EXCLUSIVE: The Kinoteka Polish Film Festival has set the lineup for its 23rd edition, running from March 6 to April 26 at venues across London.
The festival will open at the BFI Southbank with a screening of Under the Volcano (Pod wulkanem) from filmmaker Damian Kocur.
The pic is Kocur’s second feature following Bread and Salt, which opened Kinoteka in 2023. Arriving at the festival following screenings at Toronto and LFF, the film follows a Ukrainian family on holiday in Tenerife who struggles to reconcile their new status as refugees following the Russian invasion.
Following past retrospectives on celebrated Polish directors such as Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Kinoteka will once again host a widescale retrospective, this year focused on the work of Wojciech Has in collaboration with BFI Southbank and the ICA.
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