Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2017
18 films · 4 reviews
(Country: UK, Brazil, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Wiktoria Szymanska; Writer: Wiktoria Szymanska)
World premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Andrzej Wajda; Writer: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Mularczyk; Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Aleksandra Justa, Bronislawa Zamachowska, Zofia Wichlacz, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Mariusz Bonaszewski, Szymon Bobrowski, Aleksander Fabisiak, Paulina Galazka, Irena Melcer, Tomasz Chodorowski, Filip Gurlacz, Mateusz Rusin, Mateusz Rzezniczak, Tomasz Wlosok)
Scottish premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Kasia Adamik; Writer: Richard Karpala; Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Lukasz Simlat, Zofia Wichlacz, Zbigniew Stryj, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Jan Peszek, Piotr Lukaszczyk, Karol Bernacki, Michal Meyer, Magdalena Kuta, Bogdan Koca, Michal Puchacz, Kosma Press, Jakub Wons, Pawel Tomaszewski)
International premiere
The puzzles here are of the sort intended to be enjoyed for their twists and turns rather than their resolution.
(Country: Switzerland, Austria, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Greg Zglinski; Writer: Jörg Kalt, Greg Zglinski; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski)
UK premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2007; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Robert Bolesto, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Olga Tokarczuk; Stars: Katarzyna Figura, Gabriela Muskala, Slawomir Grzymkowski, Alan Kozlowski, Olivier Kozlowski, Zdzislaw Wardejn, Izabella Klosinska, Ewelina Starejki, Sebastian Lach, Paul Ofciete)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: 15 Years of Wajda School
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Zofia Kowalewska; Writer: Zofia Kowalewska)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: Perspectives
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Katarzyna Kijek; Writer: Przemyslaw Adamski, Katarzyna Kijek; Stars: Ivo Krankowski)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: Perspectives
We don't just see this teenager grow up, we are buffeted and tossed by the experience.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Kuba Czekaj; Writer: Kuba Czekaj; Stars: Staszek Cywka, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Sebastian Lach, Bernhard Schütz, Boguslawa Jantos, Emilia Stachurska, James Fordham, Anna Podolak, Artur Kazmiruk)
Scottish premiere
(Year: 2016; Director: Piotr Domalewski)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: Perspectives
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Marta Magnuska)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: Perspectives
Statements of fact cannot quite describe the film because it is something beyond text.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Lukasz Ronduda; Writer: Robert Bolesto; Stars: Justyna Wasilewska, Jacek Poniedzialek, Magdalena Cielecka, Szymon Czacki, Rafal Domagala, Yevgeniy Glazkov, Piotr Jeziorowski, Abu Kamal, Patrick Komorowski, Piotr Lukaszczyk, Sebastian Perdek, Sylwester Piechura, Patryk Pniewski, Eduardo Rozhko, Kamil Studnicki)
UK premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2013; Director: Aneta Kopacz; Writer: Aneta Kopacz, Aneta Kopacz, Tomasz Sredniawa)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: 15 Years of Wajda School
In this deck of cards with Jokers there are wild moments, enough variety that whatever faces Karolina there is something there in black and red to conjure with.
(Country: Netherlands, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Katarzyna Roslaniec; Writer: Katarzyna Roslaniec; Stars: Tygo Gernandt, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner, Danuta Stenka, Izabela Kuna, Lukasz Simlat, Magdalena Berus, Tomasz Tyndyk, Moe Abbas, Jacek Poniedzialek, Lieke Scholman, Hanna Koczewska, John Porter)
UK premiere
(Country: Poland, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Anna Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal; Writer: Anna Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal; Stars: Rafal Mackowiak, Edet Bassey, Malgorzata Zawadzka, Pawel Binkowski, Juliusz Chrzastowski, Joanna Drozda, Patrycja Durska, Piotr Grabowski, Zbigniew Konopka, Pawel Kumiega, Szymon Kusmider, Jerzy Lapinski, Michal Majnicz, Piotr Polak)
UK premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2004; Director: Marcin Wrona; Writer: Marcin Wrona; Stars: Jordi González Castelló, Ewa Kasprzyk, Marcin Kwasny)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: 15 Years of Wajda School
(Country: Poland, Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Pawel Ziemilski; Writer: Pawel Ziemilski)
Showing in short programme: Polish Shorts: Perspectives
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Wojciech Smarzowski; Writer: Wojciech Smarzowski; Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba, Izabela Kuna, Jacek Braciak, Maria Sobocinska, Oleksandr Zbarazkyi, Volodymyr Protsiuk, Oleksandr Chesherov, Lech Dyblik, Roman Skorovskiy, Zacharjasz Muszynski, Michal Gadomski, Gabriela Muskala)
Scottish premiere
(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Pawel Lozinski; Writer: Pawel Lozinski; Stars: Ewa Szymczyk, Hanna Maciag, Bogdan de Barbaro)
Scottish premiere
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