09/04/2015 - Scheduled to unspool on 25 and 26 April, the event will honour director and actor Jerzy Stuhr

Delft, The Hague and Tilburg will play host to the seventh edition of the Polish Film Spring in the Netherlands, which is set to unspool on 25 and 26 April. The gathering has chosen to invite filmmaker and actor Jerzy Stuhr as a special guest, who will present his latest opus as director, Citizen (Obywatel) [+see also:
trailer
film profile], as the opening film.

Stuhr is known by Dutch film buffs in particular for his collaborations with his fellow countryman Krzysztof Kieslowski. Indeed, he acted in Three Colours: White and Camera Buff (for which he also co-wrote the dialogue). He also made a splash recently in We Have a Pope [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile] by Italian director Nanni Moretti. In the context of the seventh Polish Film Spring in the Netherlands, Jerzy Stuhr will also be appearing on the big screen in Jacek Koprowicz’s thriller, Mystification [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jacek Koprowicz
film profile]. Interestingly, in this movie, as in Citizen, he rubs shoulders with his son, Maciej Stuhr, one of the big stars of the younger generation of Polish actors.

Also featuring on the menu of this edition of the Polish Film Spring are Gods [+see also:
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film profile] by Lukasz Palkowski (the big winner at the Eagles for Polish cinema last month), No Matter How Hard We Tried by Grzegorz Jarzyna and Kebab & Horoscope [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Grzegorz Jaroszuk.

The films will be on offer in three cinemas: the FilmHuis Lumen in Delft (which organised the event together with Stichting Pools Podium), the Laaktheater in The Hague and the Euroscoop in Tilburg.

(Translated from French)