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"RÓŻYCZKA" AND "REWERS" IN MOSCOW

Moscow, 32nd International Moscow Film Festiwal, June 17-26, 2010 Two Polish films have qualified for this year's International Moscow Film Festiwal: Jan Kidawa-Błoński's "Różyczka" and Borys Lankosz's "Rewers"...

THE QUAY BROTHERS' "MASKA" ON THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

Edinburgh, June 21-22, 2010 Created at the Se-ma-for studio, "Maska" is an adaptation of a collection of writings by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem. The film takes place in a technologically advanced, albeit feudal, world. The merciless Duenna - a robot who impersonates a human female - embarks on a mission to the remote kingdom to find and destroy a dissident scientist...

WHO NEEDS CULTURE ANYWAY?

Warsaw, Instytut Teatralny, June 17, 2010, 12:00 pm On February 25, Citizens for Culture issued a petition to the Polish government calling for an increase of at least 1% of the national budget for government spending on culture. Together with the Citizen's Institute Foundation (Instytut Obywatelski) they have organised the debate "What does a Country Need Culture For?"...

FAREWELL: ELŻBIETA CZYŻEWSKA (1938-2010)

New York City, June 17, 2010 Polish actress and emigree Elżbieta Czyżewska died in New York City on June 17, 2010 at the age of 72. Czyżewska was a popular movie and television star in Poland in the 1960s whose magnetic spirit won her a dedicated audience in her homeland and the United States...

KOMEDA IN "KULTURA"

Warsaw, Kino "Kultura", June 10, 2010 The night's program will include a discussion on the nature of Krzysztof Komeda's output, the screening of a documentary "Komeda - muzyczne ścieżki życia" directed by Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy, and an exhibition of posters from Roman Polański's films. Michał Urbaniak will round up the night with a concert...

CORSO POLONIA 2010

Rome, May 14 - June 9, 2010 It's already the 8th edition of "Corso Polonia" Festival organized by Polish Cultural Institute in Rome. Corso is an annual event designed to promote Polish culture, music, and art. For the first time in its history, the Festival takes place in spring, in the seat of Polish Institute, a newly renovated Palazzo Blumenstihl located on the banks of Tiber...

POLSKA! YEAR

United Kingdom, March 2009 - Spring 2010 POLSKA! YEAR comprises over 200 projects introducing the most interesting achievements of Polish culture and works of the most outstanding Polish artists to the British public. Gala inauguration: April 30, 2009...

AWARDS AT 2010 POLISH FEATURE FILM FESTIVAL

Gdynia, Award ceremony: May 29, 2010 Jan Kidawa-Błoński's film "Różyczka" received the Golden Lion award at the 2010 Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia. The award is presented to the best Polish Film of the Festival. The Silver Lion Award went to Marcin Wrona for his second feature movie "Chrzest". Janusz Morgenstern received the Award for the life-time achievent...

35th POLISH FEATURE FILM FESTIVAL 2010

Gdynia, May 24 - May 29, 2010 21 movies entered the main competition, while 15 other films will be shown as part of the Panorama of Polish Cinema. The 35th PFFF will open with a special screening of the newest animation of Tomasz Bagiński "Animated History of Poland", which until now was screened only once - at the Polish Pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China. Other highlights include a review of Iclandic and Norwegian films and a concert of Jan Garbarek...

"FILM MATTERS"

Greece, Athens, Beton7 Center for the Arts, April 29 - May 20, 2010 "Film Matters" examines the dialectics of the two titled matters - including negotiation between the double meaning of the word - material and content. With the participation of non-filmic and filmic artists it attempts an overview of the critical and conceptual gestures of disappointment with material, presenting works in which form is reduced or minimized to its matter, and approached from unusual points of departure...

PLANETE DOC REVIEW 2010

Warsaw, Kinoteka, Muranów, Iluzjon, May 7-16, 2010 The program of the 7th Planete Doc Review festival, which will run between May 7 and 16, 2010 in Warsaw's Kinoteka cinema includes over 100 films arranged into 11 different thematic sections: Political Science, Fetish and Culture, Intimate Stories, Future doc-shock, Heroes among Us, Middle East, Media and You, Climate for Change, Promised City, China Reloaded, ART DOC – Muse and Inspiration as well as Doc Alliance. One of the biggest events of this year’s Planete Doc Review will be the visit of Werner Herzog...

"SOLIDARNOŚĆ, SOLIDARNOŚĆ"

Belfast, Queen's Film Theatre, May 12, 2010 To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, the first non-communist party controlled trade union in a Warsaw pact country, legendary director Andrzej Wajda brought together 13 outstanding Polish directors to shoot a series of short films, which express their personal thoughts about the social movement which changed the face of Europe...

"ROMANCE IN LIGHT: FRYDERYK CHOPIN AND THE CINEMA"

New York, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, January 8 - May 8, 2010 Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin's birth, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Cultural Institute present a series of films inspired by the life and art of the great Polish composer...

NEW YORK POLISH FILM FESTIVAL 2010

New York, Anthology Film Archives, April 30 - May 4, 2010 The festival opened to the public on Friday, April 30, with the New York premiere of Ryszard Bugajski's "General Nil" (2009) and "Andrzej Wajda: Let’s Shoot!", a documentary on the making of Andrzej Wajda’s "Katyń" (2007). The centerpiece of the 2010 NNYPFF was the hommage to the legendary Polish filmmaker Janusz Morgernstern. Morgenstern was also presented with the Honorary Award "50 years in Cinema", while his newest film "Lesser Evil" won the Audience Award. The main award of the Festival went to Jacek Borcuch's "All that I Love"...

11TH POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, April 20 - May 2, 2010 The Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles which continues to grow each year by screening more films and drawing larger crowds, is meant to celebrate the achievements of Polish filmmakers promoting Polish film and Polish culture in Hollywood. At the Gala Opening at the Egyptian Theater on April 20, "The Children of Irena Sendler" ["Dzieci Ireny Sendlerowej"] by John Kent Harrison is going to be presented. On April 23, a special screening of "Katyń" (2007) by Andrzej Wajda and "The Officer's Wife" (2010) by Piotr Uzarowicz has been planned...

NEW POLISH CINEMA AT THE 11TH KINOFILM FESTIVAL

UK, Manchester, April 27 - May 2, 2010 The 11th edition of the Kino Film Festival, now Kinofilm Manchester European Short Film Festival, focuses on New Polish Cinema. There are two programmes of short films from Poland and a Polish Documentaries Programme. Highlight of the Polish Focus is "Piggies / Świnki", the controversial new film about today's youth selling their souls for their future, from award-winning director Robert Gliński...

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "JEWISH MOTIVES" 2010

Warsaw, Kino Muranów, April 20 - April 25, 2010 The Festival is devoted to the problems of Jewish people, their traditions, national and cultural identity, its history and contemporary situation. The Festival audience will have an opportunity to see films like "Pizza in Auschwitz" by Moshe Zimerman, "Baluty Ghetto" by Pavel Stingl, "An Ordinary March" Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, "8 Stories That Didn't Change The World" by Ivo Krankowski...

"filmPOLSKA" 2010

Berlin and Potsdam, April 15 - April 21 around 100 films from Poland. The Festival encompasses the whole range of new Polish cinema including the newest feature and documentary releases, school etudes, a review of films from Opus Film studio, and a film series dedicated to Polish trade union "Solidarność", celebrating now its 30th anniversary. Apart from screenings, lectures, discussions, and workshops with film-makers and cinematographers are also programmed...

TWO NIGHTS WITH MIRON BIAŁOSZEWSKI

New York, The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church and Nuyorican Poets Cafe, April 19-20, 2010 The evening at the Poetry Project will be the first public reading of Białoszewski in the US presenting a range of his work - from his poetry, and the diaristic "Reports from Reality" to the unconventional "Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising". On the following night, guests of Nuyorican Poets Cafe will have an opportunity to see a feature film about the writer and Jadwiga Stańczakowa, his blind secretary and a long-time friend...

CONDOLENCES

National Mourning: April 10 - April 17, 2010 Condolences sent by friends of Adam Mickiewicz Institute...

ARCHFILMFEST SPRING 2010

Toruń, Kino Centrum and Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, April 12-15, 2010 This film festival is dedicated to architecture, each edition presenting selected topics in contemporary architecture and culture. This spring, it's Deconstruction architecture, with film on Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and others. The screennings will be accompanied by discussions and lectures from invited guests...

"KINOTEKA" FESTIVAL IN LONDON

London, March 4 - April 13, 2010 Now in it's 8th year, the Kinoteka Polish Film Festiwal, returns to London with another stellar line up offering up the very best of Polish culture spanning film, music and the visual arts. Th programme features films by Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Wajda, brothers Quay, and Xawery Żuławski, a concert by Tomasz Stańko, video art by Anna Molska, and many more...

"AFTER.LIFE" IN CINEMAS IN THE U.S.

Theatrical release in the U.S.: April 9, 2010 "After.Life" is a feature-film directorial debut of an up-and-coming Polish director, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Written by Wojtowicz, Paul Vosloo and Jakub Korolczuk, this edgy, masterful work of Polanskiesque suspense provocatively asks one of the fundamental questions: What happens to us after we die? Starring Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson...

FESTIVAL OF CULTURE ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF COMMUNISM

New York, November, 2009 - March, 2010 Polish Cultural Institute in New York will organize eleven Polish cultural events as part of the Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe Festival, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism...

DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT GÓRECKI ON BBC FOUR

BBC Four, March 26, 2010, at 8 pm. BBC Four will broadcast a documentary about Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Arvo Pärt, two most renowned composers of religious music in the Eastern Europe. The film is part of the second series of the acclaimed 'Sacred Music' produced by BBC...

IWASZKIEWICZ PANORAMA IN ROME

Rome, February 25 - March 14, 2010 Andrzej Wajda's film "Tatarak" / "Sweet Rush" based on a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz received a popular acclaim from Italian critics at last year's Berlinale Festival 2009. Now, in February 2010, Polish Institute in Rome opens a grand Panorama of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz...

"BEATS OF FREEDOM" IN CINEMAS

premiere: March 11, 2010; in cinemas: March 12, 2010 Entrancing documentary about rock music in the age of late Polish People's Republic. The legendary figures of rock underground speak out about their music, life, and the absurds of censorship. From the very beginning, Polish rock opposed the social and political reality of the period. Singing songs was about undermining stereotypes and building closer ties between people...

"RABBIT À LA BERLIN" NOMINATED FOR OSCARS

Los Angeles, Award ceremony: Los Angeles, March 7, 2010 "Rabbit à la Berlin" by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski is nominated for the world's most prestigious film award - Academy Awards in the Short Documentary category...

POLAŃSKI'S "THE GHOST WRITER" AT BERLINALE

Berlin, February 20, 2010 Roman Polański awarded with the Silver Bear - Best Director prize for his newest film "The Ghost Writer". The film premiered on February 12 at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and a week later on February 19, entered movie theatres in Poland, Switzerland, and in the US...

AGATA BUZEK - SHOOTING STAR 2010

Berlin, Berlinale Palast, February 15, 2010 Polish artist received the award - a statuette of Maria from Fritz Lang's 1927 movie "Metropolis" - for her role in Borys Lankosz's movie "Reverse". The ceremony took place at the 60th International Berlinale Film Festival in Berlinale Palast...

FESTIVAL OF POLISH MOVIES FROM THE COMMUNISM TIME

New York, Walter Reade Theater, February 3 - February 11, 2010 A review of Polish movies from the the late 1970s to the fall of Communism - "Storm warnings: Resistance and Reflection in Polish Cinema, 1977-1989" - will present the masterpieces of that period...

AWARD FOR THE FILM ABOUT KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA

Biarritz, France, February, 2010 A film directed by Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy about Polish jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda has been awarded the FIPA D'ARGENT Prize at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programms in Biarittz, France. The documentary essay concentrates around the film music composed by Krzysztof Komeda and how it relates to the life of the composer...

"ALL THAT I LOVE" AT SUNDANCE

Utah, Sundance Film Festival, January 21 - January 31, 2010 Jacek Borcuch's new film "All That I Love" was admitted to the competition at Sundance Film Festival. It's the first Polish film ever to screen in the competition at this festival...

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI'S "THE ESSENCE OF KILLING"

Start of the film shooting: January 3, 2010 Jerzy Skolimowski's new film will be shot in Israel, Norway and Poland. "The Essence of Killing" follows a story of a Talib convict escaping from his captors in Europe. Vincent Gallo will play the main part...

17th POLISH FILM FESTIVAL "PROWINCJONALIA 2010"

Września, January 27 - January 30, 2010 "Prowincjonalia" has been dubbed a festival of peripheral or outsiders’ cinema - and indeed it presents feature and documentary films that concentrate on the life in the country and small towns; it presents original and highly artistic cinema promoting simple, universal values, subtle narratives, and serene esthetics...

VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF IN POLAND

Łódź, Warszawa, Lublin, Katowice, Wrocław, Kraków, Gdańsk, November 30, 2009 - January 24, 2010 At this year's Plus Camerimage Festival in Łódź (November 28 - December 5, 2009), Volker Schlöndorff, the German director who won the first Oscar for post-war Germany, will receive an award for lifetime achievement. To mark the occasion, the Plus Camerimage Festival, the Goethe-Institut in Warsaw, and the National Film Archive are holding a nation-wide retrospective of Schlöndorff's films in Poland...

"MIRACLE SELLER" IN PALM SPRINGS

Palm Springs International Film Festival, California, January 5 - January 18, 2010 "Miracle Seller / Handlarz Cudów" directed by Jarosław Szoda and Bolesław Pawica was invited to the 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival - one of the most important American flim festivals. The film is a story of a recovering alcoholic conman (Borys Szyc) who gives a lift to two fierce Dagestani children who've fled a refugee camp, the ensuing road trip changes all their lives...

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION FOR ABEL KORZENIOWSKI

Los Angeles, Award Giving Ceremony, JAnuary 17, 2010 Korzeniowski was nominated for the original soundtrack from Tom Ford's "A Single Man". The Golden Globe 2010 for best music was awarded to Michael Giacchino for the soundtrack from the animated movie "Up"...

"POLITYKA" PASSPORTS 2009

Warsaw, Teatr Wielki, January 12, 2009 The winners of the latest, 17th edition of the "Polityka" Passports have been announced. Awards in all six categories: film, literature, visual arts, classical music and pop-music, were presented during a grand gala at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw...

9th IFF "WATCH DOCS"

Warsaw, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, cinema "Muranów", December 4 - December 13, 2009 Warsaw's 9th annual International Film Festival WATCH DOCS is set to open on December 4, 2009. The festival competition offers the Warsaw premieres of the world's top documentary films broadly related to issues of human rights...

REVIEW OF POLISH FILMS IN CUBA

Havana, Cuba, December 3 - December 13, 2009 The review presents nine recent Polish film productions, made over the past three years. This is the Cuban premiere for all the films, and the Spanish-speaking world premiere for seven of them.

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS' AWARDS FOR WAJDA AND ŁOZIŃSKI

Bochum, Germany, Award ceremony: December 12, 2009 Andrzej Wajda received the European Film Academy Critics’ Award 2009 - Prix FIPRESCI, and Marcel Łoziński won the award in Short Film category. Wajda received the award for his latest movie "Tatarak", which earlier this year had won the Alfred Bauer Award for innovation in film-making at the 59th Berlinale...

FILM RETROSPECTIVE OF WOJCIECH HAS

London, October 1-25; Edynburgh, October 12 - November 15; Brighton, November 21 - December 6; Manchester, December 3, 2009 On October 1, the London's Barbican Center will open a retrospective of the Polish award-winning director Wojciech Has. The review will include Has's 1957 debut movie "The Noose" as well as the famous surrealist "The Saragossa Manuscript"...

PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2009

Łódź, November 28 - December 5, 2009 The Golden Frog, the main award at the 2009 PLUS CAMERIMAGE Film Festival, went to an Israeli film "Lebanon" directed by Samuel Maoz, and with cinematography by Giora Bejach. Wojciech Smarzowski's "Dom zły / The Dark House" and Borys Lankosz's "Rewers / Reverse" collected the Silver and Bronze Frog Awards, respectively...

THE AWARDS OF THE 21ST POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN AMERICA

Chicago, November 22, 2009 Jacek Bławut's "Before Twilight" was awarded the Golden Teeth 2009 for best movie, while Bartosz Konopka's "Rabbit à la Berlin" won the award for best documentary. More than 70 Polish films, including animations, documentaries, and feature movies, have been shown in Chicago during the past two weeks...

7th WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIWAL

Warsaw, November 24 - November 29, 2009 The 7th edition of the Festival starts in "Kinoteka" on November 24, 2009 with the screening of "Yentl", an award-winning film by Barbra Streisand. The screenings of the festival films will be complemented by educational lectures and meetings in the cinema "Świt"...

CORSO POLONIA 2009 FESTIVAL OF POLISH CULTURE

Rome, October 24 - November 27, 2009 This is the 7th time that the Polish Institute in Rome is organizing the Corso Polonia festival of Polish culture, under the patronage of the offices of the City and Province of Rome, in association with many Italian institutions and Polish and foreign missions...

PO-LIN. POLISH DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON HOLOCAUST

Paris, Mémorial de la Shoah, November 12 - November 24, 2009 The Festival launches with a screening of a documentary by Joanna Dylewska entitled "Po-lin". The film depicts the everyday life of Jews in Poland just prior to the Holocaust. It comprises archival footage made by a group of American Jews who, in 1930, came to Poland on a family visit, camera in hand. What they captured on tape is shown in Dylewska's film...

21. POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN AMERICA

Chicago, November 6 - November 22, 2009 Jacek Borcuch's "Everything That I Love" and Rafał Wieczyński's "Popiełuszko. Freedom Is Within Us" will open the 21. Polish Film Festival in America (PFFA), one of the world's biggest annual programmings promoting Polish cinema. This year the program of the Festival will focus around the 20. anniversary of the fall of communism in Poland...

AWARD FOR "BEATS OF FREEDOM"

Chicago, Polish Film Festival in America, November 22, 2009 "Beats of Freedom" by Leszek Gnoiński and Wojciech Słota received a special award of the Jury at the 21st Polish Film Festival in America. The film was co-produced by Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

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