Titled CIAK Polska, the event takes its name from the Italian word for the sound made by a film clapperboard—also used to mean "action."
The 10-day review opened with a screening of Agnieszka Holland’s 1977 film Screen Tests.
Nine of Holland’s films are featured in the programme, including A Lonely Woman, Fever, Provincial Actors, In Darkness, Olivier, Olivier and Mr. Jones.
Wednesday’s lineup includes Spoor, co-directed by Holland and her daughter Kasia Adamik, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Holland, moderated by Italian film critic Enrico Magrelli.
CIAK Polska highlights also include a tribute to the late director Wojciech Jerzy Has, marking the centenary of his birth in 2025.
A newly restored version of his acclaimed The Saragossa Manuscript will be screened at Casa del Cinema in Rome’s Villa Borghese on November 28, while his classic How to Be Loved will air on Italy's RAI3 television network on November 15 and 22.
New Polish cinema is also represented, with screenings of The Girl with the Needle by Magnus von Horn and Scarborn by Paweł Maślona, along with two documentaries about prominent Polish women: Abakamania, about sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Wanda Rutkiewicz: The Last Expedition, about the famed climber who died in the Himalayas in 1992.
CIAK Polska is an annual event now in its 13th year.
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