From 6 to 13 September it's that time again in Berlin: for the 18th time FilmPOLSKA, the largest Polish film festival outside Poland, will take place.
We have been friends and collaborators with its founder and director Kornel Miglus for many years. We congratulate on the festival's first anniversary and are also pleased about the long-standing, fruitful collaboration with the Polish Institute in Berlin.
In addition to the competition, the rich FilmPOLSKA programme includes a retro with works by female filmmakers) who have successfully enriched Polish cinema internationally with female perspectives in recent years, including WILD ROSES and WOMAN ON THE ROOF by Anna Jadowska, a regular also in the FFC Competition, where she won no less than five prizes in 2017, including the top prize, BABY BLUES by Katarzyna Rosłaniec, which ran in the FFC competition in 2012, and two films by the exceptional director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, who was represented in the FFC short film competition with one of her first short films.
Screenings of historical films, a VR experience and other film programmes, parties and workshops round off the programme. BREAD AND SALT marks a reunion with the 2023 FFC Director's Award winner, as do the family holiday psychological thriller FUCKING BORNHOLM and the romantic tragedy SONGS OF LOVE (FFC 2022 and 2021 respectively) about a post-pubescent love story in the Warsaw music scene and Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski's unjustly largely unknown classic NACHBARN (Neighbours) from 1969. The FFC presents BREAD AND SALT at the Bundesplatz cinema on 12.9.
Info on the FilmPOLSKA programme here.