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 program called For Your Consideration, A Celebration of World Cinema presents about 30 movies from different countries. Never Gonna Snow Again is a subversive comedy
The New York 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 in Poland perished in the Holocaust. Stanisław Ulam was a brilliant mathematician and a member of the famous Polish Lwów School of Mathematics, active
Anthology Film Archives and Polish Cultural Institute NY present the program Avant-Garde Films By Polish Female Artists of the 1970s that includes short films by Izabella Gustowska, Iwona Lemke-Konart, Jolanta Marcolla, Natalia LL, Ewa Partum, Jadwiga Singer, Teresa Tyszkiewicz. Total running time is about 100 minutes. The 1970s represented a period of revival in Polish art, which manifested itself in artists’ interest in new media, among other aspects. An especially striking feature of the art
The Polish Film Festival of America in Chicago plans to announce the festival winning movies on Saturday, December 19, 2020. The winners will be available for streaming over this weekend, that is on Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20. On top of that, the Festival has announced that one additional movie will be available for screening over the same weekend: My Wonderful Wanda / Moja wspaniała Wanda, starring Agnieszka Grocholska It’s a family comedy produced in
The Museum of the Moving Image and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present a program of five non-fiction movies Millennium Docs Against Gravity NYC. Few national cinemas have authored and challenged definitions of nonfiction film more persistently than Polish cinema. From Marcel Łoziński and Krzysztof Kieślowski to Anna Zamecka and Michał Marczak, the legacy of Polish nonfiction is long and consistently dynamic, led by both observational and narrative impulses, anthropological rigor and hybridized transgression.
This is another Polish movie program presented by the PFF Miami and the Polish Embassy. The three movie program includes The War of the Worlds – no, not about an invasion of Martians on the planet Earth but the invasion of the Bolshevik Russia on Poland in 1920. The War of the Worlds / Wojna światów, a very interesting documentary on the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920 created by Mirosław Bork and Krzysztof Talczewski, is based
Polish Cultural Institute New York and Anthology Film Archives present a 2021 Oscar hopeful animated movie Kill It And Leave This Town / Zabij to i wyjedź z miasta directed by Mariusz Wilczyński. This is a North American premiere on the film and a two-week streaming run in the USA required to submit a movie to the Academy Awards. The last Polish contender in the Best Animated Feature category was Loving Vincent nominated in 2017. This
The Polish Film Festival of America in Chicago, the first (since 1989), the best, and the biggest of the Polish movie festivals in the United States is on! This year, it has a hybrid form due to COVID-19. That is, some movies will be screened in an actual cinema theatres in Chicago, while some others will be available through streaming. The festival will even feature some movies that have not been released yet in Poland
The 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF) in Ann Arbor, Michigan goes completely online this year, and presents jury-awarded documentaries and short film as well as a selection of feature films and Q&A sessions with filmakers. The AAPFF is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund – Ann Arbor in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the University of Michigan Polish Student Association. The program includes the following movies and interviews available for screening from 4
Update: APFF has been extended through December 27, 2020 with new movies added to the schedule. This pandemic autumn has become a great season to watch Polish movies in the USA with streaming offers coming from many places. Austin’s is another Polish film festival that decided on the hybrid formula that includes streaming of several films along with screening at a local cinema. Feature movies, shorts and documentaries as well as an interview are available
The embassies of the Visegrad Group countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary) in the United States present the 9th edition of the Visegrad 4 Film Series. Each country contributed one outstanding recent movie to the main program described in a separate message above. However, the series also has the Kid Corner with the following children movies that can be screened from the PFF Miami website: Oct 15-28 Bolek and Lolek (1972), 2 episodes from the Wild
The embassies of the Visegrad Group countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary) in the United States present the 9th edition of the Visegrad 4 Film Series. Each country contributed one outstanding recent movie to the program that can be streamed from the PFF Miami website: Oct 15-22 Corpus Christi / Boże Ciało (2019), Poland, 116′, dir. by Jan Komasa Oct 15-22 Amnesty / Amnestie (2019), Slovakia, 130′, dir. by Jonáš Karásek Oct 22-28 Havel (2020), Czechia, 103′, dir. by Slávek Horák
The Polish Film Festival Miami and the Podkarpackie Film Commission present four documentaries exploring the Podkarpackie region – the south east highland corner of Poland with the Beskidy Mountains and Bieszczdy. Open Range / Wypasionay Raj (2017) by Rafał Gużkowski The Residents of Moczary / Moczarowi mieszkańcy (2016) by Rafał Gużkowski Master and Apprentice / Mistrz i uczeń (2020) by Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz The Armorer Must be a Musician / Płatnerz musi byc muzykiem (2017) by Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz Editor’s note. All these
The Polish Film Festival Miami and the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC present a cinematic retrospective Late Summer Nostalgia. All movies in Polish with English subtitles. There are four movies in the program and that includes a children adventure movie with 12-year old heroes. That movie, Double Trouble, is available for streaming for two weeks, other movies are available for a week each, all of them stream for free. 8/27 – 9/2 Goodbye, Till Tomorrow / Do widzenia, do jutra (1960)
The Amazon original movie studio presents Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi based on the graphic novel by Laurel Redniss of the same title. This 2019 biopic of the double Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie (nee Maria Skłodowska) features a brilliant performance by Rosamund Pike as Madame Curie with Sam Riley as Pierre Curie. The film script is apparently a bit overloaded, but it highlights all the key moments of her life including discovery of polonium and radium,
In a rare show of Polish movies for kids in the USA, the Polish Film Festival Miami and the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC present a special event Animations for Vacations with three animated short movies in one screening. All movies in Polish, versions with English subtitles available The movie lineup is as follows 13′ Milek From the Black Forest / Miłek z Czarnego Lasu 13′ Flax / Len 13′ It’s Quite True! / To pewna wiasomość