The Seattle Polish Film Festival presents a special screening at SIFF Cinema of the movie The Wedding Day / Wesele (2021), directed by Wojtek Smarzowski and starring Robert Więckiewicz, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra and Arkadiusz Jakubik. The movie takes on some fundamental issues related to the Polish national character and
The Polish Cultural Center and the Seattle Polish Film Festival present the movie Battle of Warsaw 1920 / 1920 Bitwa Warszawska (115′), directed by Jerzy Hoffman and starring Daniel Olbrychski as Józef Piłsudski. In Polish with English subtitles. This 2011 film depicts the pivotal moment of the Polish-Bolshevik war of
The Seattle Gdynia Sister City Association presents the movie Pilot Pirx’s Inquest / Test Pilota Pirxa (1978, 95′), dir. by Marek Piestrak and based on the short story by Stanisław Lem The Inquest from the Tales of Pirx the Pilot / Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie series. The movie is about “finite non-linears,”
The 29th Seattle Polish Film Festival returns after the pandemic induced hiatus in 2020. The SPFF is the second oldest Polish film festival in the USA, after the Polish Film Festival of America in Chicago, running since 1992. The festival is produced by the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association. As usual,
To celebrate the Year of Stanisław Lem, the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee and the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association present the movie Hospital of the Transfiguration / Szpital przemienienia, directed by Edward Żebrowski. This 1979 film is a haunting WWII drama based on Lem’s novel of the same title. There
Polish Cultural Institute New York and MUBI present a selection of Stanisław Lem centennial movies that have been showing at other places as well. This series spotlights mostly sci-fi movies based on Lem’s work with the haunting WWII drama Hospital of the Transfiguration added to the mix later. The series
The SIFF virtual cinema presents the Polish movie Never Gonna Snow Again / Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie (2020, 113′) directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska and Agata Kulesza. The streaming is available from August 13, 2021. Never Gonna Snow Again is a
The Seattle International Film Festival streaming presents the 2020 film Charlatan directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Ivan Trojan. This fascinating 2020 movie tells a true story of Jan Mikolášek, a very well-known traditional healer in post WWII Czechoslovakia, who with his uncanny diagnostic skills and herbal mixtures to treat
Polish Public Television TVP and its U.S. film distribution partner, Fathom, present a nationwide screening of the 2019 documentary movie Of Animals And Men directed by Łukasz Czajka. Fandango shows that the film is available at multiple cinema theaters in Seattle, on Eastside and other local cities and towns on June 22,
The Cinematheque in Vancouver, BC presents another Stanisław Lem (1921, 2006) movie retrospective that includes the first biographical documentary about the famous writer: Author Solaris / Autor Solaris directed by Borys Lankosz. Borys Lankosz, of the Reverse / Rewers fame, presents a thorough biography addressing many of the less discussed
Update: online screening extended again, this time till June 30. This year, the New York Polish Film Festival is also presented virtually! The 16th edition will take place from May 26 – 29, 2021 at the Scandinavia House Theater, New York, and from May 29 to June 6 – online.
Austin Polish Society presents the Pola Negri Film Festival – “Early Years”. Pola Negri (1897-1987), the famous silent film star was born Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec in Poland and started her career in Warsaw theatres. She made her first movie in Poland in 1914, with eight other by 1917. Then she
PFF Miami presents a movie program celebrating the centennial of the famous Polish sci-fi writer, essayist, philosopher and futurist Stanisław Lem (1921-2006). Perhaps best known worldwide as the author of the 1961 novel, “Solaris,” Stanisław Lem produced dozens upon dozens of novels, stories and essays throughout his nearly 60-year career.
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York presents Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema, bringing together the best new works from Poland’s boundary-pushing filmmakers. The series, starting on Friday, April 30 through Thursday, May 6, features seven films, including the New York premiere of the Venice
The 2021 Seattle International Film Festival is all virtual. This year, only one Polish feature movie is in the program; it is Sweat directed by Magnus von Horn and starring Magdalena Koleśnik. This 2020 movie was featured at the Cannes Film Festival, among others. The film recounts three days in
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival presents the film about Stanisław Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician (2020, 102′), directed by Thor Klein. Dr. Ulam was a Polish-American who participated in the WWII Manhattan Project and later made crucial theoretical and design contributions to the development of the hydrogen bomb. His family
Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2021 and NW Film Forum present the movie Triple Trouble / Tarapaty 2 (2020, 87′) directed by Marta Karwowska. Triple Trouble is a family (age 9+) heist and who-done-it movie featuring adventures of teenager detectives Julka and Olek familiar to the audiences from the 2017 Double
The Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC and The Bender JCC association invite you to the 2019 documentary movie Of Animals And Men directed by Łukasz Czajka. Of Animals and Men tells the true story behind the 2017 feature film, The Zookeeper’s Wife. Two years after the release that movie,
The Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival present the special Holocaust Commemoration Day with the movie My Name Is Sara screening for four days, from January 25 to 28, and the discussion panel on January 28. The movie directed by Steven Oritt
The California Film Institute presents a selection of international movies submitted to the 2021 Oscars. The program includes the Polish movie Never Gonna Snow Again / Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie (2020, 113′) directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska and Agata Kulesza. The