The most interesting and valuable film productions of recent years, iconic works of the Master, presentations of films inspired by the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Nanni Moretti, as well as unique meetings with the filmmakers and with Kieslowski’s famous disciples. For dessert, on the 35th anniversary of THE SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE, a meeting with Grazyna Szapołowska and Olaf Lubaszenko, who played the main characters in one of the most famous parts of THE DECALOGUE, will take place on the stage of the Health Cinematheater.This year the 12th edition of the festival will be held August 25-27.
– It is very important to me that the exchange of generational experiences is a two-way street in the case of our festival. To learn from each other constantly, regardless of age and “life course”. It seems to me that this is a thought extremely close to the life philosophy of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Kieslowski was (and still remains) certainly a master and mentor for many people, but at the same time I feel that he opened himself to people all the time and drew his strength from attentiveness, different sensitivities, different energies. That’s why I think Kieslowski would be delighted with a screening of Daniel Stopa’s KIOSK or Kuba Mikurda’s SOLARIS MON AMOUR. He would have been impressed by the different kinds of observation and use of the film medium. There is no room for a vacuum in Sokolowsk. We don’t want a vacuum. We want to demonstrate how dense and still alive this network of intellectual and emotional connections between Kieslowski’s work and contemporary Polish cinema can be. Kieslowski remains an overarching inspiration, but we are really targeting the discovery of the most interesting contemporary Polish and European films. Short and long, documentary and feature films… ,” says Diana Dabrowska, film scholar and artistic director of Hommage à Kieslowski.
At the opening of the festival, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s documentary film SIX WOMEN OF DIFFERENT AGE will be screened – dedicated not only to ballet, but also to the cycle of human life. On Saturday, an extraordinary reunion of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s disciples and a meeting of Viewers with them, including Waldemar Krzystek, Magdalena Lazarkiewicz, Zbigniew Stanek, Krzysztof Lang, Jacek Petrycki, Krzysztof Magowski and Dariusz Jablonski. Sunday is a nostalgic return to SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE, which celebrates its 35th birthday this year. After the screening, the actors playing the main roles, Grazyna Szapolowska and Olaf Lubashenko, will meet with the audience.
For fans of Polish cinema, the organizers have prepared a section: Lazarkiewicz on Screen. It will include screenings of THE LAST RING (dir. Magdalena Łazarkiewicz / 1989) and I LOVE THE CINEMA (dir. Piotr Łazarkiewicz / 1987). A true tribute to the classics will be the mention of the X Film Group, which Kieslowski always cheered for, although he was never formally a member. Janusz Zaorski, Andrzej Wolf and Ajka Tarasov will talk about breaking down doors in late communist Poland.
Very important this year will be the Italian section. It will be Pasolini-documentary filmmaker, author of the magnificent LOVE GATHERINGS (1964). Pasolini-an insightful observer of reality. Pasolini-the writer, whose CORSARIAN EXPERIENCE ON POLITICS AND LIFE 1955-1975 has finally been published so comprehensively in Poland thanks to the Glowbook publishing house. This book will be discussed in Sokolowsk with Dr. Anna Osmólska-Mętrak and esteemed writer Przemyslaw Wielgosz. The Italian section also features Nanni Moretti; the Hommage a Kieslowski will feature a preview of the Italian director’s latest work, LEPS OF TOMORROW (2023). In his latest film, Moretti pays an important tribute to Kieslowski and the SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING. Not everyone knows that Moretti was to play the male lead in THE TWO LIVES OF VERONICA, and he repeatedly says that meeting Kieslowski was one of the most important moments in his career.
The festival in Sokolowsk will also be an excellent opportunity to see some of the latest productions of the season.
All this and more awaits the participants of this year’s Hommage à Kieslowski, which will take place on the last weekend of August in Sokolowsk. More information about the festival and the entire program and screening schedule can be found at www.hommageakieslowski.pl
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FRIDAY 25.08.2023
Section: Ukraine – Generations – HEALTH CINEMA
10:00 – 11:45 “Hamlet Syndrome”, 85 min, dir. by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski (documentary, 2022)
Section: Łazarkiewicz on the screen – HEALTH CINEMA
12:00 – 14:00 “The Last Bell,” 107 min, dir. by Magdalena Łazarkiewicz (fiction, 1989)
14:00 – 14:50 Meeting with Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
Section: Generation is a Team – HEALTH CINEMA
15:00 – 16:50 “Generations”, 105 min, directed by Janusz Zaorski (feature documentary, 2016)
16:50 – 18:00 Meeting with Janusz Zaorski, Andrzej Wolf and Ajka Tarasov combined with screening of excerpts from the emerging documentary on “Team X”
19:00 Opening gala of the 12th edition of the Hommage à Kieslowski Film Festival combined with a special screening of “Seven Women of Different Ages,” directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski (documentary, 1978) – KINO ZDROWIE
Moderated by Lukasz Maciejewski
20:30 “S I E D E M.” Performance / installation by Monika Wachowicz and Jaroslaw Fret
Outdoor premiere screening of Hommage à Kieslowski 2023 – PARK
Section: Landscapes of life / landscapes of art – HEALTH CINEMA
21:00 – 23:00 “All this beauty and blood”, 121 min, dir. by Laura Poitras (documentary, 2022)
SATURDAY 26.08
10:00 – 11:30 “Home”, 95 min, dir. by Mela Hilleard (documentary, 2023)
Special screening of Hommage à Kieslowski 2023 – HEALTH CINEMA
11:30 – 12:15 Meeting with Mela Hilleard and Graham Hilliard
Section: Landscapes of life / landscapes of art – HEALTH CINEMA
12:30 – 13:30“Solaris Mon Amour,” 47 min, directed by Kuba Mikurda (documentary, 2023)
13:30 – 14:20 Meeting with Laura Pawela and DJ Lenar
14:30 – 16:00 Reunion of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s disciples (Waldemar Krzystek, Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, Zbigniew Stanek, Krzysztof Lang, Jacek Petrycki, Krzysztof Magowski and Dariusz Jabłoński). Talk combined with screening of student films – KINO ZDROWIE
Special event Hommage à Kieslowski 2023
Section: Lazarkiewicz on screen – HEALTH CINEMA
16:15 – 17:40 “I Love Cinema,” 77 min, directed by Piotr Łazarkiewicz (feature, 1987)
17:40 – 18:15 Meeting with Magdalena Łazarkiewicz and Lech Moliński (Lower Silesia Film Walks)
Section: The Great Little Man – HEALTH CINEMA
18:30 – 19:20 “Kiosk,” 40 min, directed by Daniel Stopa (documentary, 2023)
19:20 – 20:00 Meeting with Daniel Stopa
Section: the great little man – HEALTH CINEMA
20:15 – 20:45 “My old”, 24 min, dir. by Natasha Parzymies (feature, 2023)
20:45 – 21:20 Meeting with Dorota Stalińska
Section: Landscapes of life / landscapes of art – HEALTH CINEMA
21:30 – 23:00 “Sisterhood of the Holy Sauna”, 89 min, by Anna Hints (documentary, 2023)
Section: Ukraine – Generations – PLENARY SHOW
21:30 – 23:30 “Pamfir”, 103 min, dir. by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (feature, 2022)
SUNDAY 27.08
Section: Italian dialogues – HEALTH CINEMA
10:00 – 11:30 “Love Congregations,” 90 min, dir. by Pier Paolo Pasolini (documentary, 1964)
11:30 – 12:30 Discussion around the publication “Corsair Interviews on Politics and Life. 1955-1975″ (Pier Paolo Pasolini), GlowBook Publishing 2023 (Przemyslaw Wielgosz, Anna Osmólska-Mętrak, Diana Dabrowska) – Tent in front of the cinema
Section: Great little man – HEALTH CINEMA
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. “Tonia”, 79 min, directed by Marcin Bortkiewicz (feature, 2022)
13:00 – 13:45 Meeting with Marcin Bortkiewicz, Adam Bobik and Marianna AME
14:00 – 15:30 “A Short Film About Love”, 83 min, dir. by Krzysztof Kieslowski (feature, 1988)
Special screening of Hommage à Kieslowski 2023 – HEALTH CINEMA
15:30 – 17:00 Meeting with Grazyna Szapołowska and Olaf Lubaszenko – KINO ZDROWIE
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Recital by Grazyna Szapolowska “Every Love is a Journey” with guitar accompaniment by Robert Horn.
17:30 – 19:30
Screening of the film “Lodz Kaliska. Classics of the Absurd (2023)”, 90 min., directed by Slawomir Grünberg
Venue: Museum under construction / Laboratorium Kultury / Różana 2
Before the film a short conversation with artist Bożenna Biskupska about the phenomenon of Lodz Kaliska
Section: Italian Dialogues – HEALTH CINEMA
20:00- 22:00 “A Better Tomorrow”, 95 min, directed by Nanni Moretti (feature, 2023)
HAK 2023 pre-premiere screening
22:15-24:00 Screening of the film “Lodz Kaliska. Classics of the absurd (2023)”, 90 min, dir. Slawomir Grünberg
Health Cinema
TICKETS
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PRICE LIST
Normal 3-day pass from 320 PLN
Discounted 3-day pass from 270 PLN
1-day pass/Friday – reduced from 130 PLN
1-day pass/Friday – normal from 160 PLN
1-day pass/Saturday – normal from 120 zł
1-day pass/Saturday – reduced from 90 zł
1-day pass/Sunday – normal from 130 zł
1-day pass/Sunday – concessions from 110 zł
Tickets for individual events priced from PLN 10 to PLN 50
Tickets will also be available for purchase at the box office before the screening, but advance purchase online is a guarantee of a seat in the theater.
Discounted tickets are available for pupils, students, retirees and pensioners. Collection of discounted tickets only on the basis of a valid ID card. One ticket can be purchased per ID.
