Festival

About

Timeless Film Festival Warsaw sets into motion cinema classics that in recent years have been relegated to home screenings, but have also begun to regain their former luster thanks to digital restorations. More and more viewers are not only focused on the future of cinema, seeking new revelations, but also delving into its abundant past to uncover captivating gems. Timeless films actively shape the tastes of cinephiles.

Timeless FFW offers a fresh perspective on the history of cinema that is rarely present in public debates. It achieves this by combining curatorial selections with narratives about the films and filmmakers, presented by the organizers: film scholars, critics, and cultural managers. The festival’s concept revolves around rediscovering classics in two distinct ways: showcasing digitally restored films (from copies of the highest quality) that viewers might be familiar with but haven’t seen on the big screen, and introducing new classics into the Polish cultural circuit. In the latter category viewers will find films and artists that haven’t yet been screened in Poland, but are important contributors to the global conversation about cinema.

Classics, however, are more than just masterpieces. Timeless FFW merges fire and water: it presents the canon while also questioning it, showcases esteemed films and negotiates room for emerging filmmakers, as well as establishes a connection between American and global art cinema.

The festival’s program will include retrospectives of outstanding auteurs of Polish and world cinema, documentaries about cinema, a rich representation of genre films, surprising juxtapositions of films and phenomena and sections dedicated to avant-garde and animation artists.