FilmPOLSKA and FFC on cinematic discovery

As part of the 13th Polish Film Festival FilmPOLSKA the FilmFestival Cottbus gives a foretaste of this year's Special Silesia. In cooperation with the Polish Institute Berlin, Kino Krokodil, the Cultural Department for Upper Silesia at the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation and the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe, the FFC is showing the films DAS LOSUNGSWORT and AM ENDE DES REICHES at „Silesia, Śląsk – a cinematic discovery“ on May 2nd 2018. Bernd Buder, Programme Director of the Cottbus Film Festival, will be joined by director and FilmPOLSKA festival curator Kornel Miglus after the film AM ENDE DES REICHES.

The FilmPOLSKA film festival takes place from April 25th to May 2nd and presents both great cinema and small film pearls, box-office hits such as independent productions, animated films, avant-garde and video art. The programme also includes a number of films that have already shown the diversity of Polish cinema to the Cottbus audience: for example THE BEKSINSKIS. A SOUND AND PICTURE ALBUM on April 27th at Kino Babylon (with an introduction by Bernd Buder), on April 28th at Club der polnischen Versager and on May 1st at Filmclub K18.

Film and conversation: „Silesia, **Śląsk - a cinematic discovery“ 
**Wed, May 2nd 2018

6 p.m.: THE PASSWORD, director: Kazimierz Kutz 
8 p.m.: AM ENDE DES REICHES, director: Kornel Miglus

Kino Krokodil, Greifenhagener Str. 32, 10437 Berlin 

• *THE BEKSINSKIS. A SOUND AND PICTURE ALBUM 
  April 27th, 6 p.m. at the Babylon Cinema (Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin) 
  April 28th, 6 p.m. at Club der polnischen Versager (Ackerstraße 170) 
  May 1st, 9 p.m. at Filmclub K18 (Kreutziger Strasse 18) 

More information about FilmPOLSKA on the website: www.filmpolska.de