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Play Poland 2012

Speical Screenings - New Horizons

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4 films

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Esterhazy

Short animation about a bunch of rabbits living in the Berlin Wall.

(Country: Germany, Poland; Year: 2009; Director: Izabela Plucinska; Writer: Irene Dische, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anna Jadowska, Izabela Plucinska; Stars: Jolanta Fraszynska, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bohdan Lazuka, Maria Peszek, Maciej Stuhr, Borys Szyc, Robert Wieckiewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wiktor Zborowski)

The Lost Town Of Switez

Animation based on the epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz.

(Country: Poland, Denmark, France, Canada, Switzerland; Year: 2011; Director: Kamil Polak; Writer: Kamil Polak)

Maska

An automaton disguised as a beautiful woman develops unexpected feelings whilst on a mission to assassinate a prince.

(Country: Poland, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay; Writer: Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay, based on the short story by Stanislaw Lem.)

The Work of Machines (Praca maszyn)

Poland. A nameless industrial city with a mysterious past. This is where the Work Of Machines begins: a dance choreographed in 1968, a metaphor for the relationship between man and machine.

(Country: Poland, Switzerland; Year: 2010; Director: Gilles Lepore, Maciej Madracki, Michal Madracki)