Polish your cinema

The Polish Institute of Rome opens its historic residence (via Vittoria Colonna 1) to the public, in order to celebrate the three polish films, nominated for Academy Awards 2015. Polish your cinema will be a special event promoted by CiakPolska: It will be held on the 21th february and will be free entry.

This year three film from Poland will compete for the Academy Awards in four different categories. Among these, two documentaries, La nostra maledizione e Joanna, produced respectively from the Cinema School of Varsavia and the Cinema School of Waja, which are expression of the increasing vitality of polish cinema schools.

The evening will start at 7:30 p.m with the screening of La nostra maledizione by Tomasz Sliwinski, nominee to the Best Documentary Short Film Category. The film narrates the life of the director and of his wife, which have to deal with the illness of their son, affected by the so called “Ondine’s Curse”. Facing fear and uncertainties, they try to give Leo a normal and happy childhood and they witness and share with other people their everyday life through a blog.

At 8:30 p.m will be screened Ida by Pavel Pawlikowski, already winner as Best Film at European Film Awards. Ida is nominated to The Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Photography.

Poland 1962. Anna is going to be ordained in the convent in which she have lived since she was child but in she finds out to have a living una relative, Wanda, her mother’sister. Anna will discover to be jewish and that her real name is Ida. The two women start a journey to unveil themselves and their common past.

At 10:15 p.m the third and last screening of Polish Your Cinema with Joanna (40’) by Aneta Kopacz, nominated  for Best Documentary Short Film. The protagonist is Joanna, a young woman who discovers to be gravely ill and to have only few months left. Joanna will start to write a blog for her son, a sort of spiritual testament. The film shows pieces of Joanna’s life, and that one of her husband Piotr and her little son Jas. This film is about life, love and death. As the director Andrzej Wajda pointed out “The strength of this film is the fusion of two figures: a mother and a son, consciousness and unconsciousness. The polish cinema has never had an heroine like Joanna”

During the night there will be a focus dedicated to the contemporary polish cinema, realized by the magazine “8 ½” , edited by Istituto Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with ANICA and MIBAC.

Polish Your Cinema it’s an event promoted by CiakPolska – Polish Cinema Festival in collaboration with Lux Film Days / European Parliament – Information Office Italy, Wajda Studio, Warsaw Film School, Parthenos Distribution, CGHV and Associazione Italiana per la Sindrome da Ipoventilazione

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