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2008
WEDDING - by Wojciech Smarzowski
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT - BFI Southbank special release
POLISH BEAUTIES Film Season - Negri, Tyszkiewicz, Szapolowska, Cielecka, Bachleda-Curus
AN EVENING FOR THE THEMERSONS - part of Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 – 1937
EDWARD KLOSINSKI - 1943 - 2008
JERZY KAWALEROWICZ - 1922 - 2008
KOCHA, LUBI I ZARTUJE - *book signing cancelled*
POLISH FILM SEASON at The Prince Charles Cinema - Celebrating the best of contemporary Polish Films
PETER & THE WOLF wins the Oscar - at the 80th Academy Awards
PETER & THE WOLF wins the Oscar - at the 80th Academy Awards
MIDNIGHT TALKS - Win tickets & more inside!
BAR AT VICTORIA STATION - part of Pocketvisions screenings
FLAMES OF MAHASIDDHA - Dominik Koscielak
KINOTEKA 6th Polish Film Festiwal - in partnership with Wyborowa
EXTRAS - at the Borderline Film Festival
CENSORSHIP AS A CREATIVE FORCE - Literary Panel at UCL
1,2,3… AVANT-GARDES: FILM/ART BETWEEN EXPERIMENT AND ARCHIVE -
POLAND IN 1968 - March Almonds, Kredens, Gdanski Train Station + Panel Discussion
POLE POSITIONS - Four week course in Polish Cinema
POLISH FILM FESTIVAL in BELFAST - part of The Polish Cultural Week
TIME TO DIE, WARSAW DARK and KREDENS - at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI RETROSPECTIVE - at Riverside Studios
KATYN - at COMMON LANGUAGE: A Celebration of European Cinema
POLISH FILMS @ SHOWCASE CINEMAS - in Paisley, Newham and Peterborough
CONTEMPORARY POLISH CINEMA - Midnight Talks, My Nikifor, Hope, Extras

2007
Ode to Joy - Screened at the Elefest
TWOCKERS - by Pawel Pawlikowski and Ian Duncan
THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT - by Andrzej Zulawski
CONRAD ON SCREEN - Film Season
THE FIRST DAY - at the Voyage Documentary Festival
MY NIKIFOR - by Krzysztof Krauze
POLAND ST. UNDERGROUND - FREE 3D Animation / Games / Art / Live Music / Books / Art / Fashion
DEAD CLASS - Tadeusz Kantor's play filmed by Andrzej Wajda
TADEUSZ KONWICKI Evening at British Library - and book launch of THE FICTION OF TADEUSZ KONWICKI
SAVIOR'S SQUARE - at London Film Festival
POLISH FILMS - at the Cork Film Festival
THE AIB POLISH FILM FESTIVAL - presented by IRISH FILM INSTITUTE
BATH FILM FESTIVAL - showcase of Polish Films
UBU ET LA GRANDE GIDOUILLE by Jan Lenica - at the Jarry Centenary Evening
EXTRAS - by Michal Kwiecinski
POLISH DOCUMENTARIES - at Sheffield International Documentary Festival
HYENA and TELL ME WHY? - at the Leeds International Film Festival
JACQUOT DE NANTES - music by Joanna Bruzdowicz
POLISH FILM ENCOUNTERS - at University of Lincoln
SONS by VOLKER KOEPP - at Delicatessen - Goethe-Institut Digital Cinema
HOPE BY STANISLAW MUCHA - at Closing Gala of Northern Light Film Festival
SAVIOUR'S SQUARE - at Kinescope Polish Film Club
THREE COLORS: BLUE, WHITE & RED - The whole trilogy for the price of one ticket!
Peter and the Wolf
Polish Paths to Freedom
We Are All Christs
So It Doesn't Hurt
Masters of Polish Animation
Ashes and Diamonds
Copying Beethoven
Chinatown at Cine Lumiere, London
Chaos by Xawery Zulawski, Late night Kino Polska screening
The Portraitist having sold out at the Polish Film Festival here is another opportunity to see The Portraitist
Polish Film Posters exhibiton at the Belfast Film Festival
The Seeds and The Brand New World at the London International Documentary Festival
Polish Films at the New Europe Film Festival, Fimhouse Cinema, Edinburgh
5th Polish Film Festival, London
The Collector at the Borderlines Film Festival
I Am by Dorota Kedzierzawska at the Birds Eye View Film Festival, London
Europa, Europa by Agnieszka Holland at the Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh
Go To Luiza by Grzegorz Pacek at the Art Zone in Enfield
Ashes and Diamonds by A.Wajda with guest speaker Monika Braid, Brighton
Short Films from the Film School at Lodz, National Film Theatre, London
Passenger by Andrzej Munk, The Imperial War Museum, London
Interrogation by Ryszard Bugajski, Second Run DVD Screening, The Fleapit, London
Gombrowicz on Screen, University College, London
Obcy Aktorzy/Foreign Actors by Matthew Tod, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Ode to Joy by A. Kazejak-Dawid, J. Komasa,M. Migas - Rio Cinema, London
Andrzej Munk Retrospective, Riverside Studios, London

2006
Korczak - Andrzej Wajda's film at Spiro Ark, London
The Polish Film Festival at the Irish Film Insitute in Doublin
Directors Masterclass with Katarzyna Deszcz, Scarlet Theatre, Barnet
Polish Films at Leeds International Film Festival
Polish Films at the Cinecity Brighton Film Festival
Polish Films at the Northern Lights Film Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ode to Joy
at London Film Festival
Dazzle Walerian Borowczyk at the Norwich International Animation Festival
Polish Films at the Document 4 Film Festival, Glasgow
Stanislaw Mucha at the Reality Check Festival
Barrier by Jerzy Skolimowski, NFT, London
Repulsion by Roman Polanski, Cinema Lumiere, London
Two Eastern Landscapes by Volker Koop, Goethe Institute, London
Palimpset by Konrad Niewolski at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
So I Am + Ichthys at the International Animation Festival, London
4th Polish Film Festival London
Devils. Devils by Dorota Kedzierzawska at the London International Gypsy Film Festival
Kieslowski Revisited - National Film Theatre, London
BAFTA award for Tomek Baginski and Piotr Sikora for Fallen Art
Sarid - a documentary screening at the Polish Cultural Institute
Betrayal: The Battle for Warsaw a film, History Channel, UK

2005
Holocaust And The Moving Image - film screenings and the book launch at the Imperial War Museum London
Tomasz Partyka and Piotr Bosacki at the 11th Bristol International Film Festival
Jerzy Kucia and Daniel Szczechura at the Norwich International Animation Folm Festival, Norwich Playhouse, Norwich
Across The Borders Six Views From Neighbours - a documentary film festival (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland) at the Riverside Studios, London
Archive of Polish Experimental Film - a workshop of the iilm form at the Hull International Short Film Festival, Hull Screen, Hull
From The Auschwitz Chronicle - a documentary film screening and talk at the Polish Cultural Centre
The Other Truth - a documentary film premiere at the Player's Theatre, London
3rd Polish Film Festival at the Riverside Studios, Curzon Soho and Curzon Mayfair and the
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Pawel Pawlikowski Season at the Riverside Studios, London

2004
Jan Jakub Kolski - a tribute at the Riverside Studios, London
The Warsaw Uprising in Films at the Imperial War Museum cinema, London
IN EUROPE - documentary films from Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia at the Riverside Studios, London
Polish Film Comedies Weekend celebrating Poland's entry to the EU, at the Everyman Cinema, London
2nd Polish Film Festival – at the Riverside Studios, the Other Cinema and Curzon Soho, London

2003
Polish Films at the New Europe Film Season in London, Brighton, Liverpool, Edinburgh
Polish Films at the 11th Raindance Film Festival
at the UGC, Shaftsbury Avenue, London
Polish documentaries, animation and short films at the Hull International Festival
Krzysztof Kieslowski Retrospective
at the Riverside Studios, London
Eden
by Andrzej Czeczot at the Cambridge Film Festival 2003
RELEASED!
a season of films produced after 1989 in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary at the Riverside Studios, London
Wojaczek
a film about the Polish cult poet at the Barbican Centre, London
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - a short season of documentaries at the Imperial War Museum, London
1st Polish Film Festival at the Riverside Studios, London

2002
Polish Films at the 10th Raindance Film Festival at the Metro Cinema, London
Polish Films during the 'New Europe' film season at the Barbican Centre, London
Jerzy Kucia - screenings of his films as part of the British Animation Awards at the NFT, London
BANNED... Films They Didn't Want You To See a season of banned films from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia at the Riverside Studios, London

2001
Polish Women Directors at the Riverside Studios, London
Polish Cinema and the Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum, London (part of the History in Focus season)
Walerian Borowczyk Retrospective at the Lux cinema, London
Rozewicz Festival - films Leaves and Door In The Wall at the Riverside Studios, London
Jerzy Hoffman's films at the Institute francais, London
Dariusz Jablonski - Photographer at the Lux cinema, London
A tribute to Wojciech Has - Polish Literature in films at the Institute francais, London

2000

A tribute to Jan Karski screening of the documentary Messenger From Poland
A Festival of Andrzej Wajda's films "Wajda 2000" at the Institute francais, London
A Festival of Roman Polanski's films - at the Institute francais, London
A Festival of Jerzy Skolimowski's films - at the Institute francais, London