13/01/2005

The New Wave of Polish cinema is currently the focus point at the Polish Film Institute in Paris with ten films screening between January 10th-30th. Three first feature films from this retrospective will also be shown at the upcoming Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers (28-30 January) which will end the showcase of contemporary Polish cinema, part of the Nova Polska or Polish season in France. The first part of the Season started last October at the MK2 Parnasse Cinema in Paris, organized in partnership with public broadcaster Telewizja Polska S.A. (TVP) which produced or co-produced many films offered to the French public thanks to the “Generation 2000” project.
BR> The selection of Polish films includes a wide range of styles and genres: first films that smashed at the Polish box office such as Andrzej Jakimowski’s Zmruz oczy (-Eyes half-closed, 2002) or Dariusz Gajewski’s Warszawa (-Warsaw, 2003); realistic comedy with Jerzy Stuhr’s Pogoda na jutro (Time for Tomorrow-2003) to social drama with Robert Glinski’s Czesc Tereska (Hello Tereska-2001). There is also a special focus on the true members of ‘Generation 2000’ who started their film career with the TVP like Lukasz Barczykwith his film Przemiany (Changes-2003) Malgorzata Szumowska with Ono (Him-2004) or Marek Lechki’s Moje Miasto (My town-2002). But other key names are also part of the program: Lech Majewski with Angelus (2001) Piotr Trzaskalski’sEdi (2001), Mariusz Trelinski’s Egoisci (Egoists-2000) and Przemyslaw Wojcieszek’s (Stronger Than Bombs -2001)

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