Anna (Jowita Budnik), a Polish ornithologist flees the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She saves Claudine (Eliane Umuhire), a Tutsi woman, from certain death and they try to make a life together in Poland. After the atrocities they both went t...
Nikifor Krynicki was a self-taught Polish painter who lived in poverty and obscurity for the majority of his life. His speech impediment led people to believe he was mentally disabled, and so he was left alone most of the time to pain...
A biographical tale chronicling the life of Poland’s most well known poetess. Bronisława Wajs (Jowita Budnik), or Papusza as she is more commonly known, was an illiterate Polish-Romani in the early 1900’s, who traded chickens in excha...
The story’s heroine has just had great success in publishing her first novel. While the rest of her peers are trying to hold down steady jobs, she’s now a certified artist and so decides to spend her time partying, travelling and indu...
A unique entry into the Sci-Fi cannon, The Man With The Magic Box falls somewhere between Memento, Blade Runner and The Time Traveller’s Wife. The story follows Adam (Piotr Polak), an amnesiac janit...
At the recently liberated areas in 1945 Poland, the Communist Security Service is eliminating its so-called enemies citing that they are traitors. An old Nazi concentration camp is turned into a labour camp for Germans, Silesians and ...
Based on the true story of a business man who was murdered in 2000 in Wrocław. His killer, Krystian Bala (Mateusz Kościukiewicz) managed to evade conviction for three years, and might have been able to continue to do so, if he hadn’t ...
A biopic about the inspirational true story of Polish athletics legend, Jerzy Górski (Jakub Gierszał). A former drug addict who went to prison a few times, he managed to pull his life back together with the support of those close to h...
Adam is a very clever and perceptive boy who can solve any riddle. He is invited by his history teacher for a vacation at his brother’s palace, where no one can explain the theft of an old door. Adam is attracted not only to the myste...
After becoming a licensed engineer abroad, Lucyna comes back to Poland to look for a job. Her father, a wealthy factory-owner, thinks it's inappropriate for a high-society girl to work. And so, following in the steps of Viola from Sha...
Prince Niko’s family want him to marry Baroness Kolmer. However both young people are against this arranged marriage as they’ve already set their sights on other lovers. To appease their families they both agree to meet. Prince Niko b...
This is the real life story of Michalina Wisłocka (Magdalena Boczarska), the most famous female sexologist in Poland, whose book The Art of Loving faced many difficulties in getting published during the communist era. Eventua...
A black and white coming-of-age story focused on the lives of three teenagers, Jake, Kyle and Jared, who live in a housing estate in London. At this point in their lives Kyle and Jared seem only to be interested in sex, porn and weed,...
In the late 60’s the residents of Zagłębie, Poland, were terrorised by a serial killer who claimed the lives of fourteen women. In 1998 Pieprzyca made a documentary about the events, and now in this film he revisits the subject to tel...
Ewa (Marta Nieradkiewicz) returns home from the hospital to her rose plantation, where her mother has been taking care of the children in her absence. Soon after Ewa’s husband also returns from a long work-trip, but the months apart h...
Two physicists who studied together in their youth, Jan and Marek, reunite at Jan’s house in the countryside. As the friends catch up Marek can’t understand why Jan is wasting his potential and implores him to move back to Warsaw. Rem...
Bestia, also known as The Polish Dancer, stands apart in this segment as it was released one year before the regaining of independence. This was a huge accomplishment considering it was hard to get anything made at t...
If you’re a fan of old-timey love stories and classic piano, then this is the screening for you. The famous pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski plays himself as a house guest to a Swedish baroness. At the house her youthful granddaughter is...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,t...
Michael (Jakub Gierszał) is a young, successful lawyer living the high-life in Berlin. Having emigrated from Poland a few years prior, he tries hard to keep his previous life in the past. One day an older, unorthodox-looking Polish ma...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,t...
Based on the true story of Irena Sendlerowa who smuggled children out of the Warsaw ghetto as part of the Polish underground movement during World War II. She faced many difficulties including persecution from the Nazis, keeping her o...
As an extra treat, three performances will be accompanied by a screening of Street of Crocodiles. This animated short, based on Schulz's writings by the same title, follows a puppet who explores the world around him with tr...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,t...
Kinoteka joins forces with KinoVino to bring you a screening of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique followed by a multi-course dinner created by Flavia Borawska, a rising star of Polish gastronomy.
As an extra treat, three performances will be accompanied by a screening of Street of Crocodiles. This animated short, based on Schulz's writings by the same title, follows a puppet who explores the world around him with tr...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,t...
Let graphic artist Andrzej Klimowski inspire you to illustrate a promotional poster or DVD cover for your next film. Klimowski, one of the fathers of the Polish Poster design movement, hosts an interactive workshop...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,t...
If you ever wondered about how posters for film and theatre have developed throughout the decades, then this is the documentary for you. Providing a look at the origins of the movement in Poland, the doc also gives some context to the...
As an extra treat, three performances will be accompanied by a screening of Street of Crocodiles. This animated short, based on Schulz's writings by the same title, follows a puppet who explores the world around him with trep...
Join us for the UK premiere from acclaimed Polish directors Teresa and Andrzej Wełmiński, based on The Comet and other stories by Bruno Schulz.
As news spreads across town that a fatal comet is hurtling towards the earth,the ...
The Yiddish story follows Getzel, a wanderer who ends up in a small village in Galicia (former Southern region of Poland) and finds a job with the shoemaker. He falls in love with the shoemaker’s daughter, Esther, but she already has ...
HISTORY VS. HYSTERIA - WHAT FICTION OWES TO THE FACTS
Kinoteka & LFA Studio present an especially curated one-off event: screenwriter/script doctor Michael Holden will be holding a lecture to discuss the possible problems tha...
The Barbican and the Polish Cultural Institute in London present the Closing Gala of the2018 Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, featuring a screening of the digitally restored 1927 film The Call of the Sea, directed by Henryk Sza...