The inaugural ceremony will take place at 13:30 at the Cinde Doré in Madrid. The festival will be opened with the film Imagine by Andrzej Jakimowski, who will be present at the show with his wife.
Films that have yet to be distributed in Spain will be presented:
Deep Love by Jan P. Matuszyński, Imagine by Andrzej Jakimowski, Jack Strong by Władysław Pasikowski, Mundial - The Highest Stakes by Michał Bielawski, Papusza by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, and Floating Skyscrapers by Tomasz Wasilewski.
We selected the films not only by subject, but also by form. We wanted to introduce Polish cinema and thereby Polish history and culture to the Spanish audience, so we tried to draw attention to the diversity of contemporary Polish cinema. The presented films have received many prestigious awards, so we hope they’ll also be received enthusiastically in Spain – says Iwona Kamińska, one of the coordinators of Cine Polaco Contemporáneo.
Cine Polaco Contemporáneo is organized by the Polish Institute in Madrid and Przestrzeń Wspólna Foundation, and is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute (PISF).
The review has been recommended by the Dias de Cine programme, the Caiman Cuadernos de Cine magazine, the Kino magazine, the SFP portal (sfp.org.pl) and the Kino Polska television channel.
For more information visit the review’s official website and its Facebook page.
The Cine Polaco Contemporáneo review has been organized in cooperation with six film archives from all over Spain: Catalonia Film Library (Barcelona), Andalusian Film Library (Sevilla, Granada, Córdoba), Galician Film Library/ Galician Centre for the Visual Arts (La Coruña), Spanish National Film Archive (Madrid), Murcia Film Office/ Institute of Film and the Audiovisual Arts, Saragossa Film Library, Valenzia Film Library and the Espacio de las Artes artistic centre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Source: press materials, ed. TK, transl. szm, November 2014