The second weekend of Timeless Film Festival Warsaw begins
The second weekend of Timeless Film Festival Warsaw is here. Friday is the perfect moment to map out the next three days in Warsaw’s cinemas. Festival screens will light up with beloved classics, European gems and musical highlights. See you there.
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo: a concert by artists from Berlin’s electronic and experimental scene
Tonight at 8:30 pm at the Mazovian Institute of Culture, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo will take the stage. This trio of outstanding artists from Berlin’s electronic and experimental scene – Hanno Leichtmann, Magda Mayas and Valerio Tricoli – will revive the spirit of Italian giallo thrillers. Using prepared piano and reel-to-reel tape machines, they will create an immersive soundscape charged with tension and unease.
The artists pay tribute both to that cinematic tradition and to the legacy of the legendary composer-performer collective Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, closely associated with Ennio Morricone – one of its key members and the composer of dozens of giallo scores.
The last tickets for this unique event are still available.
An evening with Krzysztof Rogulski at Iluzjon cinema
We invite you to a meeting with the director of the cult classic The Big Picnic. Alongside the adventures of two runaways set to the music of Maanam, we will also present the rarely screened documentary In Search of “Tabu”. After the screening, stay with us for a conversation with Krzysztof Rogulski himself and film critic and Polish cinema enthusiast Maciej Kędziora, moderated by Patrycja Mucha, curator at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute.
Today’s key titles
Our recommendations for the start of the second festival weekend:
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, 1:00 pm, Muranów cinema – Fred Schepisi’s ambitious masterpiece is a brutal reckoning with Australia’s colonial past, following an Aboriginal man systematically humiliated by his employers.
Being There, 2:00 pm, Luna cinema – a brilliant satire starring Peter Sellers as a simple gardener who, by pure accident, becomes an oracle for the political elite.
The Hunt, 2:30 pm, Iluzjon cinema – Carlos Saura’s Berlin-awarded masterpiece, a suffocating allegory of post-war Spain, in which a routine gathering of three veterans turns into a brutal confrontation with buried traumas and resentments.
The Last Wave, 3:00 pm, Luna cinema – the mysticism of Aboriginal belief collides with the rational world of a white lawyer in Peter Weir’s tense thriller about an approaching catastrophe.
Performance, 9:30 pm, Muranów cinema – Nicolas Roeg’s dark crime film, a psychedelic tale of a gangster on the run who finds refuge in the home of an eccentric rock star.
Miles Davis: Live in Germany, 10:15 pm, Muranów cinema – pure energy and jazz genius captured on stage; essential viewing for lovers of improvisation.
The magic of analogue: 35mm screenings
Experience the physicality of cinema at today’s 35mm screenings at Iluzjon:
1:30 pm – The Hand in the Trap: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s visually stunning drama, a dense study of the Argentine bourgeoisie desperately trying to preserve the old order – and old European conventions – within a sombre mansion.
3:30 pm – The Scarlet Letter: Victor Sjöström’s adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel is a visually dazzling protest against the hypocrisy of Puritan society, concealing remarkable psychological depth beneath its period costume.
Festival essentials
Last Minute queues: remember the 30-minute rule. Last Minute queues open 30 minutes before each screening. They offer a chance for pass holders and for those who missed out during regular ticket sales.
Merch: this year’s bags, T-shirts and the last remaining caps are waiting for you at the festival cinema box offices. Perfect for moving between venues in style.
Festival flavours: with a festival pass, you can enjoy discounted food and drinks at our partner venues – make sure to add them to your festival map.
Festival clubs: we end the day with Late-Night Karaoke at Pardon, To Tu (starting at midnight). At our festival karaoke, you can bring film hits off the screen and try your hand solo, in a duet or in a bigger group, while the comic trio Agnieszka Matan, Maciek Kaczyński and Aleksandra Markowska make sure everyone is properly warmed up – not only vocally.
Organizer:
Timeless Film Foundation
Co-organizers:
Documentary and Feature Film Studios, Mazovian Institute of Culture
Co-financed by:
The Capital City of Warsaw, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Polish Film Institute
Main Partners:
ORLEN, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Gutek Film, New Horizons Association
Partners:
BMW, Kino Muranów, Kino Iluzjon, Kino Luna, Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera, National Centre for Culture, Young Horizons, Embassy of Australia in Poland, The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Czech Centre Warsaw, Lithuanian Film Centre, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Poland, Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, Slovak Institute in Warsaw, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia, Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Goethe-Institut in Warsaw, Kino Dostępne, 35mm, Mañana, Kinooceany, Bar Studio, Pardon, To Tu, Natural Rascal, Mediaboard, Wydawnictwo w Podwórku
Media Partners:
Trójka Polskie Radio, TVP Kultura, K MAG, Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy, Interia, Filmweb, Vogue, Zwierciadło, MINT Magazine, PISMO, Rzeczpospolita, SpoilerMaster
Industry media partners:
Pełna Sala, Immersja, JazzPress, Totalny Brak Kultury, Accademia Kina Włoskiego, Mocne Punkty, Anonimowy Grzybiarz, Klatki na oczach