Ciak Polonia

From 5 to 9 November will be held in Rome the second edition of the Polish Film Festival CIAKPOLSKA. 16 feature films will be featured in these five days dedicated to the Polish film production in Italy to introduce some of the most representative authors of the new generation of filmmakers in the country. The films will be screened at the Casa del Cinema and Cinema Trevi.

Opening the show Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski, which will be presented November 5 at the Casa del Cinema. Ida, award-winning film and distributed in 56 countries, is a finalist for the Lux Prize of the European Parliament and the candidate of Poland at the Oscars 2015. The success collected abroad makes Ida one of the greatest masterpieces of Polish cinema of these years. At the evening, organized in collaboration with the European Parliament – Lux Film Days, there will be the screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Women will be the great protagonists of this edition of the festival. At the Casa del Cinema, which will host the section dedicated to the New Polish Cinema, will be presented, among others, films made by filmmakers who brought to the screen strong themes: Malgorzata Szumowska with In the name of … – winner of Milano Mix Festival 2013 – deals with delicate issues such as sexuality of priests, homosexuality and the church. Anna Kazejak with The Promise, Italian premiere at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2014, offers us a reflection on love in the times of social networks. Joanna and Krzysztof Krauze with Papusza, instead, deal with the theme of the search for identity through the history of gypsy poet Papusza.

A special tribute will be dedicated to Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in his 70th anniversary with the film Stones for the Rampart by Robert Glinski, which tells the dramatic story of young people during the war. The director will be among the guests of the festival. Glinski, in addition to being an author known at home, was also the rector of the prestigious School of Cinema and TV in Lodz. Unmissable opportunity to see also the short film that reproduces the simulation of a plane on the flight Warsaw destroyed at the end of World War II.

The weekend of 8 and 9 November will be held at Cinema Trevi and will be dedicated instead to the masters of Polish cinema. After the homage of the first edition of the festival with Andrzej Zulawski, this year it is the turn of Lech Majewski, director and writer who in 2006 the MoMA in New York proposed a complete retrospective of his work. Majewski is the author of the triptyque The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Mill and the Cross and Onirica, all three distributed in Italy by Cecchi Gori Home Video (CHGV). Majewski will be present for a meeting at the Trevi Cinema Saturday, November 8th. For the occasion, will be screened his latest film Onirica (2014), a visionary love story inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.

And also The Gospel According to Harry, the 1994 film a kind of modern parable about the fragility of the couple, starring Viggo Mortensen.

In addition to the screenings, the Casa del Cinema will host a photo exhibition, Heroin(a), by Tomasz Tyndyk, dedicated to the new generation of Polish actresses  and a space in which, during the festival, will be presented short films by young directors produced by Studio Munk.

For the first time the Audience Award for Best Film will be assigned by the Roman audience. The winning film will be presented December 16 at 20 at the Cultural Centre Visual part of the Trip – fragments travel, which will offer, among others, Onirica by Majewski via streaming on the portal romefilmmarket.com.