IFI & KINOPOLIS POLISH FILM FESTIVAL 2018

The IFI & Kinopolis Polish Film Festival returns for its 13th season from December 6th to 9th with a programme of films from one of Europe’s strongest and most prolific national cinemas. Individual festival tickets cost €11 and a festival multi-pass, four festival films for €38, is available in person or by phone from the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477.

KINOPOLIS: A CAT WITH A DOG + Q&A

This film screened on 6th December 2018. Estranged brothers Janusz (Robert Więckiewicz) and Andrzej (Olgierd Łukaszewicz) are both acclaimed filmmakers. When word is received that Andrzej, the elder of the…

Thursday 6th Dec 2018 18.30

KINOPOLIS: PANIC ATTACK

This film screened on 7th December 2018. Paweł Maślona’s blackly comic first feature mirrors the multiple narrative approach of films such as Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993) or compatriot Jerzy…

Friday 7th Dec 2018 18.20

KINOPOLIS: NINA

This film screened on 7th of December 2018. Winner of the Big Screen award at this year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival, Olga Chajdas’ debut feature is a story of love…

Friday 7th Dec 2018 20.30

KINOPOLIS: ETHER

This film screened on 8th December 2018. An auteur of the same generation as directors such as Krzysztof Kieślowski and Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Zanussi’s films tend to examine questions of…

Saturday 8th Dec 2018 15.30

KINOPOLIS: MUG + Q&A

This film screened on 8th December 2018. With films such as In The Name Of (2013) and Body/Ciało (2015) receiving international acclaim and awards from major film festivals, Małgorzata Szumowska…

Saturday 8th Dec 2018 18.00

KINOPOLIS: ANIMATION PROGRAMME

This film screened on 9th December 2018. Jarosław Konopka’s The Escape uses puppets to depict the horrors of World War II. Karina Paciorkowska’s You Are Overreacting examines the effects of…

Sunday 9th Dec 2018 12.00

KINOPOLIS: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY

This film screened on 9th December 2018. Polish science-fiction cinema suffered a great loss in August of this year with the passing of one of its foremost exponents, Piotr Szulkin,…

Sunday 9th Dec 2018 15.50

KINOPOLIS: JULIUS

This film screened on 9th December 2018. Put-upon art teacher Juliusz (Wojciech Mecwaldowski) has a serious outlook on life that finds him forever at odds with his incorrigible artist father…

Sunday 9th Dec 2018 18.00