filmPolska running in Berlin

The largest Polish film festival outside Poland - filmPOLSKA - is taking place in various Berlin cinemas until Wednesday, 18 September.

The FFC is a guest here every year with a presentation; last Saturday, programme director Bernd Buder presented IT CAME FROM THE SEA. Xawery Zuławski's swirling eco-coming-of-age zombie dramedy about a group of high school students in a party mood who attract the attention of zombies on the Baltic coast. IT CAME FROM THE SEA screened in the FFC 2023 competition, as did Olga Chajda's IMAGO, which is set in the Gdansk underground psycho-punk scene of the late 1980s and was also presented at filmPOLSKA.

IMAGO can be seen once again at filmPOLSKA, as can numerous other current and cult gems of Polish cinema. To round off the programme, the recently deceased Jerzy Stuhr, a cult actor who has been at home on Cottbus screens since the FFC was founded, will be commemorated. Finally, the awards will be presented on 18 September.

‘filmPOLSKA is a perfect meeting place to get to know the highlights of Polish cinema, one of the most interesting cinema landscapes in Europe, in a relaxed atmosphere every year. The fact that this has always been the case is demonstrated every year by the retrospective, which this time - 60 years after the events - is dedicated to films about the Warsaw Uprising, from Andrzej Waijda's classic THE CANAL from 1956 to Jan Komasa's WARSAW UPRISING from 2014,’ says Bernd Buder, Programme Director of the FFC.

Info at: filmPolska website