This year’s edition will showcase 18 documentary, short and feature films at the legendary Anthology Film Archives. As well as presenting the newest Polish productions, the festival will also honor the recently deceased Andrzej Wajda, NY Polish Film Festival’s Honorary Patron for many years, by opening the festival with his final film Afterimage.
The festival will also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, founded Wajda himself, with screenings of its students’ short, documentary, and “first feature” projects, including films by Marcin Wrona, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Bartosz Konopka, Piotr Bernas and nominated to Oscar’s short documentary category film Joanna by Aneta Kopacz.
Among the other films screened will be The Last Family, an award winning debut by Jan P. Matuszynski, United States of Love by Tomasz Wasilewski, Kamper by Lukasz Grzegorzek, Blindness by Ryszard Bugajski, Planet Single by Mitja Okron, Strange Heaven by Dariusz Gajewski, and The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczynska, which has recently taken America by storm.
