Kinoteka 2020
18th Polish Film Festival (London)
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- DirectorMarjane SatrapiStarsRosamund PikeYvette FeuerMirjam NovakThe incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
- DirectorJan KomasaStarsBartosz BieleniaAleksandra KoniecznaEliza RycembelDaniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
- DirectorLukasz KosmickiStarsBill PullmanLotte VerbeekJames BloorDuring 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsIrene DunneMelvyn DouglasThomas MitchellThe author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
- DirectorMichal RosaStarsBorys SzycMagdalena BoczarskaJan MarczewskiThe year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Pilsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.
- DirectorBorys LankoszStarsMagdalena CieleckaRafal MackowiakModest RucinskiReporter Alicja Tabor returns to Walbrzych, the city of her childhood. There she will go back to all her hardcore family secret dramas, and start investigating a sinister case related to the disappearance of children.
- DirectorMarcin KrzysztalowiczStarsPawel WilczakSebastian StankiewiczMaria SobocinskaAnything is possible in Warsaw rising from the war rubble in 1953. The omnipresent uncertainty, denunciations, and the sense of constant surveillance are tamed with the help of vodka and good company. A renowned writer, Mister T. lives in a hotel for authors and makes a living by giving extra lessons. One day, a young countryside man moves into the next-door flat with big dreams of working as a journalist. Mister T. becomes his mentor and teacher. The pace of the protagonist's life quickens once the authorities begin to suspect him of an evil wish to blow up the Palace of Culture and Science, and Secret Police agents start to watch every move he makes. It is hard to stay serious in this ridiculous reality.
- DirectorTomasz SzafranskiStarsKamila BujalskaAlicja DabrowskaWeronika KaczmarczykTwo kids bring in a rock-and-roll fugitive from another world pursued by merciless bounty hunters, and in order to save his life they have to find a way to send him back to where he came from.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarlene DietrichCharles BoyerTilly LoschThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
- DirectorMalgorzata ImielskaStarsZofia DomalikMaria SobocinskaMalwina LaskaOlka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
- DirectorMichal WegrzynStarsPiotr WitkowskiAgnieszka WiedlochaEwa ZietekTomas Chada was a good guy at heart, great with rhyme and poetry, which lead him to becoming a rapper, well known in Poland. This story shows how he went through his suicidal stage to his pride days.
- DirectorPawel ZiemilskiIn Touch is a story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ''land of thousand lakes''. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80's and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into new lives on the other side of Europe. The distance separating them is great and the journey expensive, so they don't get to hug each other very often. The best alternative is intensive contact by Skype.
- DirectorMatej BobrikLittle Poland is a coming-of-age story that follows one year in the life of a group of Japanese students who decide to sign up for Polish Language and Culture Studies at the University of Tokyo.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaJolanta DylewskaStarsMarek EdelmanAleksandra PoplawskaMarek KalitaA Holocaust survivor remembers love as experienced in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- DirectorJacek BorcuchStarsKrystyna JandaKasia SmutniakAntonio CataniaThe stable family life of a poetess begins to fall apart as she makes a controversial speech to appreciation.
- DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsRaffey CassidyMichiel HuismanDenise GoughA girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward SkórzewskiStarsAndrzej LapickiHenryk BoukolowskiThe perils of alcohol: parents ruin the lives of their children because of drinking.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward SkórzewskiStarsJerzy Wasowski
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward SkórzewskiMass Catholic pilgrimage to the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Sanctuary where amateur actors perform the Passion of the Christ.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward Skórzewski
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriAdolphe MenjouRod La RocqueAlexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.