Welcome to the 4th edition of Play POland film Festival october 9 th - November 30 th 2014 The 4th edition of Play Poland Film Festival is well underway. The Festival is wide reaching and will cover seven British and Northern Irish cities including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberfeldy, London, Sunderland, Birmingham and Belfast. Similar to previous years, the event also extends out of Great Britain and will be held in Canada, the United States of America and Norway. The selection of feature films as well as shorts, documentaries and animations will focus on fresh, recently released productions proving that Polish cinema still has a lot to offer. They engage the spectator in lively dialogue and are able to impel thoughts and an honest laugh. Amongst this year's features, spectators will find widely recognised film-makers and films, such as 'Ida' directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, Krzysztof Skonieczny's 'Hardkor Disco', two unconventional movies directed by Anna and Wilhelm Sasnal – 'Parasite' and 'It Looks Pretty From The Distance' – and many, many more. There will also be a screening of 'Life Feels Good' by Maciej Pieprzyca. The director will be an honorary guest and will be at the Edinburgh screening in person.
In presented films we will not only see well established Polish actors such as Jerzy Stuhr, Bogusław Linda, Agata Kulesza and Jerzy Trela but also debutants who surprised the world with their great talents which swept the jury, audience and ecumenical prizes at international film festivals. The best example is Agata Trzebuchowska starring in ‘Ida’. Cinema lovers are not the only ones who can be excited about the forthcoming event. Every year founders of the Festival spice things up with a great number of exhibitions, workshops and accompanying events promoting Polish contemporary art. As is the case every year, included will be a complimentary exhibition of Polish film posters which will be held at various locations. It is now a tradition that the festival's main poster is also designed by a renown artist such as Andrzej Pągowski or, this year, Tomasz Płonka, who additionally will be the special guest. This year the Festival joins forces with the Edinburgh Art Fair who give talented Polish artists the opportunity to exhibit their works during this exciting event. I hope you will join me in celebrating Poland’s many and varied contributions to the world. Enjoy! Mateusz Jarza Polish Art Europe Director
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Polish Art Europe takes special pride in bringing together a number of Polish and international organisations to collaborate with the aim of providing audiences in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Norway, Canada and the United States of the America with the best programme of outstanding and memorable cinematic and artistic events. Through our passion and dedication to promote Polish culture we have crafted the fourth edition of Play Poland Film Festival.
Play Poland is organised under the patronage of The Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Edinburgh, Mr Dariusz Adler, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ottawa, Prof. Richard Demarco, one of Scotland’s most influential advocates for contemporary art and Prof. Zbigniew Pełczyński, the tutor of political philosophy and politics at Pembroke College, Oxford.
What will be screened? Our partner organisations: - Glasgow – The Sikorski Polish Club - London – Play Full Ltd - Sunderland - International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS) - Oslo - The Young Polish Norwegian Professionals Association „UCI” - Ottawa - The Young Polish Canadian Professionals Association (YPCPA) - New York - Pangea Network USA
In order to deliver a unique experience this year’s film selection covers exclusively the most recent cinematic productions (the majority is from 2013 and 2014). Films presented at Play Poland have been carefully selected to appreciate those films which reflect on important issues as well as praise technical innovation. Furthermore, a number of them have been recognised and awarded at numerous Polish and international film festivals.
FEATURE FILMS
Life feels good (Życie jest piękne)
Life feels good
Floating Skyscrappers
(Życie jest piękne)
(Płynące wieżowce)
dir. Maciej Pieprzyca | 2013 | Drama | 107’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 15, English Subtitles
dir. Tomasz Wasilewski | 2013 | Melodrama | 93' Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 18, English Subtitles
Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik (Mateusz), Kamil Tkacz (small Mateusz), Dorota Kolak (mother), Arkadiusz Jakubik (father), Anna Nehrebecka (Mrs. Jola)
Cast: Mateusz Banasiuk (Kuba), Marta Nieradkiewicz (Sylwia, Kuba’s girlfriend), Bartosz Gelner (Michał), Katarzyna Herman (Kuba’s mother), Izabela Kuna (Michał’s mother)
Montreal World Film Festival (Canada 2013): Grand Prix, Audience Award, Ecumenical Jury Prize; Chicago IFF, 2013: Silver Hugo Award; Seatlle IFF 2014 Golden Space Needle Award: Best Actor (Dawid Ogrodnik) And many more. "Life feels good" is a film based on a true story. Mateusz, a man suffering for cerebral palsy, who in his early childhood had been diagnosed as mentally disabled with no contact with the outside world. After twenty five years it turned out that Mateusz thinks and feels like anyone else… EDINBURGH – 9TH October, 6pm, Filmhouse followed by a Q&A with Maciej Pieprzyca ABERFELDY – 19TH October, 6pm, Birks Cinema BIRMINGHAM – 24TH October, 8.30pm, mac Cinema LONDON – 4TH November, 6.30pm, Clapham Picturehouse GLASGOW – 13TH November, 6.45pm, Grosvenor.
Karlovy Vary IFF: Grand Prize in East of the West Competition Film Forum Zadar: Best Actor Award for Mateusz Banasiuk Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles: Piotr Łazarkiewicz Award for Young Talent (Bartosz Gelner) In his fifteenth year of training, aspiring champion swimmer Kuba lives a normal, uneventful life at home with his mother and girlfriend. He happily switches back and forth from a healthy sex life with Sylwia to performing the occasional back rub his mother craves. However, Kuba is growing more curious about some of the boys at the gym. At a gallery opening one night, he feels totally bored and out of place until he meets Michal… EDINBURGH – 16TH October, 6.15pm, Filmhouse LONDON – 30TH October, 7pm, Clapham Picturehouse GLASGOW – 6TH November, 6.45pm, Grosvenor BELFAST – dates & venues are to be confirmed soon. Stay tuned!
Apnea (Bezdech)
Apnea
Hardkor Disko
(Bezdech) dir. Jerzy Bart | 2013 | Drama | 74’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 15, English Subtitles
dir. Krzysztof Skonieczny | 2014 |Fiction | 84’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 18, English Subtitles
Cast: Bogusław Linda (Jerzy), Krzysztof Stroiński (Tomasz). Władysław Kowalski (Philosopher), Jerzy Stuhr (Lucjan), Andrzej Seweryn (Producer), Jerzy Trela (Father), Katarzyna Figura (Wanda), and others with special appearence of Tadeusz Konwicki
Cast: Marcin Kowalczyk (Marcin), Jaśmina Polak (Ola), Agnieszka Wosińska (Ola’s mother), Janusz Chabior (Ola’a father), Ewa Skonieczna (Beata)
Festival Brasil De Cinema Internacional - Best Actor Prize Sopot Two Theaters TV & Radio Festival – Best Dramatic Text Prize, Best Music, Best Editing, Best Actor Prize "Apnea" marks a short moment of suspension between life and death. Jerzy, world famous film director, having lived and worked in Hollywood for many years, unexpectedly appears in his hometown, Warsaw. On a journey through the city, he finds his son, whom he has never met, visits his father, and talks about death with a renowned philosopher. He meets his former friends, enemies, and lovers. Just like Voltaire's "Candide", he is about to be surprised, enchanted, but also terrified. EDINBURGH – 30TH October, 6.15pm, Filmhouse LONDON – 2ND November, 1.30pm, Clapham Picturehouse GLASGOW – 26TH November, 6.15pm, Glasgow Film Theatre
“Hardkor, spelled in a polonised fashion, is a term that describes our times. It entered our everyday language to signify something surprising, ruthless, and yet attractive and alluring through its aura of danger. At the same time, "disko" is a word from a bygone era, from the times of our parents, filled with a very special kind of nostalgia” - Krzysztof Skonieczny A contemporary, multi-faceted metropolis. Nouveau-riche parents and their hedonist, live-for-the-moment children, surrounded by a reality where anger and tension pulsate almost to the brink of explosion. This is where we meet Marcin, a young man who comes to the city and meets Ola, a couple of years his junior. Fascinated, the girl lets him into her world of drugs, endless, bohemian parties and illegal car races. However, neither she, nor her parents know that Marcin has a well-guarded secret and a plan for revenge. BIRMINGHAM – 19TH October, 6pm, mac cinema LONDON – 24TH October, 6.30pm, Hackney Picturehouse followed by a Q&A with Krzysztof Skonieczny
Papusza
Ida
Papusza
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski | 2013 | Drama | 82’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 12A, English Subtitles
dir. Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze | 2013 | Biography, Drama | 131‘ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 15, English Subtitles
Cast: Agata Kulesza (Wanda), Agata Trzebuchowska (Anna/Ida), Dawid Ogrodnik (Lis), Jerzy Trela (Szymon) and special guest appearance Joanna Kulig (singer) Nomination to Oscar Toronto International Film Festival 2013: Fipresci Award London Film Festival 2013: Grand Prix Jewish Film Festival, Warsaw 2013: Awards For Best Feature, Best Actress (Agata Kulesza), Best Cinematography Listapad IFF, Minsk (Belarus) 2013: Grand Prix And Award For Best Cinematography And many more Anna is a beautiful, eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since being orphaned as a child. Learning she has a living relative, Anna visits her mother's sister, Wanda, before taking her vows. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of their past and each other. ABERFELDY – 23RD October, 5,15pm, Birks cinema GLASGOW – 27TH November, 6.45pm, Grosvenor BELFAST – dates & venues are to be confirmed soon. Stay tuned!
Cast: Jowita Miondlikowska (Papusza), Joanna Niemirska (Wanda Ficowska), Antoni Pawlicki (Jerzy Ficowski), Artur Starenko (Czarnecki), Karlovy Vary IFF: Special Mention of the Jury Manaki Brothers International Film Festival, Bitola (Macedonia): Bronze Camera Award for K. Ptak and W.Staroń Thessaloniki IFF (Greece): Award in Open Horizons Section And many more True story of Papusza (poetess Bronislawa Wajs) - the first Roma woman who put her poems into writing and published them, and therefore confronted the traditional female image in the gypsy community. The film follows Papusza’s life from birth to old age: arranged marriage as a small girl, her life in a gypsy tabor before, during and after second world war, then forced settlement in communist Poland and urban life in poverty. EDINBURGH – 23RD October, 5.45pm, Filmhouse BIRMINGHAM – 28TH October, 8.30pm, mac Cinema ABERFELDY – 2ND November, 6pm, Birks Cinema GLASGOW – 20TH November, 6.45pm, Grosvenor BELFAST – dates & venues are to be confirmed soon. Stay tuned!
Kebab and horoscope (kebab i horoskop)
Kebab & Horoscope
The Last Floor
(Kebab i Horoskop)
(Ostatnie piętro)
dir. Grzegorz Jaroszuk | 2014 | Drama, Comedy | 72' Certificate (or suggested certificate) - 15, English Subtitles
dir. Tadeusz Król | 2012 | Thriller | 87’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 15, English Subtitles
Cast: Piotr Żurawski , Bartłomiej Topa , Justyna Wasilewska, Tomasz Schuchardt , Barbara Kurzaj , Andrzej Zieliński, Dorota Kolak , Janusz Michałowski, Marek Kalita
Cast: Janusz Chabior (Derczyński), Joanna Orleańska (Derczyński’s Wife), Przemysław Bluszcz, Aleksandra Popławska, Marek Kalita, Wojciech Zieliński
At first glance, Kebab & Horoscope is a movie full of the absurd. It's a story the misfit employees of a carpet store who one day get confronted by two crooks with the graceful nicknames Kebab and Horoscope. One is an ex-kebab shop employee, the other an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine. They enter the store and claim to be marketing specialists, and begin training the staff in order to save the store from bankruptcy. The staff themselves, consists of characters incredibly colorful in their blandness, and apart from doing useless tasks in the store, have to deal with their private lives.
A psychological thriller, based on events that took place in a small town in southern Poland several years ago. Military man, Captain Derczynski, lives a peaceful life with his beloved wife and three children. One day, he comes across a swindle, committed by his superiors, and they discharge him to cover the case. Believing he had discovered fraud, or even an anti-Polish conspiracy, the captain decides to protect himself and his family with all his might. His conservative ideals provide him with an explanation of the events, and reinforce a growing conviction that enforcing special measures for his family's protection are necessary. Derczynski shuts them down in an apartment, isolating them from the outside world - a source of all evil and danger.
GLASGOW – 12TH November, 6.25pm, Glasgow Film Theatre EDINBURGH – 13TH November, 5.45pm, Filmhouse LONDON – 15TH November, 6.30pm, Clapham Picturehouse SUNDERLAND - 10TH November, 5pm, David Puttnam Media Centre BELFAST – dates & venues are to be confirmed soon. Stay tuned!
EDINBURGH – 20TH November, 5.45pm, Filmhouse LONDON – 9TH November, 5pm, Stratford Picturehouse
Parasite (Huba)
It looks pretty from a distance
Parasite
(Z daleka widok jest piękny)
(Huba)
dir. Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | 2011 | Drama | 77' Certificate (or suggested certificate) - 15, English Subtitles
dir. Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | 2013 | Drama | 66’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 15, English Subtitles
Cast: Marcin Czarnik (Paweł Muraw), Agnieszka Podsiadlik (dziewczyna), Piotr Nowak (Mirek Kotlarz), Elżbieta Okupska (matka Muraw), Jerzy Łapiński (dziadek Kotlarz)
Cast: Joanna Drozda, Jerzy Gajlikowski, Wojtek Slowik
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 - Official selection Tiger Award Competition The New Horizons International Film Festival 2011 - Best film in the Polish Film Competition A countryside community, barely surviving, wilting in the summer heat. People get by gathering all sorts of garbage and waste; scattered, worn out objects cover the farmyards enclosed by wobbly fences. The main character, Paweł makes his living by collecting scrap metal. He lives with his elderly and mentally ill mother, whom he cannot cope with, thus he drives her away from home. He has a fiancée; they are planning to get married. But one day Paweł suddenly disappears. Nobody knows where he is. GLASGOW – 5TH November, 5.25pm, Glasgow Film Theatre EDINBURGH – 6TH November, 5.45pm, Filmhouse
"Huba" ("The Parasite") is a film about an ailing old man and a young mother. After retiring from the factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine, loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose attachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has noting to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives intertwine in a web of oppression. The film follows their monotonous daily existence and slow decline.“ - Anka Sasnal GLASGOW – 5TH November, 5.25pm, Glasgow Film Theatre EDINBURGH – 6TH November, 5.45pm, Filmhouse LONDON – 8TH November, 6.30pm, Hackney Picturehouse
The Sasnal’s night - Edinburgh & Glasgow – A DOUBLE BILL - come and see “It looks pretty from a distance” followed by the newest Sasnal’s film “Parasite”
Special Screenings
O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS 2014 is an exceptional program including the winners of the Festival of Polish Animation ”O!PLA”, whom second edition was held in 44 Polish cities, from March 21st to June 8th 2014, and in which only audience decide about the winners! O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS 2014 is kind of cross-section of contemporary Polish animation for adults (2012-2014) because their include both “film made in professional studio”, fully independent animation, school (graduation films), animated music videos, and new category: “animated epigrams” (very short movies).
Steven and the Beetle (Stefan i żuczek)
dir. P. Loc Hoang Ngoc | 2012 | PWSFTviT | 12’ Is there a place for friendship in the world dominated by callous health rules? For a friendship that is a misalliance. Stefan is a successful swim coach loved by women. His life is turned upside down when he meets Beetle…
Human parasite (Glista lucka)
dir. Tomasz Pawlak | 2014 | 7’ Lucjan Poluśkiewicz, as a newly minted graduate of the Biology Department, starts independent life. His plans, however, collide with harsh reality: he is attacked by the parasite…
Lost senses (Zmysły prysły)
dir. Marcin Wasilewski | 2013 | 6’ A short story about an encounter in an abstract world, á la Giorgio De Chrico. A Man is about to meet a Woman in an abstract flying city. Excited, running like a parkour practitioner, he is climbing up on the buildings…
The governance of love (O rządach miłości)
dir. Adela Kaczmarek | 2013 | Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych „ę” | 13’ It is an animated documentary about imagination. The protagonist lives in several realities at the same time. Real people and events intertwine with those created by his imagination.
PAC!
dir. Alicja Błaszczyńska | 2012 | PWSFTviT ŁÓDŹ | 01’ Animated epigram about some unexpected meeting in the bathroom...
Black on white (Czarne na białym)
dir. Mateusz Gudel | 2013 | UA POZNAŃ | 01’ Whether these eyes can lie? Animated epigram about the power of a human gaze.
Wire Man (Druciak)
Spider and flies (Pająk i muchy)
Salt and Pepper (Sól i pieprz)
What if… (A gdyby…)
dir. Anna Rękas | 2013 | ZSMC WA UMCS LUBLIN | 11,5’ Attempts to mask our true selves do not help us in life and in relationships with others.
dir. Alicja Adamkiewicz | 2012 | UMK TORUŃ | 02’ Animated epigram to the composition "Por una Cabeza" by Carlos Gardel.
Orawus
dir. W. M. Sławuski, Wojciech Kilar | 2013 | 09’ Experimental music video created to the famous composition under the title "Orawa" by Wojciech Kilar, the great Polish contemporary composer.
Ius Primae Noctis - The law of the first night (Prawo pierwszej nocy)
dir. Łukasz Rusinek / R.U.T.A.| 2012 | 4’ Music video for Polish folk/ hardcode punk project R.U.T.A.
dir. Tessa Moult-Milewska | 2013 | 3,5’ Adaptation of the popular Polish fairy tale about the consequences of some deal between the spider and the flies.
dir. Kamil Wójcik | 2013 | 05’ What would happen if ...
Three Kings - Pastorale (Trzej królowie - pastorałka) dir. Anna Błaszczyk, Jan Duszyński | 2014 | WJTeam | 03’ Music video based on the old Polish carol.
Ars Moriendi
dir. Miłosz Margański | 2013 | UA POZNAŃ | 7’ To what extend can our live be planned? Do we ever let the coincidence influence our plans? "Ars moriendi" seeks to answer these questions.
KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI RADIO AND TELEVISION FACULTY / KATOWICE The University of Silesia in Katowice has its origins in the Institute of Education in Katowice (Instytut Pedagogiczny w Katowicach), which was founded in 1928; at that time it was the only institution of higher education in the part of Silesia belonging to Poland. In 1950 Higher School of Education in Katowice (Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna w Katowicach) was established. Later, the school merged with an established in 1965 in Katowice branch of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1968 on the base of these educational facilities, the University of Silesia in Katowice was established in its current form, as the ninth university in Poland. The University of Silesia in Katowice conducts education and research. It offers undergraduate and Master’s programs, PhD studies, as well as postgraduate, postdoctoral research - habilitation, continuous education and training programs.
Errata
dir. Arkadiusz Biedrzycki | 2012 | Etude | 17’ Did he live like he wrote or wrote just like he lived? He created credibly or existed implausibly? Jerzy Kosinski. What exactly did his suicidal death mean? Was it an errata for his biography or his literary work? The film by Arek Biedrzycki asks many questions, effectively avoiding firm answers.
Rollercoaster
dir. Marek Marlikowski | 2013 | Etude | 14’ It is a story of a young woman. As she faces a breaking point in her career, life presents her with a trial of its own.
Killing Auntie
dir. Mateusz Głowacki | 2013 | Etude | 30’ There was no doubt Auntie was a corpse. She lay still, a small trickle of blood pouring out of god knows where as there was no visible wound. I grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her face up. There was no doubt - she was a corpse. - Corpse - I pronounced half loud. Corpse, corpse, corpse...
Lesson
dir. Damian Kocur | 2013 | Etude | 7’ A boy looks into a pastry shop's window, runs inside to buy a cupcake, then runs like the wind to school. We hear the clang of a cash register being closed half a century ago. This sweet beginning does not foreshadow an adventure more bitter: the adventure of the boy, or perhaps someone else? Was it really a cupcake? Who in the end shall be the one getting his hands dirty?
KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION Volcano
dir. Michal Wawrzecki | 2013 | Etude | 25’ “Volcano” is an intimate story of marriage. After an unsuccessful attempt to go on holiday, he and she shut themselves away at their beautiful home. They decide that the holiday is going to be just the two of them. To really relax, they are not going to be using phones, laptops or watching television or listening to the radio. When they deprive themselves of contact with the world and other people, it turns out that they are strangers to each other and that their marriage is just pretence.
Magma
dir. Pawel Maslona | 2013 | Etude | 31’ Janusz is a salesman in a furniture shop. One day he accidentally destroys a pillow. This is the first „accident in the company since very long time and he seems to be really upset about it. Or maybe there’s something else he’s upset about?
The Krakow Film Foundation is a is non-governmental organisation that was set up in 2003 with the goal of insuring the stable development of the Krakow Film Festival - the oldest Polish film festival and one of the most important European film events. In 2007 Krakow Film Foundation expanded through the creation of a film promotion agency, which helps filmmakers and producers make their first appearances at international festivals. The agency runs three main programs: POLISH DOCS, POLISH SHORTS and POLISH ANIMATIONS. By reaching around 1000 festival screenings annually, the agency successfully facilitates spreading the word about contemporary, Polish documentary and short cinema.
Left Side of the Face
dir. Marcin Bortkiewicz | 2013 | Documentary | 12’ The film 'Left Side of the Face' follows photographer Leszek Krutulski as he creates an interesting artistic project. Travelling the length and breadth of Poland, he invites people (of all ages, races, nationalities, outlooks on life and sexual orientations) to an impromptu photographic studio. If they agree, he then takes a photo of the left side of their face. He will photograph the right side in ten years time.
Seven men at different ages
dir. Sławomir Witek | 2013 | Documentary | 12’ The film that refers to a documentary by Krzysztof Kieślowski follows the life of men in seven different moments of a boxing career. The first exercises introduce young boys to the world of sports rivalry, which they will soon discover through participation in a first boxing competition. The older they get the major challenges they will have to face of which one day the biggest will be coming to terms with the end of their sporting career. Film that stems from the tradition of Polish documentary school is an impression of time passing and accepting the successive life roles.
Darling
dir. Izabela Plucińska | Poland, Germany 2013 | Animation | 6’ What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go back to the life that used to be her own. This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole.
Baths
dir. Tomek Ducki | 2013 | Animation | 4’ Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they are diving deeper than usual.
Mother 24/7
dir. Marcin Janos Krawczyk | 2013 | Documentary | 30’ Film is a journey into human hearts. It takes its origins from the copy of the picture of Black Madonna of Częstochowa that for the last 55 years has been traveling across Poland visiting cities and small villages. The Holy Picture of Black Madonna is left with families willing to host it for 24 hours…
Toto
dir. Zbigniew Czapla | 2013 | Animation | 12’ A story of a sensible boy, raised by a lonely and hard working mother, somewhere in a far province, where life revolves around daily, inveterate habits. The little protagonist is being deceitfully seduced by a shady “master” and cynical collector of keys. In consequence of the mystery and rather incomprehensible events, the world of his unconcerned childhood falls apart.
LODZ FILM SCHOOL The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz was founded in 1948 and has become one of the world’s most prestigious film schools not only because of its internationally acclaimed graduates such as Roman Polański, Andrzej Wajda or Krzysztof Kieślowski, but also because its main focus on the practical aspects in the fields of film directing, cinematography, production management, acting, scriptwriting, animation, film and TV production, photography, film editing, TV realization and digital media. Each year the school makes around 150 short films: fiction, documentary, animation and cinematographers films. It is the only film school in Poland which has film and television production facilities, film & TV studios, 35 mm and HD cameras, lighting equipment, postproduction line, screening rooms and a theatre.
Ab Ovo
dir. Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi | 2013 | Animation | 5’ Each woman possesses a beautiful and frightening fertility power. The film takes us into an intimate journey round a woman’s body.
The Heat
dir. Bartosz Kruhlik | 2013 | Fiction | 23’ 1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.
Luke and Lotta
dir. Renata Gąsiorowska | 2012 | Animation | 8,5’ A story about cone-girl Lotta and pear-boy Luke who go for a date.
Self (less) - portrait
dir. Matej Bobrik | 2012 | Documentary | 45’ The film addresses a personal crisis filmmaker went through, sparked by the sudden death of his mother. It portraits his girlfriend's effort to rebuild and refind the bond of love in the time of his despair. Film consists by the scenes from very personal places, shot with a mini DV cam and 8mm without crew, fully and truly made at home.
munk studio
dir. Jagoda Szelc | 2013 | Fiction | 23’ Miracle, Remedy, Regret, Prayer, Forgiveness - so we won't be afraid.
Munk Studio, which operates within the structure of the Polish Filmmakers Association, produces short and full-length debut films. Young artists who are seeking to make their first film can depend on Munk Studio for support and guidance during the entire process, from the development of their project, throughout its production under fully professional conditions, to the widest possible promotion of the finished product. Debut shorts can be made with the Munk Studio under the auspices of three programmes: “Thirty minutes”, “First Documentary” and “Young animation”. The Munk Studio was funded in 2008 by the Polish Filmmakers Association and operates on the strength of an agreement entered into with the Polish Film Institute, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Polish Television (Telewizja Polska S.A.).
Love Story
THIRTY MINUTES – PART I
Kigo
dir. Izumi Yoshida | 2013 | Animation | 6,5’ The film Kigo, depicting phenomena of nature specific for each of the four seasons, is an abstract visualization of Japanese poems called Haiku. Haiku employed in Kigo presents the value of common, everyday things whose beauty is the source of one‘s fascination. Evanescence and transience are features of the transforming universe. The universe, in turn, influences feelings, emotions, and admiration for the fleeting beauty.
Such a Landscape
dir. Karolina Specht | 2012 |Animation | 1,5’ A short, ironic story about love and relationships. What can you do with a broken heart?
The Easter Crumble
dir. Julia Kolberger | 2013 | Drama | 30’ Urszula is preparing a traditional Easter breakfast to welcome her daughter and her new fiancé. When the couple arrives, the man turns out to be thirty years older than Urszula's daughter. Easter breakfast turns into supper, while Urszula goes through the worst day of her life.
Before and After
dir. Edyta Sewruk | 2013 | 30’ Is a tragicomic yet sentimental story of love and farewell? Celina Chmura, age 30, is doing a career in the city and she hardly ever finds time to pay a visit back home. When she finally does, she is surprised to see that she has come just in time for the funeral. Whose funeral is it? She will have to discover it herself. And so will the audience of the movie. The funeral is an occasion for all the relatives and friends to meet. They differ in where they come from and what they stand for. From the perspective of death, their views and quarrels get a new, different meaning. The twisted plot of the movie will leave you with hope, that there are feelings stronger than death and that not all the farewells are forever.
How deep is the ocean?
dir. Filip Syczyński | 2013 | Comedy | 30’ Mark wakes up in a stomach of a huge whale. If that wouldn’t be enough: he also meets there all the people he’s once known in his life: his wife, his crazy father, who wants to be called King of the ocean! There are also other people living inside the gigantic whale amongst rusty aircrafts, ships and rockets – all of them curious how Mark managed to join them inside the stomach. And how did he get in there? On the surface the movie is a tale of solitude and the search for understanding and love, but under the surface the movie tackles the theme of contemporary impatience and the speed of living. Impatience is such a stormy ocean, which carries on its wave the patient ones, but devours the impulsive, and how deep is the ocean?
Rules of the Game
dir. Wojciech Jagiełło | 2013 | 30’ Tomasz is a first-year student of environmental engineering. He has come to the city from a small town and is trying to find his feet in the utterly unfamiliar surroundings of a large metropolis. He is also striving to establish himself amongst his fellow students in the first year. Which is no easy task for a lad from the provinces. Tomasz’s problems with adapting lead to the complete loss of his sense of security. And that becomes food for some nascent obsessions.
THIRTY MINUTES – PART II Chicken
dir. Aleksandra Terpińska | 2013 | 30’ Three mates, summer weekend at the lake... but things start to get a bit complicated. Feeling not so comfy anymore, friends turn one against another- bad instincts explode. The problem needs to be solved, and who's better in strategy then the three of them. And there it goes - the story of friendship, trust and fate.
The Boys
dir. Paweł Orwat | 2013 | 21’ A story of evil evolving in a human being, of human nature and of social isolation. Two teenage boys, Michał and Kid, plan to commit a random murder.
The Return
dir. Ewa Bukowska | 2013 | Drama | 30’ A soldier returns from another tour of duty in war-torn Afghanistan. He was there on a mission to “build a safe and secure home for other nations”. He has returned in order to use the money he earned on his tours of duty to finish building his own home. Will he succeed?
The 128th Rat
dir. Jakub Pączek | 2013 | Document | 30’ A black-humoured comedy about staying away from the rat race, and about a wry realisation that only idiots are capable of true happiness. Paweł Burak, a much frustrated theology student, declares war on oppressive reality.
Beat Frequency
dir. Arkadiusz Biedrzycki | 2013 | Document | 30’ Three women. One home. A shared and painful past. After seven years of living an emigrant‘s life, Natalia returns to Poland, where she left her daughter, Hela and her mother, Zofia, when she went abroad. She is ready to take on the role of a true mother. What she fails to realise, though, is that it is too late break into her daughter’s and mother’s world, the world she ran away from for years; a world once ruled by a father’s iron hand.
FIRST DOCUMENTARY Arena
dir. Piotr Bernas | 2013 | Document | 16’ What are the reasons underlying the human drive toward selfdestruction? What is the wellhead of motivation for a person who chooses a life involving perpetual struggle, self-harm and risking their health? Is the road of physical pain an escape route from other kinds of pain? And finally, what lies at the roots of the contemporary fascination with risk and aggression? Arena is a film project about contemporary games, arenas and gladiators.
NEW EUROPE FILM SALES The Visit
dir. Matej Bobrik | 2013 | Document | 11,5’ In a care home surrounded by magical forest deep in the middle of nowhere, the residents lead quiet, unruffled lives. Only Sundays seem to bring any variety. For Sunday is visiting day. On Sunday, the residents preparations for their families arrival start with the early morning. Yet with every passing hour their hope of seeing their loved ones dwindles. They have no choice but to believe that their visitors have lost their way in the forest. But they are sure to come next week.
Freestyle Life
dir. Adam Palenta | 2012 | Document | 10’ Freestyle life is a story of the art of putting up the fight, when the game involves the most competitive rivals – ourselves. Resistance to determinism leads towards stubborn challenging ourselves to consecutive duels. The surface of the screen that precisely keeps the viewer from reality resembles the surface of water that separates swimmers from their disability.
Is a boutique short film distributor based in Warsaw, Poland but working across the world. The company holds full Worldwide rights to a number of short films and sells licenses to TV, VOD, internet and mobile platforms on an exclusive and non-exclusive basis. Company works very closely with their filmmakers and buyers and only acquires films (animation, live action and documentaries) that they like and believe in. New Europe Film Sales aims at promoting and selling short films worldwide and working in the filmmakers best interest. Their focus is on Central and Eastern Europe but they also have a catalogue of Scandinavian films and world cinema.
La Isla
dir. Dominga Sotomayor & Katarzyna Klimkiewicz |2013 | 30’ A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening comes and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.
se-ma-for Moonshine
dir. Michał Poniedzielski | 2013 | Animation | 10’ A little guy named Szczepan slowly sinks into the realms of madness because of the tragic love that he feels towardsHelena, a cold-blooded temptress who rejects him without batting an eye. Instead, her eye is caught by something shinier. She asks for the moon. Szczepan embarks on a journey into the world on the edge of dream and reality to get her what she wants – unfortunately, the success of his mission is also his doom.
The Big Leap
dir. Kristoffer Rus | 2013 | 13’ Three people meet at the top of a skyscraper. They have the same intention - to commit suicide due to a major financial crisis. The conflict quickly deepens when they discover that they all represent a different conviction about the afterlife Sarah is the believer, John - the atheist and Ben the uncertain agnostic. The only way to find out who is right is to take The Big Leap.
The Game
dir. Marcin Janiec | 2011 | 5’ Somewhere between life and death a thrilling chess match takes place. The stake is high - a gateway to the world of living. And the judge is someone you would definitely not like to meet...
SE-MA-FOR is a Polish animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland, in 1947, it has created many animated cartoons and stop motion puppet animations, for young and mature audiences. The name, meaning literally Se-ma-phore, is an acronym of Studio Małych Form Filmowych - Studio of Small Film Forms. It’s most famous productions include the children‘s shows: „Miś Uszatek”, „Przygody misia Colargola”, „The Moomins” (pol.„Opowiadania Muminków”), „Troubles the Cat”, „Przygody kota Filemona”, „Przygód kilka wróbla Ćwirka”, „Zaczarowany ołówek” and the Oscar winner film „Peter and the Wolf”.
Good, Beauty and Truth
dir. Balbina Bruszewska | 2011 | 6’ „The good, the beauty and truth” is a story about modern world where interest in good, beauty and truth is loses with cheap sensation, drama of explosions, shooting and other “more interesting” things. It’s a story of a man who carries an idealized vision of the world, standing for his ideals and trying to transfer it to others. A Good Man suffers defeat in his naïve fight for good. However, in the end, the a glimmer of hope arise...
Two steps behind...
dir. Paulina Majda | 2010 | 8,5’ “Two Steps Behind...” is a story of a boy who one day makes a decision to leave his cottage.He sets out on a journey to a strange town he is fascinated with. There he has unusual experiences. He gets involved in strange relations,not always friendly. In the end, he returns to the place that he came from.
On/Off
dir. Piotr Ludwik | 2013 | 6,5’ Mr. Potato lives in typical, Grandma's, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, going to buy beer. Why should you lose time if you can spend it on watching TV? So Mr. Potato has everything organized, he lives peacefully and devotes himself to his passion - staring at the TV. But one day...
Underlife
dir. Jarosław Konopka | 2010 | 8,5’ „Underlife” is a film inspired by “Lullaby” directed by Krzysztof Komeda, which employs metaphor to show the destructive influence that ancestors have on man and poses a question if we are able to liberate from it. It raises the universal issue of subconscious
A Suitcase
dir. Jacek Łechtański | 2012 | 14,5’ “A Suitcase” is a short history of the world, history of civilization. It tells a story of an eternal conflict between nature and culture; story about the clash between the primeval, clean element with products of civilization. There is no winner and loser in this clash. There are no simple answers. All we can do is to ask questions. Does culture limit us or does it liberate us? Does the civilization, which was supposed to enrich us, create us or destroy? Finally, do the items, the creations of civilization and culture have become our servants or are we their slaves?
Short Waves Short Waves Allround is a series of polish short films screenings taking place all over Europe, built from resources of Polish Film Festival SHORT WAVES. The festival takes place every year in more than 30 Polish and some international cities, and focuses on the promotion of Polish short film, inviting the audience to vote for the best of the films. Short Waves Allround program is made up of interesting films that have participated in previous editions of the Festival. Demonstrations under the banner of Allround give an opportunity to see the best of Polish short films in places the Festival has not yet visited. Ad Arte Foundation - Short Waves organizer - prepares programs depending on the context and individual needs of the Partners. Purpose of Allround is consistent with the aim of the Festival: the promotion and presentation of Polish art short film. Organizer provides visual setting of the project, logistical support, and enables meetings with the creators of the films.
Franek
dir. Bartek Tryzna | Poland 2013 | 6' Franek is eight years old, has got rough hands and ears that are too big. One day his grandmother tells him something that will change his life forever.
Moko
dir. Marta Szymańska | Poland 2013 | 4,5’ "Moko" is a dynamic story about shapes, colours and Polynesian ornaments that derives from the region’s mythology. It‘s a variation about the Polynesian myth of the creation. The story of the first parents, the first lovers, is inundated into a multicolor visual and music impression.
Arena
dir. Martin Rath | Poland 2013 | 23’ A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and the unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But to whom do we have to prove of what we're made?
Edward
dir. Emilia Śniegoska | Poland 2013 | 11,5’ A heap of rubble from buildings bombed in wartime rises like a green forested wall outside the city which Edward has refused to acknowledge for 22 years. The hermit has built his shack and paths out of the bricks he digs nonstop from the ground and constantly handles. He can sell the metal he unearths in the process. He has no objections to the film about himself.
WAJDA SCHOOL Shame
dir. Karma Fryc | Poland 2012 | 6,5' Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.
Survey about women
dir. Mateusz Głowacki | Poland 2012 | 30’ A film about women recounted form Young men’s point of view. This humorous Picture of Young generation proves that the fiarer sex is a riddle males still cannot guess.
The see
dir. Zofia Dąbrowska | Poland 2013 | 5’ A short story about what we sometimes don’t see but what may really exist.
Wajda School has over 10 years. It was founded in Warsaw by Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski. It is based on film groups tradition and experience – method of group working and co-operation of different generations. They offer a unique combination of production and education for film professionals.
Joanna
dir. Aneta Kopacz I Poland 2013 | Documentary | 40' In the multitude of blogs on the Internet, one stands out and becomes the common topic of many conversations. The reason why so many people follow Joanna’s blog is because it teaches them how to be thoughtful and joyful. She describes her daily life with overwhelming honesty and accuracy. Her goals are as simple as a family trip to the lakes, her planning is as shortterm as to witness her little son riding a bike for the first time. Diagnosed with untreatable illness, Joanna promises her son that she will do her best to live for as long as possible. She writes down everything she might want him to learn from her when he grows up. With great visual poetry, the documentary portrays the simple and meaningful moments in the life of the family. The very few words spoken and the ones never uttered in the film make the message ultimately powerful and extremely subtle at the same time. It is a story of close relationships, tenderness, love and thoughtfulness.
Games
dir. Maciej Marczewski | 2013 | Fiction | 30' Games is a short feature based on Ireneusz Iredyński’s radio play Winda („The Lift”). The entire story is played out in a lift which has got stuck. There are two people stuck inside. They begin to play a startling game. They concoct a shared life, telling each other imaginary stories of their first romantic and amusing meeting and follow right through to the dramatic ending of their acquaintanceship. However, the fiction starts to become intertwined with their real-life experiences. Their harmless game metamorphoses into a drama seething with extreme emotions. The film depicts how painful and inexorable the games we play with those close to us can be, how we are sometimes incapable of dealing with issues from the past and just how great the power of our imaginations is.
Brother Dog
dir. Maria Zbąska | 2013 | Fiction | 30' Panabi is a 12-year old boy, who lives in a big block of flats in Warsaw. The block is ruled by Bocian, a ruthless young thug, who – as usual – dates the prettiest girl. Unfortunately, Panabi’s brother is crazy about Bocian’s girl. As Christmas draws closer, disaster looms. Brother dog, a loose adaptation of a short story by renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret, is a twisted Christmas carol set in a Polish housing estate
When I Am a Bird
dir. Monika Pawluczuk | 2013 | Documentary | 28' "When I Am A Bird", immersed in the world of fortune tellers and ghosts, tells the story of the attempt to change one's fate. MuLa, a Kayan woman, refugee from Burma, has been living in Thailand for two years with her husband and all her sons. On the other side of the border her only daughter is left. The mother wants to bring her over to a better world. The time of waiting, full of anxiety and tension, sets the rhythm and the atmosphere of the film.
NEW HORIZONS T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, established in 2001, is the biggest film festival in Poland and it is regarded as one of the most important film events in Central Europe. The festival presents uncompromising, innovative and original cinema from all over the world that explores new horizons in film language, expression and storytelling. The festival has four competitive sections and is accredited by FIPRESCI and by FIAPF as a Competitive Specialized Feature Film Festival. New Horizons has a strong focus on music and contemporary art and organizes live music concerts every evening and art installations and performances throughout the city.
Fragments
dir. Agnieszka Woszczyńska | 2014 | 25’ "Fragments" - a collection of loosely connected scenes, depicting a breakdown of a relationship and a collapse of the world to which the main female character is desperately clinging on to. Anna and her partner move into a modern apartment building. Their daily routine includes eating at snobbish restaurants, minimalistic interiors, and jogging in the morning – it is a prosperous and comfortable life, though their comfort has started to fade somewhat. This luxurious monotony is becoming a prison for Anna. She grows cold and desperately seeks experiences at the edges of her bourgeois lifestyle.
Trashhh
dir. Filip Syczyński | 2014 | Musical | 22’ A completely surreal musical about Antek and Jola, two garbage cans that, in spite of everything, fall in love. And so, can true love really occur in a landfill? A shamelessly funny story with a few terrifying moments, and with a special dance presentation in which, as one of the characters says, there are garbage cans, a musical, a comedy, a horror.
An Incredibly Elastic Man
dir. Karolina Specht | 2013 | Animation | 5’ A story of a man who was born without his own shape. Constant deformations and squeezing into someone else’s forms evoke a feeling of rebellion in him. Can he live completely independently from others and in isolation from reality? Who and what decides on who we actually are?
A blue room
dir. Tomasz Siwiński | Poland, France 2014 | Animation | 15’ Animation (Frame by Frame Glass Painting). A man wakes up in a blue room. It turns out that the room is locked and that it is impossible to get out. This is no ordinary room, however, as there is a window linking the room to the outside world that shows reality in an unexpected and mysterious way. A frantic race through events from the man’s life begins, but the purpose of this trip is unknown and difficult to predict.
Wojtek. The Bear That Went To War
Coming Out Polish Style
(Wojtek. Niedźwiedź, który poszedł na wojnę)
(Coming out po polsku)
dir. Will Hood, Adam Lavis | 2011 | Documentary | 59’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 12, English
dir. Sławomir Grünberg and Katka Reszke | 2011 | Documentary | 61’ Certificate (or suggested certificate) – 12, English
Cast: Irena Bokiewicz, Wojciech Narębski, Krystyna Ivell, Archibald Brown Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear cub found in Iran and adopted by soldiers of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps. He was fed and brought up by soldiers and he repaid for the human help. During the Battle of Monte Cassino, Wojtek helped to move the ammunition. The film tells his story and shows how important were his links with Scotland and the final journey of the last of Anders Army. People in the parish of Hutton, Paxton and Fishwick still remember Wojtek, and they have not forgotten the experience of meeting a very large brown bear and ambling with him along their county roads, as you would do with any other pet or friend.
Cast: Tomasz Raczek (film critic, publisher), Robert Biedroń (LGBT activist and politician), Marcin Szczygielski (writer, jouralist, graphic), Maciej Nowak (actor), Marta Konarzewska
Film followed by a Q&A session with Krystyna Szemelukowa, one of the trustees of the Wojtek Memorial Trust.
"Coming Out Polish Style" offers a rare look into the lives of gays and lesbians in contemporary Poland. The film explores the issue of gay and lesbian rights in a conservative society, which is undergoing a very dynamic transformation, allowing for more and more successful liberal changes. The documentary focuses on the diverse and complex identity struggles involved in the process of 'coming out'. It profiles both celebrities who are openly gay in Poland, as well as young people from small towns who are still in the process of 'coming out'. Coming Out Polish Style features several characters who share their intimate experiences of 'coming out' as gays or lesbians and of the dramas and joys involved in the process of becoming true to oneself and finding integrity in the world.
EDINBURGH – 11TH November, 5.45pm, Filmhouse
LONDON – 6TH November, 6.30pm, UCL - Room 433
ART EVENTS DURING PLAY POLAND FESTIVAL
With every edition PPFF is getting more and more important as a visual arts event. This year Edinburgh will welcome Tomasz Płonka with his solo exhibition. Tomasz Płonka is a young artist, whose graphical art is highly appreciated in Poland. What other art events has Play Poland prepared for the year 2014?
Movie poster exhibitions
are a permanent part of PPFF. Very popular exhibits mainly include works of Polish Poster School representatives like Jakub Erol, Franciszek Starowieyski or Jan Młodożeniec. Presented posters not only demonstrate the great style and class of polish artists all over the world, but also are a precious prove of the opposition to censorship.
Tomasz Płonka's exhibition will begin on the 10th of October in Meow Photography Studios in Edinburgh. The art will take the viewers into the world of children's cartoons; they will deform the image of their characters and ask questions about their status and identity. The opening will come together with the opportunity to meet the artist and revealing a wall painting.
„The Reborn babies” exhibition
curated by Magdalena Swacha in cooperation with Paula Czyżak and Marta Hutkowska will take place in Meow Studios between 9th and 16th of October. Works of Marcelo Zamenhoff, Seweryn Swacha, Anka Leśniak, Michal Jankowski, Arti Grabowski and Diana Ronnberg using different, daring artistic media talk about identity in a multicultural world. This problem is especially important in Scotland – country, that still fights for its identity and is inhabited by lots of immigrants – also from Poland.
"Through The Director's Eye" photography exhibition
curated by Prof. Krzysztof Hejke The photographs taken by students of film directing are the result of exploration and knowledge of the technological possibilities of "painting with a light". “ - That is why I introduce my students to various technologies to be used as tools for describing the world or expressing emotions. These skills are to help them in making movies, works more complex than photography itself” This exhibition presents a part of our activities. …but that's not all! You can find more information about art events on our constantly updated website www.playpoland.org.uk
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9 October - 22 November 2014
EDINBURGH
Summerhall - Summerhall Pl, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH Filmhouse Cinema - 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ Screen Academy - 2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU Meow Photography Studios, 86-92 Causewayside , Edinburgh, EH9 1PY
Date
Event
Venue
Time
Ticket
09.10.2014
"Life feels good" by Maciej Pieprzyca followed by a Q&A with the director
Filmhouse cinema
6:00 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
10.10 - 16.10.2014
"Unborn children" exhibition by Polish artists, Tomasz Płonka’s exhibition
Meow Photography Studios
7:00 pm
free
11.10 - 24.10.2014
"Through the director's eye" photography exhibition curated by Prof. Krzysztof Hejke
Filmhouse Cinema Corridor Gallery
15.10.2014
"Munk Studio - Thirty Minutes" - part I Special Screenings
Summerhall
6:30 pm
£ 4.50 full £ 3.50 concession
16.10.2014
"Floating skyscrappers" by Tomasz Wasilewski
Filmhouse cinema
6:15 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
21.10.2014
"Wajda School" - Special Screenings
Screen Academy
6:00 pm
free
22.10.2014
"Krakow Film Foundation" - Special Screenings
Summerhall
6:30 pm
£ 4.50 full £ 3.50 concession
23.10.2014
"Papusza" by Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze
Filmhouse cinema
5:45 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
25.10 - 07.11.2014
Polish School of Posters - "Polish cinema posters" exhibition
Filmhouse Cinema Corridor Gallery
29.10.2014
"Short Waves" - Special Screenings
Summerhall
6:30 pm
£ 4.50 full £ 3.50 concession
30.10.2014
“Apnea” by Andrzej Bart
Filmhouse cinema
6:15 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
free
free
Date
Event
Venue
Time
Ticket
05.11.2014
"O!PLA across the Borders" animations & "Munk Studio - First documentary" - Special Screenings
Meow Photography Studios
6:30 pm
free
06.11.2014
DOUBLE BILL "Parasite" and "It looks pretty from a distance" by Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal
Filmhouse cinema
5:45 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
08.11 - 22.11.2014
Polish School of Posters - "Family cinema posters" exhibition
Filmhouse Cinema Corridor Gallery
11.11.2014
"Wojtek. The bear that went to war" by Filmhouse cinema Will Hood & Adam Lavis, followed by a Q&A with Krystyna Szemelukowa, one of the founders of the Wojtek Memorial Trust.
5:45 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
12.11.2014
"New Horizons" and "New Europe Film Sales" - Special Screenings
Meow Photography Studios
6:30 pm
free
13.11.2014
"Kebab and Horoscope" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Filmhouse cinema
5:45 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
18.11.2014
"Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty/ Katowice Film School" - Special Screenings
Screen Academy
6:00 pm
free
19.11.2014
"Munk Studio - Thirty Minutes" - part II - Special Screenings
Meow Photography Studios
6:30 pm
free
20.11.2014
"The last oor" by Tadeusz Król
Filmhouse cinema
5:45 pm
£ 8.20 full £ 6.00 concession
free
Additionally we are preparing special events: workshops and more Q&A’s meetings with filmmakers. Follow us at www.playpoland.org.uk and facebook
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10 October - 30 November 2014
glasgow Date 10.10.2014 10.10 - 23.10.2014 17.10.2014 24.10.2014 24.10 - 06.11.2014 31.10.2014
05.11.2014 06.11.2014 07.11.2014
Event
Grosvenor Cinema - 24 Ashton Ln, Glasgow, G12 8SJ GFT (Glasgow Film Theatre) - 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB Sikorski Polish Club - 4/5, Parkgrove Terrace, Glasgow, G3 7SD Venue
Munk Studio - Thirty Minutes - part I - Special Screenings Sikorski Polish Club Polish School of Posters - "French comedy posters" exhibition Sikorski Polish Club
Time
Ticket
7:00 pm
free
7:00 pm
free
"Wajda School" - Special Screenings "Krakow Film Foundation" - Special Screenings Polish School of Posters - Jerzy Flisak's exhibition
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
"Short Waves" - Special Screenings A DOUBLE BILL "Parasite" and "It looks pretty from a distance" by Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
GFT
5:25 pm
free £8.00 full, £6.50 conc, £7.00 Cinecard full, £5.50 Cinecard conc
Grosvenor Cinema
6:45 pm
£ 9.70 full £ 7.00 conc
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
"Floating skyscrappers" by Tomasz Wasilewski "O!PLA Across the Borders " & "SE-MA-FOR" - Special Screenings
Date 07.11 - 20.11.2014
Polish School of Posters - Andrzej Pągowski's exhibition
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
12.11.2014
"Kebab and Horoscope" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
GFT
6:25 pm
Grosvenor Cinema
6:45 pm
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
Grosvenor Cinema
6:45 pm
free £ 9.70 full £ 7.00 conc
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
13.11.2014 14.11.2014 20.11.2014 21.11 - 30.11.2014
21.11.2014
"Life feels good" by Maciej Pieprzyca "New Horizons" and "New Europe Film Sales" - Special Screenings "Papusza" by Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze Polish School of Posters "Hungarian Cinema Posters" "Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty/ Katowice Film School" - Special Screenings
free £8.00 full, £6.50 conc, £7.00 Cinecard full, £5.50 Cinecard conc £ 9.70 full £ 7.00 conc
26.11.2014
“Apnea” by Andrzej Bart
GFT
6:15 pm
£8.00 full, £6.50 conc, £7.00 Cinecard full, £5.50 Cinecard conc
27.11.2014
"Ida" by Paweł Pawlikowski
Grosvenor Cinema
6:45 pm
£ 9.70 full £ 7.00 conc
28.11.2014
"Lodz Film School" - Special Screenings
Sikorski Polish Club
7:00 pm
free
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23 October - 15 November 2014
London Date 23.10.2014 24.10.2014 24.10.2014
26.10.2014
cafe1001 - 91 Brick Ln, London, E1 6QL Hackney Attic - 270 Mare St, London, E8 1HE Hackney Picturehouse - 270 Mare St, London, E8 1HE Clapham Picturehouse - 76 Venn St, London, SW4 0AT Stratford Picturehouse - Salway Rd, London, E15 1BX UCL - Room 433, SSEES - School of Slavonic and East European Studies Taviton, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT
Event Venue PLAY FULL opening night: Special screening: SHORTS and dIP audio-visual performance by IP Group cafe1001 "Hardkor Disko" by Krzysztof Skonieczny followed by a Q&A with the director Hackney Picturehouse
Time
Ticket
6:30 pm 6:30 pm
TBC £10.60 full, £9.60 conc, £8.60 member
głębokiOFF Videoclip party Special screening: Animations for Children in collaboration with Wandsworth Libraries' Diversity Month
9:00 pm
Free for ticket holders
26.10.2014 - 16.11.2014 Polish School of Posters: Jakub Erol's Exhibition Special Screening: All you need to know about Polish 29.10.2014 shorts
Hackney Attic
Clapham Picturehouse
TBC
Free
Clapham Picturehouse
12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Free
Hackney Attic
7:00 pm
£5
30.10.2014
"Floating Skyscrappers" by Tomasz Wasilewski PLAY OUT in collaboration with Out at Clapham
Clapham Picturehouse
7:00 pm
£10.50 full, £9.50 conc, £8.50 member £12 full, £11 conc, £10 member £6.50 full, £5.50 conc, £4.50 member
2.11.2014
“Apnea” by Andrzej Bart
Clapham Picturehouse
1:30 pm
4.11.2014
Clapham Picturehouse
6:30 pm
6.11.2014
“Life feels good” by Maciej Pieprzyca "Coming Out Polish Style" by Slawomir Grünberg & Katka Reszke PLAY OUT in collaboration with eMigrating Lanscapes and Women Online Writing
UCL, Room 433
6:30 pm
8.11.2014
"Parasite" by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal
Hackney Picturehouse
6:30 pm
9.11.2014
“The last Floor” by Tadeusz Król
Stratford Picturehouse
5:00 pm
Free £10.60 full, £9.60 conc, £8.60 member £8.60 full, £6.60 conc, £5.60 member
10.11.2014
Clapham Picturehouse
7:30 pm
Free
15.11.2014
Special screening: SHORTS "Kebab and Horoscope" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk preceded by the screening of the winners of In Short Film Festival 2014
Clapham Picturehouse
6:30 pm
£12 full, £11 conc, £10 member
15.11.2014
PLAY FULL after party with Polish funk jazz
Clapham Picturehouse
9:00 pm
Invitations only
During the Festival
Aditionally we are preparing special events: Photo exhibitiions by Karina Będkowska and Izabela Rembisz, music concerts by local music bands and performers. Detailed information will be published at: www.playpoland.org.uk, social media accounts
sunderland
North Shore - St Peters Campus, Charles Street, Sunderland, SR6 0AN David Puttam Media Centre - St Peters Campus, Sunderland, SR6 0DD
Date
Venue
Time
Ticket
North Shore Sunderland
7:00 pm
free
North Shore Sunderland David Puttam Media Centre
7:00 pm 5:00 pm
free free
15.10.2014 15.10.2014 10.11.2014
Event "Munk Studio - Thirty Minutes" - part II - Special Screenings Film Film Poster Exhibition - "French cinema posters" "Kebab & Horoscope" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
aberfeldy
The Birks Cinema - 1 Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, PH15 2DA
Date
Event
Venue
Time
19.10.2014
"Life feels good" by Maciej Pieprzyca
The Birks Cinema
6:00 pm
23.10.2014
"Ida" by Pawe Pawlikowski
The Birks Cinema
5:15 pm
02.11.2014
"Papusza" by Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze
The Birks Cinema
6:00 pm
Birmingham Date
Event
19.10.2014
"Hardkor Disko" by Krzysztof Skonieczny
24.10.2014
"Life feels good" by Maciej Pieprzyca "Papusza" by Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze
28.10.2014
Ticket £ 7.50 full £ 6.50 conc £ 5.50 disabled £ 7.50 full, £ 6.50 conc £ 5.50 disabled £ 7.50 full £ 6.50 conc £ 5.50 disabled
mac Cinema - Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH Venue Time Ticket £ 7.50 full mac Cinema 6:00 pm £ 5.50 conc £ 7.50 full mac Cinema 8:30 pm £ 5.50 conc £ 7.50 full mac Cinema 8:30 pm £ 5.50 conc
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Edinburgh Art Fair
EAF 2014
14 - 16 November
Edinburgh Corn Exchange New Market Road : EH14 1RJ Doors Open 11am Daily Admission ÂŁ5/3
www.artedinburgh.com
60 Galleries 500 Artists 3 Days Only!
Please find more info about events programme at www.playpoland.org.uk