_UNDERSCORE: The Living Tradition of Polish Cinema
AVAILABLE UNTIL 6 JULY 2025
Marking the centenary of his birth, this edition looks at Wojciech Jerzy Has and the legendary Łódź Film School, which brought forward the likes of Wajda, Polański, Kieślowski, and contemporary filmmakers like Małgorzata Szumowska, Jan Komasa and Magnus von Horn. It includes a selection of black & white Polish classics such ASHES AND DIAMONDS (Popiól i diament) and FAREWELLS (Pozegnania).
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COLD WAR
ZIMNA WOJNA
Poland, United Kingdom, France
COLD WAR is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of th...
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FAREWELLS
POZEGNANIA
Poland, 1958
Feature FilmPawel, an architecture student, opposes the blue-blooded lifestyle of his family and his father’s will. He decides to have an affair with night club dancer Lidka. It would be the last good pre-war memory. Protagonists want to save their sensitivity, they dis...
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HOW TO BE LOVED
JAK BYC KOCHANA
Poland, 1962
Feature FilmFelicja, a mature woman and actress, recalls her tragic love from the occupation period during a flight to Paris. She hid a friend from the theatre at her house, they had previously played Ophelia and Hamlet on stage. During the war, there was no time f...
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IDA
Poland/Denmark
Poland, 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother’s sister Wanda.
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INNOCENT SORCERERS
NIEWINNI CZARODZIEJE
Poland, 1960
Feature FilmHe is a young sports doctor who plays jazz after hours. She is a high school student who goes to the jazz club. They meet to play a male/female game for one night. They take pseudonyms (Basil and Pelagia), which seems to be like masks hiding their ...
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THE NOOSE
PETLA
Poland, 1957
Feature FilmKuba suffers from alcoholism. From the interior design of the apartment, it can be concluded that he works with art. The empty picture frames and a modern sculpture lacking the inside correspond to its poor condition. Washed out of any feelings other than a stron...