martial law, the first
free elections and free Poland up until the year
2014. The film tells the story of Jan Bratek who
regretfully always finds himself at the heart
of events and becomes entangled in a plot
of absurd circumstances and unpredictable
events – not helped by his own clumsiness.
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Agata Buzek
Poland / Italy, 2014, 117 min
Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in the Focolare
Movement where their love and faith in God
brought them together. Their relationship is
broken by the girl’s return to Poland and her
decision to enter a convent. Angelo arrives in
Warsaw in order to persuade Kasia to change
her mind. The company that employs him is
managed by ruthless and cynical Kris with the
support of her assistant Mira. In this corporate
reality Angelo, a believer, falls victim to ridicule
and harassment. Kris, using her power, plays
with Angelo and wants to force him to break
his moral principles, and yet at the same time
is fascinated by his faith.
Followed by a Q&A with Krzysztof Zanussi
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DOCUMENTARIES
SPECIAL TALK & screening
2015 oscar-nominated shorts
DO UB LE -B IL L
FRIDAY 24 APRIL
TA LK & SC RE EN IN G
7.00PM —— frontline club
GOTTL AND
Dir. Lukáš Kokeš, Petr Hátle, Viera
Čákanyová, Rozálie Kohoutová, Klára Tasovská,
Radovan Síbrt
Czech Republic / Poland / Slovakia
2014, 100 min
After reading his prize-winning book about
their compatriots, a group of young Czech
filmmakers approached the Polish author,
Mariusz Szczygieł, to ask for his thoughts and
advice for their film projects based on five of
the true stories he tells in it. Szczygieł replied
that for a film-maker, the best author is a dead,
or at least a silent one, and that he would
prefer to leave them to interpret his stories in
their own way. The result is a film in five very
different parts, each episode a spin-off from
Szczygieł’s originals, rather than a retelling.
This event combines the literary and the
cinematic versions, presenting a screening of
the film preceded by a discussion with Mariusz
Szczygieł about the source of inspiration for
his moving and at times shocking accounts
of the life stories of the film star who was
Goebbels’ mistress, the despotic founder of a
shoe-making empire, the sculptor who lost his
life creating the world’s biggest monument to
Stalin, the writer who reinvented himself for
political survival, and the 'human torch' who
copied Jan Palach’s fateful gesture as recently
as 2003.
Screening preceded by a discussion with
Mariusz Szczygieł
SATURDAY 11 APRIL
6.30PM —— ICA
JOANNA
OS CA R NO M IN EE
Dir. Aneta Kopacz
Poland, 2013, 45 min
Thanks to her blog, Joanna has become an
icon to many people across Poland, a symbol
of strength in the face of adversity. The blog
describes her daily life simply and honestly,
recounting days spent with her family at the
lake, the joy of seeing her son's first successful
bike ride and the day-to-day struggles of
living with terminal cancer. The blog first
began when Joanna was diagnosed and given
just three months to live. This tender portrait
follows Joanna in her attempts to prepare her
family for a world without her in it.
OUR CURSE
Dir. Tomasz Śliwiński
Poland, 2014, 27 min
This painfully sincere short documentary
portrays the parents of a baby boy born with
a rare and incurable disease. Leo HueckelŚliwiński is affected by Ondince’s Curse.
The illness causes the complete cessation
of breathing while he is asleep, meaning he
must be attached to a ventilator for the rest
of his life.
FOLLOWED BY:
In partnership with Czech Centre London
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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
WOJCIECH WISZNIEWSKI REDISCOVERED
SUNDAY 12 APRIL
4.00pm — ica
Wojciech Wiszniewski has been regarded
as the most radical representative of the
so-called ‘creational’ movement in Polish
documentary of the 70’s. This school
renounced the documentary attributes such
as: cognitive passivity and minimalism of form
and putting film maker as a mere observer
and recorder of reality with a use of the
fraction of available means of expression.
Today ‘creational’ documentaries are fully
accepted and acknowledged, however in
the 70s that was still a new territory, where
breaking the conventions by employing
bold techniques of framing, distorting sound
and methaphoric use of editing, special
effects and most of all orchestrating scenes
and creating the reality before the camera
was a huge novelity.
Wiszniewski was a pioneer of these
approach and even though his film legacy
consists of only 10 short films made before
he died at the age of 35, he became one of
the most influential Polish documentary
directors and the ‘filmmaker of filmmakers’.
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HEART ATTACK
1967, 7 min
Wiszniewski’s first undergraduate film which won an
award at Oberhausen. We are
observing the main character
driving a car through expressionistic photography (by
Slawomir Idziak), hardcore
jazz and associative editing.
A STORY OF A MAN
WHO FILLED 552 % OF
THE QUOTA
1973, 25 min
Bernard Bugdoł is a miner
and legendary leader of
socialist labour in the 40’s
and 50’s. Showing few signs
of artistic intervention, this
film consists of commentaries by Bugdoł himself, other
miners, his wife and children,
interspersed with fragments
from a variety of socialist
realist material.
communicate and perceive
the world and traditions.
Tradition is dead, communications between people have
become ossified; we know all
the letters of the alphabet
but cannot put them into the
sentences which would
express our true selves.
THE CARPENTER
1976, 13 min
The film features a fictional
character whose curriculum
vitae (Wiszniewski’s own
creation read by Jan
Himilsbach) is illustrated by
genuine footage showing
historical events. The carpenter appears to be completely
indifferent to politics, to him
political changes are meaningful only if they have
WANDA GOŚCIMIŃSKA.
A WEAVER
1975, 21 min
About a female socialist
leader and weaver from Łódź.
The weaver’s life is thrown
onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war
communist Poland. The allegorical and symbolic imagery
illustrates subsequent periods
of history and draws from
socialist realism iconography.
THE PRIMER
1976, 9 min
Portrayal of the state of the
Polish soul in the mid 70s.
The reciated primer symbolizes a key to the way people
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demand for woodwork.
FOREMAN ON A FARM
1978, 14 min
Portrait of a real person presented through a storyline
which alludes to folk art
poetics and is commented
off-screen with a witty but
bitter song. A retired miner,
who moves with his family to the country to start
his own business, suffers a
defeat, rejected by the local
community. The fiasco of the
stereotypes perpetuated by
1970s propaganda.
Introduction by Jacek
Petrycki, renowned
Director of Photography
and friend of Wiszniewski
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Docu me ntaries
DOCUMENTARY Special
PaweŁ pawlikowski documentaries
DO UB LE -B IL L
SATURDAY 18 april
6.00PM —— ICA
FROM MOSCOW TO PiETUSHKI
FO LLOWED BY:
DOSTOEVSK Y’S TR AVELS
Emmy International. Pawlikowski’s distinctive
mixing of facts with elements of the personal
and poetic has challenged the boundaries of
the television documentary and influenced his
later cinematic work.
KINOTEKA invites you to a weekend with
Paweł Pawlikowski and his documentaries: a
journey into the tragi-comic and absurd life
of characters including Vladimir Zhirinovsky
or the only living descendant of Fyodor
Dostoevsky.
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Screenings supported by DocHouse
6.00PM —— ICA
Highly original and most formally constructed
film Serbian Epics (1992) was made at the
height of the Bosnian war, using the siege of
Sarayevo as its central image. It includes close
up footage of Bosnian Serb politician Radovan
Karadžic and General Ratko Mladič, both later
wanted by the international court of justice
for war crimes. This multi-layered, ironic,
imagistic and at times almost hypnotic study
of myth-making and murder aroused a storm
of controversy, including questions in the house
of commons, at the time of its broadcast.
FO LLOWED BY:
Dmitri Dostoevsky, Leningrad tram driver and
great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, travels
to western Europe following the footsteps of
his great-grandfather's own journey in 1862.
Dmitri hopes his efforts will help him realise his
dream of owning a Mercedes.
Introduction by Paweł Pawlikowski
SUNDAY 19 april
SERBIAN EPICS
From Moscow to Pietushki is a poetic journey
into the world of the Russian cult writer
Venedikt Yerofeev, as he is slowly dying
of cancer after 40 years of principled and
heroic alcohol consumption. Pawlikowski uses
elements of Yerofeev's cult novel Moscow
Pietushki to paint a powerful and complex
picture of Russia of the time. The film won an
Emmy and Royal Television Society Award
among others.
To celebrate the recent successes of Paweł
Pawlikowski’s Ida, winner of this year Oscars®
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film Not In the
English Language, and Oscar® nominee for
Achievement in Cinematography, KINOTEKA
presents a programme of documentary films
which commenced Pawlikowski’s career in
filmmaking. These highly poetic and imagistic
pieces won him fans and awards around the
world, including the Grierson Award and
DO UB LE -B IL L
TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSK Y
Tripping with Zhirinovsky, is a surreal boat
journey down the Volga with the Russian
nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky and
his retinue, as he campaigns to win the Russian
presidency in 1994. He travels from Moscow
to the Caspian Sea, trying to raise the spirits
of the impoverished masses assembled at the
quayside, promising the re-conquest of Alaska,
access to the Indian Ocean and free nylon
stockings. The film won the Grierson award for
the Best British Documentary in 1995.
Followed by a Q&A with Paweł Pawlikowski
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Polish Ci ne m a Classics
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Polish Ci ne m a Classics
polish cinema CLASSICS
special EDITION dvd boxset
& film screeningS
WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL
6.00PM—— bfi
nft 1
CAMOUFL AGE
(BARW Y OCHRONNE)
Kinoteka Polish Film Festival and the Polish
Cultural Institute in London continue their
collaboration and association with Second
Run DVD to release a third volume of their
acclaimed and successful POLISH CINEMA
CLASSICS series. This 3-DVD set includes
three of the finest Polish films of the 1970s
and 90s – including newly restored versions
of Krzysztof Zanussi’s 1976 film C A MOUF L AGE
(Barwy ochronne), Wojciech Marczewski's
SHI V ERS (Dreszcze) and Polish cult classic T HE
CRUISE (Rejs). All three films are presented
from new HD digital transfers with restored
picture and sound and feature new English
subtitle translations.
We are delighted that both Camouflage
and The Cruise will screen during Kinoteka
2015, book-ending the Festival as opening
(Camouflage – 8 April) and closing-night
(The Cruise – 29 May) screening events.
Second Run's Polish Cinema Classics Volume III
DVD Box Set will be released in May 2015.
To find out more visit:
www.secondrundvd.com
www.polishculture.org.uk
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SUNDAY 29 MAY
6.30pm —— ICA
THE CRUISE
(REJS)
Written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
Cinematography: Edward Kłosiński
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Christine Paul-Podlasky,
Poland, 1976, 97 min
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Camouflage was one of
the founding works of Poland’s 'cinema of
moral concern'. With a background in physics,
Zanussi brought a unique sensibility to Polish
cinema - observant and analytical, humane
yet utterly unsentimental in probing of the
characters’ weaknesses and self-deceptions.
Camouflage is regarded as one of his finest
achievements, and takes place during a
University summer seminar that functions as
a microcosm of the power games played in
business, politics, or any other arena based
on hierarchy and advancement. Jarek is an
idealistic junior faculty member who comes
under the influence of Jakub, a Machiavellian
professor whose attachment to the younger
man is ambiguous. Is he nurturing him as a
young talent or seeking ways to destroy him?
Directed by Marek Piwowski
Photography: Marek Nowicki
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Cast: Stanisław Tym, Jolanta Lothe,
Wanda Stanisławska-Lothe
Poland, 1970, 65 min
Regarded as Polish cinema’s first ‘cult film’,
Piwowski’s The Cruise is also considered
by many to be a satirical masterpiece. Shot
in a quasi-documentary style, with a cast
featuring mostly non- professional actors, the
absurd plot parodies life in the (then) People's
Republic of Poland, reducing a weekend
river cruise to a hilarious satire of the entire
Communist system.
Piwowski's gift of observation, his sense
of humour and an acute awareness of national
pathology have made The Cruise one of
Poland’s most popular and widely-known
films of the 1970s.
Followed by a cruise on the Thames with
Maciej Obara International and Gideon Reeling.
See page 41 for details.
Followed by a Q&A with Krzysztof Zanussi
For other Camouflage screenings see page 22
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MARTIN SCORSESE
PRESENTS
MASTERPIECES
OF POLISH CINEMA
This year Kinoteka is delighted to host Martin
Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish
Cinema, a selection of 24 of the legendary
director's favourite Polish films of the 20th
Century, to be screened across April and May.
To introduce the series, film critic and
writer Michael Brooke talks us through the
collection and its historical relevance...
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PART 1: APRIL
Polish cinema seemed to come out
of nowhere. After a painful period of
reconstruction post-WWII and the abolition of
a creatively stifling policy of Socialist Realism,
the country’s filmmakers were more than
ready to spread their wings. They did so to
spectacular effect from the late 50s onwards,
exploring Poland’s war-torn landscapes, the
more fantastical worlds of the imagination
and, as the cracks began to show towards the
end of the 70s, the ‘moral anxiety’ of existing
within a corrupt Communist society that few
Poles actively supported.
Every film in this two-part season, curated
by Martin Scorsese and screening in pristine
digital restoration, is regarded as a classic at
home. Some already enjoy that status here,
but others are undeservedly littleknown;
Masterpieces of Polish Cinema hopes to
change that.
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CAMOUFL AGE
(BARW Y OCHRONNE)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew
Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul
Poland, 1976, 101 min
A linguistics competition at
a university’s summer camp
is the backdrop for a wittily
satirical drama about the
elusiveness of language.
An idealistic teacher and
his more manipulative older
colleague assess not only
each entry’s intrinsic merit,
but also whether it ticks
sufficientofficial boxes to be
prizeworthy – an experience
Polish filmmakers were all
too ruefully familiar with.
8 April screening will be
followed by a Q&A with the
director, Krzysztof Zanussi
Wednesday 8 April, 6.00pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Tuesday 14 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
ILLUMINATION
(ILUMINACJA)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Stanisław Latałło, Monika
Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska,
Małgorzata Pritulak
Poland, 1972, 93 min
This dazzlingly original filmessay combines an intensely
intimate portrait of a young
would-be scientist with
a quizzical analysis of his
sincere (if fumbling and naive)
attempts at grasping the very
meaning of life. Its frequent
scholarly digressions into both
art and science anticipated
Peter Greenaway by many
years.
9 April screening will be
introduced by the director,
Krzysztof Zanussi
Thursday 9 April, 6.15pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Sunday 12 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
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THE CONSTANT FACTOR
(CONSTANS)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki,
Zofia Mrozowska, Małgorzata
Zajączkowska
Poland, 1980, 91 min
A man obsessed by the
impending death of his
mother and a dream of
climbing mountains retreats
into mathematics, trying to
discover a ‘constant factor’
that will make sense of the
world’s apparently random
capriciousness. It’s one of
Zanussi’s most mordantly
clear-eyed films about the
moral challenges posed by
trying to maintain a normal life
in a corrupt bureaucracy.
9 April screening will be
introduced by the director,
Krzysztof Zanussi
Thursday 9 April, 8.50pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Sunday 12 April, 6.20pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
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EROICA
(EROICA)
Dir. Andrzej Munk
Cast: Edward Dziewoński,
Kazimierz Rudzki, Barbara
Połomska
Poland, 1957, 81 min
Black comedies about WWII
were understandably thin
on the ground in post-war
Poland, but this brilliantly
incisive two-part dissection of
‘courage’ and ‘valour’ offers
a decidedly subversive take
on the traditional image of
Polish heroism. In the first
half, a hapless incompetent
becomes a Resistance hero; in
the second, Polish POWs are
anything but keen to escape.
23 April screening will be
introduced by Dr César
Ballester, Senior Film Lecturer
Monday 13 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Thursday 23 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
BLIND CHANCE
(PRZYPADEK)
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cast: Bogusław Linda, Tadeusz
Łomnicki, Zbigniew
Zapasiewicz
Poland, 1981, 123 min
Banned for years for getting
too close to the political
knuckle, Kieślowski’s threepart narrative hinges on
whether medical student
Witek catches a train, and
on what happens afterwards.
Will he be recruited by
the government, become
a political protester, or
continue studying in neutral
isolation? And can he control
these outcomes, or is his life
dictated by fate?
Tuesday 14 April, 6.00pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Saturday 18 April, 6.10pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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A SHORT FILM ABOUT
KILLING (KRÓTKI
FILM O ZABIJANIU)
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cast: Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof
Globisz, Jan Tesarz
Poland, 1987, 86 min
A grimly confrontational study
of the protracted process of
ending someone’s life,
whether through casual
murder or meticulously
calibrated execution.
Kieślowski’s masterpiece
contributed to a national
debate that ultimately ended
capital punishment in Poland.
Cinematographer Sławomir
Idziak’s inspired use of bilious
coloured filters turns 1980s
Warsaw into a living hell.
15 April screening will be
followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Wednesday 15 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Saturday 18 April, 8.50pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Friday 24 April, 6.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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KNIGHTS OF THE
BL ACK CROSS
(KRZYŻ ACY)
Dir. Aleksander Ford
Cast: Urszula Modrzyńska,
Grażyna Staniszewska, Andrzej
Szaławski, Władysław Kowalski
Poland,1960, 165 min
One of Poland’s biggest
hits, this lavish widescreen
epic was based on Henryk
Sienkiewicz’s much-loved
novel The Teutonic Knights.
Set at the turn of the 15th
century, it depicts the tension
between the Poles and
Lithuanians and their Teutonic
neighbours, culminating in a
thrilling reconstruction of the
1410 Battle of Grunwald (a
pivotal event in Polish history)
which featured thousands of
extras.
16 April screening will be
introduced by critic and
filmmaker Kuba Mikurda
Thursday 16 April, 8.00pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Sunday 26 April, 4.40pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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THE SAR AGOSSA
MANUSCRIPT
(RE˛KOPIS ZNALEZIONY
W SAR AGOSSIE)
THE HOURGL ASS
SANATORIUM
(SANATORIUM POD
KLEPSYDR A˛ )
Dir. Wojciech J. Has
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski,
Iga Cembrzyńska, Elżbieta
Czyżewska
Poland, 1964, 184 min
You wouldn’t expect a riproaring widescreen Napoleonic
adventure crammed with
duels, damsels and cryptic
manuscripts to be the
favourite film of the Grateful
Dead’s Jerry Garcia. But this is
actually one of the great 1960s
‘head-trips’ – an adaptation
of Count Jan Potocki’s
legendarily labyrinthine 1814
novel into a bewildering but
exhilarating lattice of stories
within stories within stories.
Dir Wojciech J. Has
Cast: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz
Kondrat, Irena Orska
Poland, 1973, 125 min
A hallucinatory head-swiveller
of a film, which turns Bruno
Schulz’s novella into a
floridly baroque journey of
a man visiting a mysterious
sanatorium. He enters a world
based as much on his anxieties
and long-buried memories
as it is on objective reality, a
world crammed with exotic
birds, mechanical automata of
historical figures and haunting
images of Poland’s nowvanished Jewish past.
Monday 20 April, 7.40pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Saturday 25 April, 7.30pm,
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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30 April screening will be
introduced by film expert
Michael Goddard
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JUMP
(SALTO)
Dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Jerzy
Block, Włodzimierz Boruński
Poland, 1965, 105 min
In this rich and subtle dreamplay a man arrives in a small
country town and demands
sanctuary from an unspecified
threat, but who is he, why
do people remember him
differently, and can he really
perform miracles? Many
Poles consider this Cybulski’s
greatest performance and he’s
on riveting form, especially
when performing a ‘salto’ folk
dance towards the end of the
film.
Saturday 25 April, 6.20pm
BFI Southbank, NFT 2
+
Tuesday 28 April, 8.50pm
BFI Southbank, NFT 3
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TO KILL THIS LOVE
(TRZEBA ZABIĆ TE˛
MIŁOŚĆ)
THE L AST DAYS
OF SUMMER
(OSTATNI DZIEŃ L ATA)
Dir. Janusz Morgenstern
Cast: Jadwiga JankowskaCieślak, Andrzej Malec,
Władysław Kowalski
Poland, 1972, 97 min
Magda and Andrzej are young
lovers in early 1970s Poland,
notionally a socialist paradise,
in reality anything but as they
find themselves constantly
buffeted by official obstacles
and supposedly non-existent
class barriers as they try to
find a place to live together.
The film was formally criticised
for its pessimism, but the
feeling was very much shared
by its audience.
Dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
Cast: Irena Laskowska,
JanMachulski
Poland, 1958, 62 min
Already an important novelist,
Konwicki used his position as
the Kadr Film Unit’s literary
advisor to make his directing
debut for a tiny budget, with
no script and a cast of two –
a revolutionary gesture at a
time of rigorously pre-vetted
projects. A man and a woman
meet on a deserted beach,
their obvious attraction
undermined by traumatic
wartime memories.
Sunday 26 April, 3.15pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Wednesday 29 April, 8.45pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
Tuesday 21 April, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Thursday 30 April, 8.20pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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Sunday 26 April, 8.50pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Tuesday 28 April, 6.20pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
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NIGHT TR AIN
(POCIA˛G)
part 2: MAY
The retrospective continues with a closer look at
some of Poland’s greatest postwar directors.
A dozen more Polish film classics, some familiar,
but others much rarer, says Michael Brooke:
When Polish cinema first made an international
splash in the late 1950s, it was headlined
by the work of Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy
Kawalerowicz, who each had long and
fascinating careers (Wajda’s continuing to this
day) that consistently took the temperature
not only of Polish cinema but also wider
national issues – Wajda’s Man of Iron is also
a key document of the Solidarity upheavals.
But their contribution to their national film
culture went well beyond their own films. As
the head of the Kadr Film Unit, Kawalerowicz
also produced many Polish cinema classics
(including more than a third of the films in
this two-part season), while Wajda mentored
numerous younger talents at a very early
stage of their careers, including future giants
Roman Polański, Jerzy Skolimowski and
Agnieszka Holland, each represented here
by a key early work.
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Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast: Lucyna Winnicka,
Leon Niemczyk, Teresa
Szmigielówna
Poland, 1959, 93 min
Psychological thriller about
the passengers on an
overnight Baltic express.
A sleeper train rockets
through the night, its
passengers possibly including
a murderer. Although
this isn’t quite as overtly
Hitchcockian as that sounds,
as Kawalerowicz was primarily
interested in the quirks that
people show in artificial
social environments. Leon
Niemczyk (Knife in the Water)
and the director’s wife Ludyna
Winnicka are strangers
sharing a compartment while
studiously hiding personal
secrets.
Saturday 2 May, 6.10pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Saturday 9 May, 8.45pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
MAN OF IRON
(CZŁOWIEK Z ŻEL AZA)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz,
Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Poland, 1981, 147 min
Andrzej Wajda’s masterly
study of the excitement of
the Solidarity years. As the
Solidarity protests swelled
in 1980, Wajda grabbed
camera and crew, pulled
ready-made characters off
the shelf (from his earlier Man
of Marble) and filmed this
story of government-backed
espionage against a real-life
backdrop of world-changing
history unfolding: even Lech
Wałęsa has a cameo. It won
both the Palme d’Or and a
domestic ban when martial
law was declared in 1981.
Sunday 3 May, 2.00pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Saturday 23 May, 5.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
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MOTHER JOAN
OF THE ANGELS
(MATK A JOANNA
OD ANIOŁÓW )
Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast: Lucyna Winnicka,
Mieczysław Voit, Anna
Ciepielewska
Poland, 1961, 103 min
A stark psychological drama
about demonic possession
in a convent. Notionally,
this is based on the same
historical events that
inspired Ken Russell’s The
Devils, but Kawalerowicz’s
treatment is subtler and
more psychologically acute.
His wife Lucyna Winnicka
plays an allegedly possessed
abbess whose bona fides are
investigated by a hapless
investigator who finds himself
hopelessly out of his depth
when confronted with forces
that he does not understand.
Sunday 3 May, 5.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Friday 8 May, 8.30pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
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WALKOVER
(WALKOWER)
PHAR AOH
(FAR AON)
Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Aleksandra
Zawieruszanka, Jerzy
Skolimowski, Krzysztof
Chamiec
Poland, 1965, 70 min
Jerzy Skolimowski’s
characteristically wayward
tale of a washed-up amateur
boxer. Skolimowski’s second
feature (and first full-length
narrative) cemented his status
as a one-man Polish New
Wave, the rhythms of his films
at least as influenced by jazz
and (his own) poetry as more
conventional storytelling.
Skolimowski himself plays
a dropout turned itinerant
amateur boxer who is
distracted from his bouts
when Teresa, an old university
friend, re-enters his life.
Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast: Jerzy Zelnik, Wiesława
Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Poland, 1965, 175 min
A vast ancient Egyptian
epic that’s as much about
politics as spectacle.
Ancient Egyptians speaking
Polish? Well, why not – they
didn’t speak English either.
Kawalerowicz spent three
years making what was once
Poland’s most expensive film,
a huge widescreen epic about
the struggle between Rameses
XIII and his high priests. But
this is no Cecil B. DeMille
spectacle: co-screenwriter
Tadeusz Konwicki regarded it
as 'a penetrating analysis of a
system of power'.
Monday 4 May, 8.45 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Sunday 17 May, 6.20 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
Thursday 7 May, 8.00 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Sunday 10 May, 3.00 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
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INNOCENT
SORCERERS
(NIEWINNI
CZARODZIEJE)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Tadeusz Łomnicki,
Krystyna Stypułkowska,
Zbigniew Cybulski
Poland, 1960, 91 min
An affectionate but caustic
look at early Sixties Polish
youth culture. After three
successive films about
Polish history, Wajda turned
his attention to the (then)
present, enlisting younger
colleagues Roman Polański
and Jerzy Skolimowski to
add verisimilitude to this
study of disaffected twentysomethings. Newly qualified
doctor and jazz fanatic Bazyli
(Łomnicki) has so little time
for emotional engagement
that when he actually falls in
love he doesn’t know how to
handle it.
Friday 8 May, 6.20 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Sunday 17 May, 8.30 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
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AUSTERIA
Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast: Franciszek Pieczka,
Wojciech Pszoniak,
Jan Szurmiej
Poland, 1982, 102 min
A moving and politically
controversial tale of antiSemitic persecution during
WWI. Kawalerowicz spent
decades trying to realise
his most personal project,
that allowed him to suggest
without tackling the Holocaust
directly that the culturallyengendered pacifism and
passivity of Poland’s Jews
sowed the seeds of their later
destruction. This was, to put it
mildly, a controversial notion,
but Kawalerowicz’s sympathy
and sincerity is evident
throughout.
Wednesday 13 May, 8.50 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Saturday 23 May, 3.30 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
ASHES AND DIAMONDS
(POPIÓŁ I DIAMENT)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski,
Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław
Zastrzeżyński
Poland, 1958, 107 min
The ‘Polish James Dean’ stars
in a complex, morally knotty
masterpiece. Wajda’s film
vividly captures the turbulence
and confusion immediately
following WWII, as a former
resistance hero turns
anti-Communist assassin.
Audiences were officially
supposed to empathise
with his intended victim,
but Zbigniew Cybulski’s
astonishingly charismatic
performance as the morally
and politically riven killer
crystallised the fears and
uncertainties of an entire
generation.
Thursday 14 May, 8.45 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Tuesday 19 May, 6.20 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Monday 25 May, 8.30 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
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PROVINCIAL
ACTORS
(AK TORZY
PROWINCJONALNI)
Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Halina Łabonarska,
Tadeusz Huk, Iwona Biernacka
Poland, 1978, 104 min
Agnieszka Holland’s debut:
an ensemble piece about
warring actors. After an
apprenticeship as Wajda’s
assistant, Agnieszka Holland
made her solo debut with this
ambitious ensemble piece,
both an allegorical study
of cultural interference (a
trendy young theatre director
is attempting a politically
controversial reinterpretation
of a Polish stage warhorse)
and a lacerating portrait
of a withering marriage,
its participants actively
contemplating suicide or
murder as an escape route.
Friday 15 May, 6.10 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
+
Saturday 16 May, 8.40 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
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THE WEDDING
(WESELE)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Ewa
Ziętek, Andrzej Łapicki
Poland, 1972, 106 min
Nineteenth-century Poland
imagined as a grotesque and
raucous wedding party. First
performed in 1901, Stanisław
Wyspiański’s play turns the
marriage of a poet and a
peasant into a state-of-thenation allegory about the
attractions and pitfalls of
national self-determination
at a time when independent
Poland didn’t exist. Wajda’s
splendidly grotesque
adaptation pulls out every
cinematic stop in emphasising
the piece’s phantasmagorical
elements as his camera hurtles
from reality to fantasy.
Wednesday 20 May, 8.30 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Thursday 28 May, 8.30 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
THE PROMISED L AND
(ZIEMIA OBIECANA)
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski,
Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej
Seweryn
Poland, 1974, 179 min
Lavish and shocking portrait of
ruthless entrepreneurs during
Poland’s industrial revolution...
Władysław Reymont’s Nobelwinning novel is Poland’s
equivalent of ‘Hard Times’
or ‘Germinal’, a ruthlessly
clear-eyed anatomising of
the industrial revolution from
the perspective of three
young entrepreneurs. Wajda’s
viscerally vivid adaptation
is intoxicated by this brave
new world (the factory
sequences have a you-arethere immediacy) without ever
losing sight of the appalling
human cost.
Thursday 21 May, 5.40 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 3
+
Sunday 24 May, 2.00 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
Followed by a Q&A with
Witold Sobociński and Piotr
Sobociński
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KNIFE IN THE WATER
(NÓŻ W WODZIE)
Dir. Roman Polański
Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta
Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Poland, 1961, 101 min
Polański’s first feature spun
ostensibly simple ingredients
– two men, a woman, a yacht,
a vast expanse of water and
a haunting jazz score by the
great Krzysztof Komeda –
into not just one of the most
psychologically gripping
films of its era but also
Poland’s first Oscar© nominee.
Polański’s riveting first feature
established him as a worldclass talent.
Saturday 23 May, 8.45 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Monday 25 May, 6.10 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 1
+
Tuesday 26 May, 6.20 pm
BFI Southbank NFT 2
TUESDAY 14 APRIL
6.15PM —— BFI
WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL
6.10PM —— BFI NF T 3
NF T 3
DISCOVERING THE MASTERPIECES
OF POLISH CINEMA WITH
KUBA MIKURDA
To introduce Martin Scorsese’s survey of the
greatest Polish cinema, critic and filmmaker
Kuba Mikurda will sketch the historical contexts
that inform the films and examine the aesthetic, cultural and political concerns shared by the
auteurs that made them. Richly illustrated with
clips, photos, posters and archive documents,
this talk will introduce key figures and
movements in Polish film history, and indicate
the season’s unmissable highlights.
KEY SCHOL ARS IN FILM STUDIES:
EWA MAZIERSK A ON THE POLISH
CINEMATIC CANON
The latest in this series of lectures featuring
the world’s best film scholars sees Ewa
Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire)
join us to discuss the challenges associated
with recounting Polish cinematic history. She’ll
raise fascinating questions such as ‘how has
the desire to project a particular national
cultural identity affected the Polish critical
establishment’s approach to cinema from the
period of state socialism?’
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BFI Studio
23 APRIL —— 14 MAY
Exploring Polish Cinema
In this five session BFI Studio course, run in
conjunction with the Masterpieces of Polish
Cinema season, enjoy a series of in-depth,
illustrated lectures in our digital studio and gain
a deeper understanding and appreciation of
the films and of their time.
Kuba Mikurda on "Knights
of the black cross"
followed by a screening of the film
Thursday 16 April, 6.00pm – 7.30pm
BFI Studio
Dr. César Ballester on
Krzysztof KieŚlowski
Thursday 23 April, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
BFI Studio
Michael Goddard on Wojciech
Has, Tadeusz Konwicki and
Andrzej Munk
Thursday 30 April, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
BFI Studio
Michał Oleszczyk on
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Thursday 7 May, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
BFI Studio
Matilda Mroz on
Andrzej Wajda
Thursday 14 May, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
BFI Studio
All five sessions = £50 (£40 concs) or normal
ticket price for individual sessions. For more
information and booking contact the BFI Box
Office: 020 7928 3232
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Arts
poster exhibition
FR EE EN TR Y!
2 APRIL —— 31 MAY
BFI Southbank At r ium
Andrzej Wajda's Films
in World Film Posters
Oskar has one more complicated relationship in
his life: a love affair with his Art Dealer (Agata
Buzek). Similar to previous works from Dawicki
– the established norms of moral, spiritual and
social order are challenged and put on trial. The
Perfomer is the first-ever art exhibition in the
form of a feature film: Oskar Dawicki’s works are
connected on the screen not only by time and
space, but also by narrative, drama and emotion.
Selected works from the original Andrzej
Wajda’s Films in World Film Posters
exhibition on loan from the archives of the
Film Museum in Łódź, Poland presents
archival materials related to the life and work
of the Polish artist. The abundant archive of
the Museum includes the world biggest set
of posters connected with Andrzej Wajda’s
works. The collection includes items printed
in very small print runs, coming from various
sides of the world, among others, from Japan,
Argentina, Germany and France. Many of the
posters presented are considered works of
art and are made by great artists, Polish and
foreign graphic artists (Wiesław Wałkuski,
Jakub Erol, Cyprian Kościelniak, Andrzej
Pągowski, Marek Freundenreich, Marcin
Mroszczak, Rafał Olbiński, Rosław Szaybo,
Peter Strausfeld, Alain Lynch, Dominique
Guillotin, Otto Kummert, Milan Grygar,
Pierre Collier, M. Ogasawar, Erhard Grutter),
as well as the representatives of the Polish
poster school: Roman Cieślewicz, Wojciech
Zamecznik, Wojciech Fangor, Franciszek
Starowieyski, Wiktor Górka, Waldemar
Świerzy and Jan Lenica.
Followed by a Q&A with Łukasz Ronduda and
Oskar Dawicki
Exhibition curators: Krystyna Zamysłowska
& Piotr Kulesza
SATURDAY 23 MAY
6.30PM —— TATE MODERN STARR
AUDITORIUM
THE PERFORMER
Dir. Maciej Sobieszczański, Łukasz Ronduda
Poland, 2015, 63 min
An insight into the contemporary art world.
Based on the life of one of the most original
performance artists alive – Oskar Dawicki. The
main theme of his art is the search for an answer
to the question of whether... Oskar Dawicki exists at all. The trademark of his performances is
his blue shining jacket.
We meet Oskar at a turning point of his life,
when he learns that his Mentor Zbigniew
Warpechowski (himself) is dying. Warpechowski
was also mentoring the Dearest (Andrzej Chyra),
Oskar’s childhood friend and a rival, who devoted himself to more commercial art and became
the most profitable Polish contemporary artist.
Official selection International Film Festival
Rotterdam 2015 and the 65th International Film
Festival Berlin: Forum Expanded
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Music
music event
Eugeniusz Rudnik &
Polish experimental music
This project, organised together with the ICA,
celebrates the Polish father of experimental
and electronic music, Eugeniusz Rudnik. The
pretext for the project is the release of the documentary film 15 Corners of the World written
and directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz. The film
received the Best Film award at the Locarno
Film Festival last year (2014) and translates the
world of Rudnik’s sounds into a visual interpretation of the sensual and emotional perception of music. The director says: 'The film is an
attempt to hear the music of Eugeniusz Rudnik
with your eyes. I have made a film that gives
priority to the sound more than to the picture
– a film that gives interpretation to the music in
order to capture it in pictures – to show sound.'
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FRIDAY 10 APRIL
8.30pm — ICA
15 CORNERS OF THE WORLD
Dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz
Cast: Weronika Pelczyńska, Anna Wojnarowska,
Romuald Krężel,
Poland, 2014, 79 min
Screening of the film will be accompanied by a
Q&A with Eugeniusz Rudnik hosted by Frances
Morgan (The Wire), and an exclusive live performance of Rudnik's compositions, including his
piece written for Arne Nordheim.
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Sunday 12 April
WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL
6.00PM —— ICA
6.10PM —— BFI NF T 3
KISSINGER T WINS: Cinematic
L abyrinths Interactive Films
and Transmedia Storytelling
The Kissinger Twins (Dawid Marcinkowski and
Kasia Kifert) are at the forefront of creating an
exciting new highly interactive web based on
cinematic storytelling. During 90 minutes of presentation, Dawid
and Kasia explain idea of Cinematic Labyrinths
and take the audience on a journey through
their multiple award winning projects ranging
from 2002 until future present including The
Trip, Sufferrosa, the biggest independent
interactive film ever made, and the latest The
Network Is Watching (campaign for Channel 4
series Utopia).
BAFTA MASTERCL ASS
WITH SŁ AWOMIR IDZIAK
Sławomir Idziak is one of Europe's most
acclaimed cinematographers. He has worked
with Polish directors such as Andrzej Wajda,
Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski,
and internationally with Ridley Scott, John
Sayles, Michael Winterbottom and John
Duigan. In 2002, he was nominated for an
Academy Award and BAFTA for Black Hawk
Down. His latest project is The Tale of Love and
Darkness, directed by Natalie Portman and due
for release this year.
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london film academy
kinotek a & London film
academy studio: workshops
for scriptwriters
An intensive three day lab-based programme
aimed at scriptwriters with proven experience
who wish to move from shorts to features,
or who are working on their first feature
script. Ten selected scriptwriters will have the
opportunity to polish their skills in pitching,
story development and story editing during
practical lectures, case studies and master
classes with industry professionals, such as:
Gavin Humphires, Olivier Kaempfer and Paweł
Pawlikowski amongst many others.
Throughout the workshops there will be
plenty of opportunity to network with film / TV industry professionals, and learn more
about how to pitch your script to the industry.
Organised and supported by Polish Cultural
Institute London, T-Mobile New Horizons Film
Festival and London Film Academy
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closing night gala
screening and boat cruise
FRIDAY 29 MAY
This year, KINOTEKA Closing Night event
will involve the screening of the cult Polish
comedy The Cruise (1970) at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts, launching the first UK
release of the film by Second Run DVD. After
the show, the audience will experience an
authentic boat ride on the River Thames with
a specially commissioned immersive theatre
performance and live music.
CU LT SC RE EN IN G
TH AM ES CR UI SE !
6.30pm —— Ica
8.15PM—— TOWER PIER
THE CRUISE
(REJS)
Dir. Marek Piwowski
Cast: Stanisław Tym, Jolanta Lothe, Wanda
Stanisławska-Lothe
Poland, 1970, 65 min
Regarded as Polish cinema’s first ‘cult film’,
Piwowski’s The Cruise is also considered by
many to be a satirical masterpiece. Shot in a
quasi-documentary style, with a cast featuring
mostly non-professional actors, the absurd plot
parodies life in the (then) People's Republic of
Poland, reducing a weekend river cruise to a
hilarious satire of the entire Communist system.
Piwowski's gift of observation, his sense
of humour and an acute awareness of national
pathology have made The Cruise one of
Poland’s most popular and widely-known films
of the 1970s.
UK Premiere of the newly restored version
in collaboration with Second Run DVD
A CRUISE DOWN THE ABSURD:
L IVE BOAT CRUISE E XPE R IE NCE
W I T H GIDEON R E E L ING A ND OB AR A
IN T E R N AT ION A L
The cruise, inspired by the iconic film and its
absurd humour will immerse the audience in a
specially commissioned theatre performance
by the upcoming British theatre group, Gideon
Reeling. Their act will be part scripted and part
improvised for the duration of the evening and
will be set in the era of the cult film, building
on the aesthetic and the characters of The
Cruise and the 1970s. The performance will be
accompanied by live music inspired by Polish
film music from the 60s and 70s, as well as
a DJ set presenting a mixture of 70s party
music, film music and comedic music. The
performance will be accompanied by live music
including the world-famous Obara International
with their project Komeda, and some new,
specially commissioned works.
Immerse yourself in the feelings of
surreality, confusion and the absurd!
8.15 pm Boarding the boat
8.45 pm Departure from Tower Pier
There will be a bus transfer arranged for joint
ticket holders from the ICA to the Tower pier.
No late comers will be admitted on the boat.
There will be two bars selling drinks on the boat.
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K i note k a on Tou r
kinoteka on tour
APRIL 2015 —— SEPTEMBER 2015
CALENDAR & BOOKING
Thursday 2 April –
Sunday 31 May
POSTER EXHIBITION:
Andrzej Wajda's Films in World Film
Posters
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
Free entry
Wednesday 8 April
6.00 pm
OPENING NIGHT GALA:
Camouflage dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 9 April
6.15 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Illumination dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Constant Factor dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
NEW POLISH CINEMA:
The Mighty Angel dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
ICA
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Friday 10 April
8.30 pm
MUSIC EVENT:
15 Corners of the World
dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz
ICA
www.ica.org.uk
The confirmed cinemas:
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
BFI Southbank
Showroom, Sheffield
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Ucheldre Centre, Anglesey
Chapter, Cardiff
Neuadd Dwyfor Pwllheli
Eden Court, Inverness
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Glasgow Film Theatre
Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen
Quad, Derby
Watershed, Bristol
Broadway, Nottingham
Phoenix, Leicester
Gulbenkian, Canterbury
QFT, Belfast
Saturday 11 April
4.30 pm
NEW POLISH CINEMA:
Hardkor Disko dir. Krzysztof Skonieczny
ICA
www.ica.org.uk
Saturday 11 April
6.30 pm
DOCUMENTARIES (DOUBLE BILL):
Our Curse dir. Tomasz Śliwiński
Joanna dir. Aneta Kopacz
ICA
Saturday 11 April
8.20 pm
NEW POLISH CINEMA:
Citizen dir. Jerzy Stuhr
ICA
Sunday 12 April
4.00 pm
Sunday 12 April
6.00 pm
DOCUMENTARIES:
Wojciech Wiszniewski Rediscovered
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
Cinematic Labyrinths by Kissinger Twins
ICA
ICA
Sunday 12 April
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Constant Factor dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 12 April
7.50 pm
NEW POLISH CINEMA:
Foreign Body dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
ICA
www.ica.org.uk
To check the full list of cinemas go to
www.kinoteka.org.uk or mspresents.com/uk
Sunday 12 April
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Illumination dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 9 April
8.50 pm
Friday 10 April
6.30 pm
KINOTEKA is proud to be partnering with
Filmhouse Edinburgh and BFI Southbank on an
exciting new collaboration for the UK tour of
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish
Cinema, 24 masterpieces, chosen by Scorsese
himself, all brilliantly restored and digitally
re-mastered to 2K resolution.
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces
of Polish Cinema, takes place at Filmhouse
Edinburgh and BFI Southbank throughout
April and May as part of KINOTEKA Polish
Film Festival. The national tour presented by
Filmhouse Edinburgh continues at venues
across the UK until the end of September.
The season will include a host of special guests
to introduce and explore the lasting influence
and inspiration of these masterpieces on Polish
and UK filmmakers, and beyond.
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Monday 13 April
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Eroica dir. Andrzej Munk
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Tuesday 14 April
6.15 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
Discovering the Masterpieces of Polish
Cinema with Kuba Mikurda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Tuesday 14 April
6.00 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Blind Chance dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Tuesday 14 April
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Camouflage dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Wednesday 15 April
6.10 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
Bafta Masterclass With Sławomir Idziak
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
A Short Film About Killing
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
BFI Studio: Exploring Polish Cinema. Kuba
Mikurda on The Knights of the Black Cross
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Knights of the Black Cross
dir. Aleksander Ford
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Saturday 18 April
6.00 pm
DOCUMENTARIES (DOUBLE BILL):
From Moscow To Pietushki
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Dostoevsky’s Travels
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
ICA
Saturday 18 April
6.10 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Blind Chance dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Saturday 18 April
8.50 pm
Wednesday 15 April
8.30 pm
Thursday 16 April
6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Thursday 16 April
8.00 pm
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.ica.org.uk
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Tuesday 21 April
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Hourglass Sanatorium
dir. Wojciech Has
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Wednesday 22 April
6.10 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
Key Scholars in Film Studies: Ewa
Mazierska on the Polish Cinematic Canon
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 23 April
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
BFI Studio: Exploring Polish Cinema.
Dr César Ballester on Krzysztof Kieślowski
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Eroica dir. Andrzej Munk
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Friday 24 April
6.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
A Short Film About Killing
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Friday 24 April
7.00 pm
SPECIAL TALK & SCREENING:
Gottland dir. Lukáš Kokeš et al.
Frontline Club
frontlineclub.com
020 7479 8940
Saturday 25 April
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Jump dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Saturday 25 April
7.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Saragossa Manuscript
dir. Wojciech Has
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 26 April
3.15 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
To Kill This Love
dir. Janusz Morgenstern
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 26 April
4.40 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Knights of the Black Cross
dir. Aleksander Ford
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 23 April
8.30 pm
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
A Short Film About Killing
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 26 April
8.50 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Last Day of Summer
dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 19 April
6.00 pm
DOCUMENTARIES (DOUBLE BILL):
Serbian Epics dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Tripping With Zhirinovsky
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
ICA
www.ica.org.uk
Tuesday 28 April
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Last Day of Summer
dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
Workshop for Scriptwriters
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Saragossa Manuscript
dir. Wojciech Has
londonfilmacademy
.com
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Jump dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
Monday 20 April
7.40 pm
London Film
Academy
BFI Southbank
Tuesday 28 April
8.50 pm
BFI Southbank
Monday 20 April –
Wednesday 22 April
Wednesday 29 April
8.45 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
To Kill This Love
dir. Janusz Morgenstern
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
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Friday 15 May
6.10 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Provincial Actors dir. Agnieszka Holland
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Saturday 16 May
8.40 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Provincial Actors dir. Agnieszka Holland
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 17 May
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Walkover dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 17 May
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Innocent Sorcerers dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Tuesday 19 May
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Ashes and Diamonds dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Mother Joan of the Angels
dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Wednesday 20 May
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Wedding dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Walkover dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 21 May
5.40 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Promised Land dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
Monday 4 May
8.45 pm
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Austeria dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Saturday 23 May
5.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Man of Iron dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 7 May
8.00 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
BFI Studio: Exploring Polish Cinema.
Michał Oleszczyk on Jerzy Kawalerowicz
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Pharaoh dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Saturday 23 May
3.30 pm
BFI Southbank
Thursday 7 May
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Saturday 23 May
6.30 pm
Tate Modern
Friday 8 May
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Innocent Sorcerers dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.tate.org.uk
Friday 8 May
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Mother Joan of the Angels
dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
Saturday 23 May
8.45 pm
CINEMA MEETS ARTS:
The Performer dir. Maciej Sobieszczański,
Łukasz Ronduda
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Knife in the Water dir. Roman Polański
Sunday 24 May
2.00 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Promised Land dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Saturday 9 May
8.45 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Night Train dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
Monday 25 May
6.10 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Knife in the Water dir. Roman Polański
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Sunday 10 May
3.00 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Pharaoh dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
Monday 25 May
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Ashes and Diamonds dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Wednesday 13 May
8.50 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Austeria dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
Tuesday 26 May
6.20 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Knife in the Water dir. Roman Polański
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 14 May
6.30 pm-8.30 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
BFI Studio: Exploring Polish Cinema.
Matilda Mroz on Andrzej Wajda
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Ashes and Diamonds dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Thursday 28 May
8.30 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Wedding dir. Andrzej Wajda
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
Friday 29 May
6.30 pm
8.15 pm
KINOTEKA CLOSING NIGHT:
The Cruise dir. Marek Piwowski
A Cruise Down the Absurd
Thursday 30 April
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:
BFI Studio: Exploring Polish Cinema.
Michael Goddard on Wojciech J. Has,
Tadeusz Konwicki and Andrzej Munk
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
The Hourglass Sanatorium
dir. Wojciech Has
BFI Southbank
Saturday 2 May
6.10 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Night Train dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
BFI Southbank
Sunday 3 May
2.00 pm
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:
Man of Iron dir. Andrzej Wajda
Sunday 3 May
5.30 pm
Thursday 30 April
8.20 pm
Thursday 14 May
8.45 pm
BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank
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www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
BFI Southbank
ICA
Tower Pier
k i n o t e k a .o r g.u k
www.bfi.org.uk
020 7928 3232
www.ica.org.uk
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C r e d it s & T h a n k s
KINOTEKA Principle partner:
KINOTEKA Main funding contributor:
CREDITS & THANKS
KINOTEKA Supporters:
F estival Production T eam :
Anna Godlewska
Polish Cultural Institute Director
Marlena Lukasiak
Kinoteka Programmer
and Producer
Magdalena Grabianowska
Polish Cultural Institute
Deputy Director
Karolina Kołodziej
Marketing & PR Coordinator
Agnieszka Ciepłucha
Marketing Assistant and
Kinoteka Guests Coordinator
Dobrosława Świtalska
Fundraising
Darek Tomaszewski
Logistics and Guest Support
Anna Gruszka
Music Event & Closing Gala
Coordinator
Paulina Latham
Film Poster Exhibition and
Events Coordinator
Magda Raczyńska
Gottland Screening Coordinator
Anna Aładja / Sara Komaiszko
Support
Poster A RT W OR K :
Tomasz Opasiński
Graphic Design :
Luke Gould
F estival T railer :
Kamil Dobrosielski
PR :
Margaret London
Zena Howard
W ith Special T hank s :
Agnieszka Odorowicz,
Polish Film Institute
Anna MacDonald, London
Film Academy
Annie Rudnick, ICA
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Chris Barwick,
Second Run DVD
David Edgar, BFI Southbank
David Somerset, BFI Southbank
Elizabeth Wood, DocHouse
Helen de Witt, BFI Southbank
George Clark, Tate Modern
Gregor Muir, ICA
Izabela Kiszka, Polish
Film Institute
Jakub Górski, DFDS Seaways
Jan Naszewski, T-Mobile
New Horizons International
Film Festival
Jenny Horwell, DocHouse
Joanna Łapińska, T-Mobile
New Horizons International
Film Festival
Joanna Stachyra, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Poland
John Woroniecki, Baltic
Restaurant
Julianne Rooney, Frontline Club
Julie Pearce, BFI Southbank
Laura Adams, BFI Southbank
Liz Parkinson, BFI Southbank
Krystyna Zamysłowska,
Film Museum in Łódź
Łukasz Pawlak, Requiem
Records
Łukasz Ronduda, Filmoteka
Muzeum, Museum of Modern
Art in Warsaw
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Maciej Kornacki, Filmoteka
Narodowa
Maggi Hurt, BFI Southbank
Mariayah Kaderbhai, BAFTA
Marjolein Den Bakker,
Filmhouse Edinburgh
Mehelli Modi, Second Run DVD
Michael Keckes, DFDS Seaways
Monika Sidorowicz, Boiler
Room Poland
Monika Wróbel, Forest & Ray
Naomi Crowther, ICA
Nico Marzano, ICA
Paweł Jodłowski, Project
London Production
Piotr Kulesza, Film Museum
in Łódź
Renata Clark, Czech Centre
Rod White, Filmhouse
Edinburgh
Sebastian Stern, BFI Southbank
Simon Duffy, BFI Southbank
Tadeusz Kowalski, Filmoteka
Narodowa
Tereza Porybná, Czech Centre
Tomasz Opasiński
Tomasz Szeratics, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Wotienkie Vermeer, Frontline
Club
Zeljka Marosevic, Melville House
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BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XT
020 7928 3232
bfi.org.uk
The Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place,
London W2 1QJ
020 7479 8940
frontlineclub.com
London FIlm Academy
52a Walham Grove
London SW 1QR
020 7386 7711
londonfilmacademy.com
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
tate.org.uk/modern
ICA
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
020 7930 3647
ica.org.uk