CO-FINANCED BY: KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE FROM PROMOTION OF CULTURE FUND AND POLISH FILM INSTITUTE
Freedom With No Borders
Please note that these films will be screened in Polish language only (with audiodescription for the blind and with subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing):
- 300 Miles to Heaven
- Camera Buff
- Blind Chance
- Loving Vincent
- From a Night Porter's point of View
The remaining films (History in Moving Pictures) will be screened in both Polish and English.
300 Miles to Heaven
Director: Maciej Dejczer
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Ptak
Country: Poland, Denmark, France
Year: 1989
PLEASE NOTE! This film is screened in Polish language only. Grześ, aged 12, and Jędrek, aged 15, decide to follow...
Artur Grottger: Forging of War Scythes
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
The insurgents fighting in the January Uprising of 1863 included artists. One of them was Artur Grottger, whose frail health...
Blind Chance
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Pakulski
Country: Poland
Year: 1981
PLEASE NOTE! This film is screened in Polish language only. 20-year-old Witek rushes through a crowded station to catch his...
Camera Buff
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cinematographer: Jacek Petrycki
Country: Poland
Year: 1979
PLEASE NOTE! This film is screened in Polish language only. It’s 1970s Poland, and Filip Mosz, a supply clerk from...
From A Night Porter’s Point Of View
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cinematographer: Witold Stok
Country: Poland
Year: 1977
PLEASE NOTE! This film is screened in Polish language only. A portrait from 1970s Poland of a factory watchman obsessed...
Horace Vernet: Battle of Somosierra
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
Napoleon Bonaparte has swept his armies across Europe. Participation in the Napoleonic wars gives Poles hope of overthrowing the partitioning...
Jacek Malczewski: Christmas Eve in Siberia
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
Even the semblance of a call for Polish freedom was ruthlessly repressed by Russia. Freedom fighters were sentenced to death...
Jan Matejko: Rejtan, or the Fall Of Poland
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Paweł Flis
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
In 1773, clutching at assorted pretexts, Russia, Austria, and Prussia annexed a third of the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth....
Loving Vincent
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Cinematographer: Tristan Oliver, Łukasz Żal
Country: Poland, UK
Year: 2017
PLEASE NOTE! This film is screened in Polish language only. There are films that are shot as if they were...
Maksymilian Gierymski: Insurrectionary Patrol
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
The January Uprising of 1863 was another patriotic effort in the fight for Polish independence. It was the longest uprising...
Stanisław Kaczor – Batowski: Józef Piłsudski’s Riflemen Entering Kielce
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
The First World War broke out in 1914. A Polish patriot, Józef Piłsudski, decided to make the most of the...
Stanisław Masłowski: Spring of 1905
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
The Russian empire bleeds in the war with Japan that began in 1904. The patriotic movements in Poland rise up...
Wojciech Kossak: Battle of Olszynka Grochowska
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
In November 1830, a group of young patriots from the infantry cadets school in Warsaw’s Łazienki Palace complex initiated an...
Wojciech Kossak: Emilia Plater Skirmishing at Szawle
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Paweł Flis
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
The November Uprising, an act of patriotic rebellion against Russia initiated on 29 November 1830, also encompassed Lithuania. Emilia Plater,...
Wojciech Kossak: Kościuszko’s Oath on the Main Market Square of Kraków on 24 March 1794
Director: Marek Brodzki
Cinematographer: Paweł Flis
Country: Poland
Year: 2017
It is 1794. Partition has twice carved up the territory of Poland. Tadeusz Kościuszko, a hero of the war against...
