IFI & KINOPOLIS POLISH FILM FESTIVAL 2022

As with many recent events on the IFI calendar, we are delighted to welcome the return of Kinopolis after the forced hiatus of the last few years. This year’s celebration of new Polish cinema finds the industry in a state of rude health, despite the obstacles recently faced, and features some of its most distinctive voices, from Kamil Krawczycki’s sensitive debut to the idiosyncratic Agnieszka Smoczyńska, to elder statesmen Wojtek Smarzowski and Jerzy Skolimowski, both still making fierce work reflective of its time. We are proud to present this year’s programme, and to welcome back audiences to this festival honouring one of Europe’s finest national cinemas, in partnership with the Polish Embassy in Dublin and Tracey Solicitors, with thanks to the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia.

Multi-film passes available: 5 films for €50, full 4-day pass for €70. Enquire at IFI Box Office/ 01 679 5744.

KINOPOLIS: THE SILENT TWINS

The first English-language feature from eclectic director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, The Silent Twins is a biopic of Welsh twins June (Letitia Wright) and Jennifer (Tamara Lawrance) Gibbons. As members of the only black…

Thursday 8th Dec 2022 18.30

KINOPOLIS: ELEPHANT

Bartek (Jan Hrynkiewicz) is a young man living and working on a small farm in rural Poland, with family obligations to his alcoholic mother and pregnant sister. His small, quiet…

Friday 9th Dec 2022 18.30

KINOPOLIS: FUCKING BORNHOLM

With shades of Ruben Östlund filtered through a biting humour entirely its own, the new film from Anna Kazejak, whose The Word (2014) opened a previous edition of Kinopolis, sees…

Friday 9th Dec 2022 20.30

KINOPOLIS: ON THE SILVER GLOBE

As with other examples of his work (such as 1981’s Possession), Andrzej Żuławski’s sci-fi epic, surrealistic, allegorical, rich in symbolism, baffling and beguiling in equal measure, makes for a unique viewing…

Saturday 10th Dec 2022 13.00

KINOPOLIS: THE WEDDING DAY

One of the best directors in contemporary European cinema, Wojtek Smarzowski frequently and mercilessly examines the darker side of Polish society and institutions. While films such as Kler (2018) feature a strong…

Saturday 10th Dec 2022 18.10

KINOPOLIS: ESCAPE TO THE SILVER GLOBE

Andrzej Żuławski left Poland for France after the government banning of his second film, The Devil (1972). However, such was his success abroad that he was invited home and given a free hand…

Sunday 11th Dec 2022 13.30

KINOPOLIS: YOUNG EAGLES

Perhaps taking its cue from Elem Klimov’s Come And See (1985), the powerful Young Eagles depicts the changing lives of three Polish children following the invasion of their country by…

Sunday 11th Dec 2022 15.40

Taking as its inspiration Robert Bressons’s Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), the latest film from Jerzy Skolimowski, one of the titans of Polish cinema, follows the trials and tribulations of a donkey as…

Sunday 11th Dec 2022 18.00