05 Mar 1997 Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski France, Poland, Norway 1991 Weronika, a talented young singer in Poland, dies suddenly from a heart condition during a concert. Meanwhile, in France, Véronique, her identical double, experiences a strange sense of loss and decides to abandon her singing career. Unaware of each other’s existence, their lives are mysteriously… Continue reading The Double Life Of Veronique
Tag: Poland
The Pianist
5 Nov 2003 UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland 2002 150 min Director: Roman Polanski The true story of celebrated composer and pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. At the outbreak of World War Two, Szpilman’s world changes from that of concert halls is to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw. In the brutality and devastation of occupied Warsaw he… Continue reading The Pianist
Katyń
2 Dec 2009 Director: Andrzej Wajda Poland 2007 122 min Director Andrzej Wajda takes a unique dramatic examination on the tragic story of Katyn. In the spring of 1943 the advancing German army uncovered 4,400 bodies in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. The majority of the dead were Polish officers and soldiers executed by Stalin’s… Continue reading Katyń
Ashes And Diamonds
17 Feb 1988 Director: Andrzej Wajda Poland 1958 103 min Brilliantly directed award-winning drama of political assassination.
Cold War
01 Apr 2020 – Cancelled due to COVID Director: Paweł Pawlikowski Poland 2018 88 mins Cold War is a tumultuous love story about two people who,despite their overwhelming passion for each other, are fatefullymismatched. In a series of evocative episodes set across Poland,Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris in the 1950’s, we follow the lives ofsinger Zula… Continue reading Cold War
Loving Vincent
4 Apr 2018 Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman UK, Poland 2017 95 min Animator Hugh Welchman and his wife, Dorota Kobiela, have brought together 65 000 oil painted frames produced by 115 professional artists to form this stunning cinematic achievement billed as the first fully painted feature film in the world. On the 29th July… Continue reading Loving Vincent
Ida
3 Feb 2016 Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Poland, Denmark 2013 82 min In the 1960s, novitiate nun Anna is about to take her vows in the Catholic Church when the Mother Superior insists that she must visit her aunt Wanda, who reveals that Anna’s real name is Ida. It is the first in a chain of… Continue reading Ida
I Never Cry
19 January 2022 Poland/Ireland 2020 Director: Piotr Domalewski Writer-director Piotr Domalewski’s touching drama tackles the subject of mass economic emigration within Europe when Poland joined the European Union. Thousands, then millions of Poles moved abroad for work, often separating them from their children who came to be referred to as ‘Euro-orphans’. I Never Cry follows… Continue reading I Never Cry
Mr Jones
05 January 2022 Poland/UK/Ukraine 2019 Director: Agnieszka Holland Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland tells the extraordinary story of the real-life Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine. Almost 10 million were killed during what became known as The Holodomor of 1932 and 1933. Gareth Jones gained fame, in 1933, from being the first foreign… Continue reading Mr Jones