24/04/2015 - From Malgorzata Szumowska to Agnieszka Holland, and from young cinema to classic films, Polish movies are being showcased at Berlin and Wiesbaden

Malgorzata Szumowska

Polish cinema made quite the splash on the international stage recently thanks to the Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film earned by Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida [+see also:
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interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
film profile] and the Silver Bear that Malgorzata Szumowska’s Body [+see also:
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interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
film profile] snagged at the Berlinale. Incidentally, these two films are featured on the programme of the tenth edition of the FilmPolska Festival in Berlin, which got under way on Wednesday. Also standing out on the menu are a Special Screenings section dedicated to horror films (Docteur Jekyll et les femmes by Walerian Borowczyk, Possession by Andrzej Zulawski and The Dark House by Wojciech Smarzowski), a programme devoted to the art of cinematography, with Krzysztof Ptak (Papusza [+see also:
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Agnieszka Holland will be a special guest at FilmPolska and will be honoured with a retrospective of her works; also, as part of a section focusing on new Polish films, audiences will be able to discover such titles as Hardkor Disko [+see also:
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interview: Krzysztof Skonieczny
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film profile] by Aleksandra Gowin and Ireneusz Grzyb, Walesa: Man of Hope [+see also:
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film profile] by Andrzej Wajda and Warsaw 44 [+see also:
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interview: Zofia Wichlacz
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Polish cinema is also in the spotlight at Wiesbaden, at the 15^th goEast Festival, which is taking place until 28 April. Three titles are taking part in the official competition: Body by Malgorzata Szumowska, Kebab and Horoscope [+see also:
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film profile] by Grzegorz Jaroszuk and the co-production Under Electric Clouds [+see also:
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film profile] by Alexey German. The programme also includes such titles as Gods [+see also:
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film profile] by Lukasz Palkowski, The Citizen [+see also:
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film profile] by Jerzy Stuhr, In Search of the Lost Landscape by Leo Kantor, and Domino Effect [+see also:
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film profile] by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski, not to mention a number of classics, such as The Eighth Day of the Week by Aleksander Ford, A Love in Germany by Wajda and Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland.