“Erase the Nation”, directed by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, is a documentary showing the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage by Russian Federation troops since the invasion began on February 24, 2022. This powerful film highlights the devastation inflicted on museums, monuments, archaeological sites and sacred places such as the cathedral in Odessa, all ruthlessly destroyed by Russian forces who are trying to rewrite history in the name of the chauvinist ideology of “Great Russia”. It also presents
The UW Ukrainian Students United and the Ukrainian Association of Washington State present a film screening of the award-winning “Mr. Jones” to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Holodomor, Stalin’s famine-genocide that starved millions of Ukrainians to death between 1932 and 1933. The movie “Mr. Jones” directed by Academy Award winner Agnieszka Holland is a powerful drama that highlights the life of the journalist Gareth Jones and his courageous efforts to uncover the truth about the Holodomor. It serves
European Film Festival Seattle invites movie fans to its first edition with “FRONTLINE: POLAND MOVIE SERIES”. The festival, produced by the Society For Arts, will be run over two Saturdays of November 4 & 11. All movies in Polish with English subtitles will be presented at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, November 4, 2023 2:15 PM The Hunting / Polowanie, by Paweł Chmielewski, 2023 4:45 PM Feast Of Fire / Święto ognia,
The 2023 Seattle Polish Film Festival comes as usual in October as another opportunity to watch recently produced Polish movies at SIFF venue. The festival will be run over two October weekends, 13-15 and 20-22. The following is the schedule for the first weekend. All screenings for the first weekend are at the SIFF Film Center. Friday, October 13: 6pm – Swarm / Rój – drama 2023 8pm – It came from the water |
This is a special kickoff event of the 31st Seattle Polish Film Festival coming on October 13-22! Watch shorts created by students from Gdynia Film School, have a glass of wine (on SPFF), get a festival pass 50% off (one night only offer!) or win one of the 3 full festival passes in our raffle! This is a free event, so see you there! These are shorts screened at this event: Resurrection | Wskrzeszenie directed
Michal Pietrzyk, the local director and producer of the award-winning documentary “All on a Mardi Gras Day” has produced a new outstanding documentary in Africa, now showing in Seattle. SIFF presents the feature documentary film “Between the Rains” (83′), Executive Produced by Michal Pietrzyk, and directed by Andrew Harrison Brown and Moses Thuranira. Filmed over 4 years, this visually stunning documentary is a coming-of-age story of a tribal boy in a traditional Kenyan culture that
The 2023 New York Polish Film Festival has extended till July 15 the streaming of viewing selected movies in the contiguous United States. Online watching is $9. The streaming program includes the following movies: Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni / Dangerous Men (2022, 110′), Dir. by Maciej Kawalski, crime comedy Braty / Brothers (2022, 122′), Dir. by Marcin Filipowicz, poetic tale about coming-of-age Chleb i sól / Bread And Salt (2022, 100′), Dir. Damian Kocur Filip (2022, 125′),
The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival is at our doors. This year, SIFF will show two Polish films, “Pianoforte” and “Filip“, and also an American movie “Late Bloomers” with a Polish immigrant as one of the main characters. “Pianoforte“, directed by Jakub Piątek (“Prime Time” 2021, “Users” 2018), is about the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and young musicians from all over the world who are ready to prove their dedication to classical
The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival is at our doors. This year, SIFF will show two Polish films, “Pianoforte” and “Filip” and also an American movie “Late Bloomers” with a Polish immigrant as one of the main characters. “Filip“, directed by Michal Kwiecinski (“Tomorrow We’re Going To The Movies” 2007, “Extras” 2006), breaks every film cliché about the Nazi era and the Holocaust. It is an unexpectedly sharp, jagged character study about a handsome young Polish Jew
The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival is at our doors. This year, SIFF will show two Polish films, “Pianoforte” and “Filip” and also an American movie “Late Bloomers” with a Polish immigrant as a main character. From SIFF alum and Audience Award winner Lisa Steen comes this dark comedy about a depressed Brooklyn slacker (Karen Gillan, “Dual”) who breaks her hip and goes into physical therapy, where she begins an unlikely friendship with an 86-year-old
Seattle Polish Film Festival presents the 2021 movie “Brigitte Bardot Forever” / “Brigitte Bardot cudowna“, by the renowned director Lech Majewski (“The Mill and the Cross“, “The Garden of Earthly Delights“, “Angelus“). The film stars are Kacper Olszewski, Magdalena Różczka and Joanna Opozda. The movie has won several awards at the international festival circuit in 2021 & 2022. The mid-20th century in communist Poland. Adam lives with his mother, who is persecuted by the state
Northwest Film Forum presents Agnieszka Smoczynska’s acclaimed film “Fugue / Fuga”. Her earlier film “The Lure / Córki dancingu” made a huge splash at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival. “Fugue” is a powerful 2018 drama about a woman who lost her identity and the memories of her prior life. It was directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska (“The Silent Twins”, 2022) with the screenplay written by the fantastic main actress Gabriela Muskała (“Courage /Wymyk” ,2011; “These
The UW Slavic Department presents a lecture “Third Cinema in the Second World: Images of Anti-colonialism in the Polish People’s Republic” by Dr. Marla Zubel. This talk locates key elements of the politics and aesthetics of Latin American Third Cinema in anti-colonial reportage films made in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. The point is not to posit an alternative origin of a form of militant cinema first conceptualized by Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the movie “Radioactive“, directed by Marjane Satrapi based on the graphic novel “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout” by Laurel Redniss. This movie screening is part of a cycle of events about Marie Curie that includes an exhibition “The Lady of the Radium” and a lecture “Madame Curie – Destiny Fulfilled” by Hanna Karczewski, both at the University of Washington in Seattle. The
If you missed the movie at SIFF, this is your chance. Northwest Film Forum presents the newest movie directed by the great Jerzy Skolimowski, “EO”. The film has won a Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Festival (as a cowinner) and is the official entry from Poland to the 2023 Oscars, in the Best International Feature category. Eo, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus
SIFF Cinema Uptown presents the newest movie directed by the great Jerzy Skolimowski, “EO”. The film has won a Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Festival (as a cowinner) and is the official entry from Poland to the 2023 Oscars, in the Best International Feature category. Eo, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian
The Seattle Polish Film Festival is back! The festival turns thirty this year, as it was created in 1992 by Michal Friedrich and Tom Podl with the help of Christopher Kamyszew and the Polish Film Festival in America in Chicago. This is the second oldest Polish film festival in the United States, after the Chicago festival. The festival starts with the “Vodka and the Drop of Art” event on October 13, 2022. Screening will be
Another tradition comes back! The Seattle Polish Film Festival presents its kickoff party, and a festival fundraiser event, Vodka and a Drop of Art. On the art side, this year you will get the chance to discover the originality and creativity behind the SPFF posters throughout the years. They will be available this night only, along with the photos from previous festivals. See if you can find yourself in any of those and reminisce about
If you missed it earlier, this is a reminder that Polish Cultural Institute New York and MUBI still present a selection of Stanisław Lem centennial movies. The series can be viewed on the movie platform MUBI, with a 30-day free trial period and different availability in different countries. In United States, the movies can be watched till July 31, 2022. For me, The Congress was hands down the best movie to watch. The Congress (2013,
Seattle Internation Film Festival presents the famous Three Colors trilogy by the Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski. The movies, inspired by the French tricolor of blue, white and red are intricate riffs on the motto of Liberté, égalité, fraternité that the colors symbolize. The movies, starring Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacobs, have been newly remastered to the 4k quality. All three movies screen at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. The movies were set to