FROM POLAND WITH SHORTS: CALLING AT LONDON
This weekend, London will be playing host to FROM POLAND WITH SHORTS, a mini-festival of Polish shorts, compiled by the Munk Studio under the auspices of Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The Munk Studio’s project sets out to present the work of Poland’s youngest generation of filmmakers abroad. The London opening will take place on Saturday 17th September. The two-day programme offers audiences a varied bill of short features, animations and documentaries. It includes films which have already received numerous screenings and awards at international festivals, some of them produced by the Munk Studio and Wajda Studio under special programmes for young filmmakers. It also encompasses études made by students at Poland’s national film schools in Łódź and Katowice, as well as independent productions.The mini-season concludes on Sunday 18th with a special screening of the digitally restored version of Andrzej Munk’s Eroica. Thus the Munk Studio commemorates the 50th anniversary of the director for whom it is named.
After London, the mini-festival departs for Moscow, where it can be seen from 28th-30th October 2011 at 35 Cinema Hall. It then travels on to Berlin, where it will form part of the Polish Autumn between 1st and 4th December, after which it leaves for Paris and screenings during the Festival du Cinema Polonais from 7th-13th December.
London programme details:
PART 1
Two Steps Behind… dir. Paulina Majda
Three for the Taking, dir. Bartosz Konopka
Play with Me, dir. Rafał Skalski
Mother, dir. Jakub Piątek
PART 2
Underlife, dir. Jarosław Konopka
Grandma Has Gone, dir. Tomasz Jurkiewicz
A Piece of Summer, dir. Marta Minorowicz
Echo, di. Magnus von Horn
PART 3
Noise, dir. Przemysław Adamski
Luxury, dir. Jarek Sztandera
Out of Reach, dir. Jakub Stożek
What the Doctors Say, dir. Michał Wnuk
SPECIAL SCREENING
EROICA (Heroism), dir. Andrzej Munk
The screenings will be held at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL).
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