Film Festivals in Poland Fall/Winter 2012

A few great film festivals are just around the corner, check out the listings and go see great movies you would never be able to see in regular cinemas!

October 2012:

12 - 21.10 Warsaw International Film Festival WIFF WIFF Programme
12 - 18.10 Wroclaw German Cinema Week Programme
19 - 25.10 Wroclaw 1st Korean Film Festival Programme
20 - 26.10 TofiFest Torun TOFI Programme
24 - 30.10 Five Flavours Warsaw 5Flavours 5Flavours Programme
25 - 30.10 Warsaw Jewish Film Festival WJFF Programme
26 - 28.10 Warsaw, Poznan, Gdynia 4th Kuchnia + Food Film Fest Programme


November 2012:

13 - 18.11 American Film Festival Wroclaw AFF
19 - 22.11 10th Hungarian Film Spring in Autumn Programme (takes place in ten cities in Poland)
22 - 29.11 World Cinema Festival Warsaw Manana
23 - 25.11 Wroclaw Film Festival 3 Żywioły ("3 Elements") Programme
24.11 - 1.12 Camerimage Bydgoszcz Camerimage Bydgoszcz


What to see and where?
my tips, in Polish can be read here

Warsaw Film Festival
There are over 200 films, so it's simply impossible to see everything or even come close. Surely, all the films in competition are worth watching, including "The Domino Effect" directed by Paula van der Oest, "Nachtlaerm" by Christoph Schaub, "Despre oameni si melci" ("Of Snails and Men") by Tudor Giurgiu, "Imagine" by Andrzej Jakimowski and "Blondie" directed by Jesper Ganslandt.
Apart from those, Competitions 1-2, Free Spirit, Documentaries, Shorts, and many more.
The films I'm particularly looking forward to, are "Aftermath" directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski (Journalist Award during Gdynia Film Festival 2012), "End of Watch" by David Ayer with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, a great movie "Flowers of War" by Zhang Yimou with Christian Bale (In Competition Berlinale 2012), "Paradise: Faith" by Ulrich Seidl, "Samsara" by Ron Fricke, "The Sessions" by Ben Lewin with Helen Hunt and William H. Macy, "Keep the Lights On" by Ira Sachs, "My Brother the Devil" by Sally El Hosani, "Maori Boy Genius" directed by Pietra Brettkelly, but possibly many more. Choice is yours...