In addition to showcasing new Polish films, the festival will honour director Krzysztof Kieślowski with a screening of Conversations with Kieślowski by Andreas Voigt, and Agnieszka Holland with a special screening of her Charlatan, a movie inspired by a true story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek.
The film Never Gonna Snow Again, Poland’s official entry for an Academy Award earlier this year, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, will be screened on the festival’s opening night on May 26.
Other films screened at this year’s festival will include Poland’s 2020 Oscar candidate, Corpus Christi, by award-winning director Jan Komasa; Mariusz Wilczyński’s unconventional and deeply personal hand-drawn animated film Kill It and Leave This Town (2020); and Agnieszka Holland’s Soviet Union thriller Mr. Jones (2019) starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard.
Also featured will be Bartosz Kruhlik’s edge-of-your-seat thriller Supernova; the New York premiere of Sweat, directed by Magnus von Horn, the winner of the international feature film competition at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival; the first New York screening of Solid Gold by Jacek Bromski; and All for My Mother by Malgorzata Imielska.
The films will be shown in Polish with English subtitles during the 12-day celebration of Polish cinema, which begins on May 26 and runs until June 6.
The 16th New York Polish Film Festival will be presented both in a live movie theater and—for the first time in its history—virtually.
The event includes films screened at the Scandinavia House in midtown Manhattan as well as online.
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Source: nypff.com, instytutpolski.pl