Meet the filmmakers and join the discussions

Monday, April 7, 2025

11:00 AM, Muranów cinema – Zbyszek Screen
Progress, dir. Janusz Zaorski

After-screening Q&A with the director. Host: Błażej Hrapkowicz, film critic, TV and radio journalist.

8:30 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
The Graduate, dir. Mike Nichols

The screening will be preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec, journalist, essayist, and former U.S. correspondent. His latest book Na bulwarach czyhają potwory. Filmowa historia Ameryki (Agora, 2025) inspired the festival section Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. New Hollywood 1967–1980, which he also curated.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

11:00 AM, Muranów cinema – Zbyszek Screen
Jovita, dir. Janusz Morgenstern

After-screening Q&A with Daniel Olbrychski. Host: Błażej Hrapkowicz

8:00 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
Midnight Cowboy, dir. John Schlesinger

Preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec.

8:30 PM, Muranów cinema – Zbyszek Screen
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, dir. The Quay Brothers

After-screening Q&A with the directors. Host: Adriana Prodeus, film critic, author of The Themersons, and film program curator (including for Anthology Film Archives in New York), and curator of the section The Quay Brothers: In the Labyrinth of Imagination.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

8:30 PM, Luna cinema – Screen B
The Most Important Thing: Love, dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Presented in partnership with the Pełna Sala Film Discussion Club. After-screening discussion hosted by Paweł Teszner, film scholar and critic.

8:30 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
The Last Picture Show, dir. Peter Bogdanovich

Preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec.

8:30 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, dir. Quay Brothers

After-screening Q&A with the directors. Host: Adriana Prodeus, film critic, author of The Themersons, and film program curator (including for Anthology Film Archives in New York), and curator of the section The Quay Brothers: In the Labyrinth of Imagination.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

11:00 AM, Muranów cinema – Zbyszek Screen
The Deluge: Redivivus, dir. Jerzy Hoffman

After-screening Q&A with Daniel Olbrychski and film editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski. Host: Błażej Hrapkowicz

5:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Custody, dir. Wiesław Saniewski

After-screening Q&A with the director and author of Wolny strzelec pod nadzorem. Host: Emil Sowiński, PhD in the humanities, author of Niezależni producenci. Studio Filmowe im. Karola Irzykowskiego w latach 1981 – 2005 (University of Łódź Press, 2025). Supervision was produced at the Irzykowski Studio.

8:15 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
The Conversation, dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec.

Friday, April 11, 2025

5:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Animated Films by Daniel Szczechura: First Set: Hobby, dir. Daniel Szczechura

After-screening Q&A with the director. Host: Jerzy Armata, film and music critic, author of several books on cinema, promoter of animated film.

8:00 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
Dog Day Afternoon, dir. Sidney Lumet

Preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

3:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Progress, dir. Janusz Zaorski

After-screening Q&A with the director. Host: Michał Oleszczyk, film critic, scholar, translator, screenwriter, and script consultant. Host of SpoilerMaster – Podcast do słuchania po seansie, and curator of the SpoilerMaster Presents section.

5:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Stolica Screen
The Fall of Italy, dir. Lordan Zafranović

After-screening discussion on foreign films featuring the directors Lordan Zafranović and Robert Wichrowski, author of the 2025 documentary Mr. Olbrychski. Host: Maša Guštin, university lecturer specializing in Balkan cinema and culture.

7:30 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen
Raging Bull, dir. Martin Scorsese

Preceded by a 15-minute TEDx-style talk by Maciej Jarkowiec.

Sunday, April 13, 2025

2:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Lines from the Heart, dir. Christina Olofsson
Meeting with Mai, dir. Jannike Åhlund, Solveig Nordlund

After-screening Q&A with Louis Lemkow Zetterling, son of director and actress Mai Zetterling, sociologist, and academic. Host: Klara Cykorz, cultural studies scholar, film critic, and winner of the Krzysztof Mętrak Award.

5:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Stolica Screen
Evening Bells, dir. Lordan Zafranović

After-screening Q&A with the director and Patrycjusz Pająk, academic and author of Arcydzieła chorwackiego filmu fabularnego (University of Warsaw, 2018). Host: Maša Guštin, university lecturer specializing in Balkan cinema and culture.

5:15 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Anima. Masters of Polish Animation

After-screening Q&A with Jerzy Armata, author of Anima. Masters of Polish Animation (EGoFILM, 2025).

Around 7:00 PM, Muranów cinema – Gerard Screen (after the second part of Shoah)

Memory as Medium. Art as Testimony. A Discussion on Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah. Moderator: Jakub Duszyński, Artistic Director at Gutek Film, and director of a short documentary on memory to be presented at POLIN Museum in June 2025.

Panelists:

Patrycja Dołowy – writer, artist, social activist, and author of Wrócę gdy będziesz spała. Rozmowy z dziećmi Holokaustu.

Aleksandra Janus – anthropologist and cultural projects curator, vice-president of the Foundation Zapomniane.

Mikołaj Grynberg – writer and photographer, author of Oskarżam Auschwitz czy Jezus umarł w Polsce, and director of Proof of Identity (2021), featured at POLIN Museum.

Monday, April 14, 2025

5:15 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
Animated Films by Daniel Szczechura: Second Set, dir. Daniel Szczechura

After-screening Q&A with the director. Host: Jerzy Armata, film and music critic, author of several books on cinema, promoter of animated film.

8:00 PM, Iluzjon cinema – Mała Czarna Screen
The Life and Deaths of Max Linder, dir. Edward Porembny

After-screening Q&A with the director. Host: Robert Siwczyk, blogger, founder of Klatki na oczach, and researcher of silent and slapstick cinema.