Play Poland Film Festival

Cinema-lovers will have a real feast this autumn: the biggest mobile film festival promoting contemporary Polish film will visit Glasgow, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Oxford, Newcastle, Belfast and Sunderland. The festival’s viewers will have a chance to watch, among others: the best Polish feature films of the last years, best short films and animations as well as unique exhibitions of Polish film posters of the socialist era.

The programme of the event is rich and diverse. On top of the screenings of carefully selected latest Polish full length films, the viewers can also expect the showings of the most interesting shorts created in among others Andrzej Wajda’s Film School, acclaimed at the Polish and international documentary and animation film festivals. The Play Poland festival will also host meetings with Polish filmmakers. The exhibition of the Polish posters for the American films ‘Poster of imagination’ will show a collision of two cultures – the colourful and glamorous Hollywood with the grey, poor and very plain, yet original in its artistic expression, Polish culture before the 80s’. The monographic exhibitions will show the works of such renowned artists of Polish school of posters as Jerzy Flisak.

15th October, 7.30
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Wajda School (62’)
- Paparazzi dir. Piotr Bernaś, 34'
- 3 dni wolności/3 Days of Freedom dir. Łukasz Borowski, 28'

15th October, 9.00 pm
Wajda School (55’)
- Andrzej Wajda: Róbmy zdjęcie!/ Andrzej Wajda: Let’s shoot! dir. Maciej Cuske, Thierry Paladino, Marcin Sauter, Piotr Stasik, 55’

16th October. 7.30 pm
FEATURE SHORTS
Polish Filmmakers Association Studio Munka (63’)

- Hanoi-Warszawa / Hanoi-Warsaw, dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Poland 2009, 30' (MUNK)
- Ciemnego pokoju nie trzeba się bać / Don't be Afraid of the Dark Room, dir. Kuba Czekaj, 33'

16th October, 9.00 pm
The Katowice Film School (WRiTV) (58’)

- Wiem kto to zrobił / I Know Who Did It, dir. Jan P. Matuszyński, Poland 2008, 26’
- Portier z hotelu Mewa/ A Porter from Mewa Hotel, dir. Michał Janów, Polska 2012, 32'

22nd October, 7.30 pm
ANIMATIONS
Platige Image (60’)

- Mantis dir.Grzegorz Jonkajtys, 5' 35"
- Undo dir. Marcin Waśko, 2' 45"
- The Catedral dir. Tomek Bagiński, 6' 38"
- The Kinematograph dir. Tomek Bagiński, 12' 12" (2) (new europe film sales)
- Sztuka Spadania/Fallen Art dir. Tomek Bagiński, 5' 40"
- Moloch dir. Marcin Pazera, 7' 20"
- The Chick dir. Michał Socha, 5' 05"
- Teaching Infinity dir. Jakub Jabłoński i Bartek Kik, 14' 50"

22nd October, 9.00 pm
New Horizons Festival (44’)

- Esterhazy, dir. Izabela Plucińska, Polska 2009, 25' (New Europe Film Sales)
- Switeź/ The Lost Town of Switez dir. Kamil Polak, Poland 2010, 20’ (New Europe Film Sales)

23rd October, 7.30 pm
FEATURE SHORTS

Wajda School (67’) - Aria Diva reż. Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 30'
- Trójka do wzięcia/ Three for the Taking dir. Bartek Konopka, 37'
23rd October, 9.00 pm

Film Mountain Festival (43’)

-Twist&Blood, dir Kuba Czekaj, Poland 2010, 32'
-List/The letter, dir Jakub Janz, Poland 2011, 11'