ArtsEmerson Polish Film Festival
When:
Friday, Oct 31, 2014 7:00p -
Saturday, Nov 15, 2014 3:00p
Friday, Oct 31, 2014 7:00p -
Saturday, Nov 15, 2014 3:00p
Where:
Bright Family Screening Room at Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
Admission:
$5-10
Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Film
Event website:
https://artsemerson.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=polish_festival
ArtsEmerson presents a three-week film festival celebrating Polish arts and culture. The festival will feature selections from renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s series Masterpieces of Polish Cinema and the U.S. premiere of Andrzej Wadja’s The Possessed Years Later, a documentary recalling the creation of his seminal theatrical adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Devils. The festival will also include a special screening and discussion of In the Name Of (2013) with lead actor Andrzej Chyra (Saturday, November 1).
All films are $10 general admission, $7.50 for ArtsEmerson Members, $5 students
FREE for Emerson Student Members*
Friday, October 31, 7pm
Saturday, November 1, 4pm
Ashes and Diamonds
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej’s Wajda’s classic film Ashes and Diamonds
tells the story of a young hit-man hired to assassinate
a communist party leader in post-World War II Poland.
Saturday, November 1, 1pm
In the Name of
Directed by Malgoska Szumowska
Andrzej Chyra plays a priest in a rural Polish town
working with troubled teenagers. As he provides moral
support for his community, he struggles with his own demons and his dedication to his vows. Screening followed by Q&A with Andrzej Chyra!
Saturday, November 1, 7pm
Innocent Sorcerers
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Wajda’s Innocent Sorcerers follows two young people
who meet in a bar and seem to make a connection, but
as the evening progresses what seemed to be a
meaningless episode in their lives becomes
strikingly more complicated.
Sunday, November 2, 2pm
Saturday, November 8, 4pm
The Wedding
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Director Andrzej Wadja's hallucinatory depiction of a 19th Century wedding celebration takes a turn for the bizarre when ghosts from the past join the wild party.
FRI, NOV 07 :: SAT, NOV 08 :: SUN, NOV 09
Friday, November 7, 7pm
The Promised Land
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Three men from different backgrounds come together to take advantage of the bourgeoning textile industry by going into business together. When the money is raised and the factory is open, the men learn that riches come at the price of lost morals, ruined marriages and ongoing struggle.
Saturday, November 8, 1pm
The Illumination
Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
The Illumination blends documentary and fiction as it
follows the life a provincial man moving to a large city
to study physics and the complications of life.
Saturday, November 8, 7pm
The Constant Factor
Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
A young man who dreams of climbing the Himalayas finds himself compromising his ideals when he takes a job
at an international trade company in Zanussi’s
award-winning Cannes hit.
Sunday, November 8, 2pm
Man of Iron
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Director Andrzej Wajda takes advantage of a thaw in Soviet censorship to tell the story of an anti-communist workers’
strike in his Oscar nominated film, Man of Iron.
FRI, NOV 14 :: SAT, NOV 15 :: SUN, NOV 16
Friday, November 14, 7pm
Sunday, November 16, 2pm
The Possessed Years Later
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
In its U.S. premiere, this documentary recalls the creation of Wajda’s seminal theatrical adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Devils.
Saturday, November 15, 1pm
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Directed by Wojciech Has
Holocaust themes augment this Cannes Film Festival award-winning adaptation of Jewish author Bruno Schulz’s visionary and poetic reflection on the nature of time and death starring Jan Nowicki.
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