Print8th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival
Riverside Studios, The Barbican, BFI Southbank, Tate Modern, Prince Charles Cinema, Tricycle Cinema, West London Synagogue
Now in it’s 8th year, the Kinoteka Polish Film Festiwal, returns to London with another stellar line up offering up the very best of Polish culture spanning film, music and the visual arts.
Kinoteka’s programme, 2010 highlights include:
• A showcase of contemporary fiction features as well as illuminating documentaries, innovative shorts, animations, plus onstage Q&As, including the winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Polish Film Festival, Borys Lankosz’s Reverse, Michal Rosa’s Scratch, Jacek Boruch’s All That I Love, Bartek Konopka’s Oscar shortlisted, Rabbit a la Berlin, Xawery Zulawski’s Snow White, Russian Red, Marcin Wrona’s My Flesh My Blood and Pawel Borowski’s Zero.
• Birds Eye View and KINOTEKA joint screening of Katarzyna Roslaniec’s tale of teens selling their bodies for material goods in Mall Girls
• A retrospective of Polish cinema’s most (in)famous son, actor/director Roman Polanski with early films featuring the music of jazz pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda whose music is most closely associated with Polanski’s Knife In The Water, Cul-de-sac, Rosemary’s Baby and Dance with the Vampires.
• A ‘Roman Polanski. Actor. Director’ exhibition of photographs and posters, as well as many previously unseen materials from Polanski’s private collection presented by the Lodz Museum of Cinematography’.
• Tomasz Stanko’s concert, legendary Polish Free Jazz trumpeter, and world respected musician who will perform at the Barbican, giving his personal tribute to Krzysztof Komeda’s music.
• A showcase of Anna Molska’s video art at Tate Modern, who takes the performing body as her primary medium, drawing on the history of the Eastern Europe.
More info and a full programme is on www.kinoteka.org.uk