Film Series
Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema
Discover the best in recent Polish cinema with this program showcasing innovative, boundary-pushing new works by the country’s leading women filmmakers. Presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and co-programmed by Tomek Smolarski.
One of Poland’s most revered filmmakers, Agnieszka Holland, returns with a visually stunning new feature that’s part offbeat crime thriller, part animist fable.
Set in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, this heartrending study of grief and healing charts the profound emotional journeys of two women as they come to terms with the brutality they witnessed.
Amid the wintry steppes of Mongolia, an 11-year-old boy trains a wild stallion in preparation for a potentially life-changing horse race in this lyrical coming-of-age tale shot in gorgeous widescreen.
A heavy metal rebel receives a facial transplant—and undergoes a subsequent identity crisis—in this biting, boldly original satire of consumerism, Catholicism, and rising nationalism in contemporary Poland.
“The Little Mermaid” gets a fabulously freaky, feminist reworking in this kaleidoscopic, disco-punk horror musical about two sirens of the sea who come to land hungry for flesh.
The highest grossing Polish film of 2017 tells the true life story of Michalina Wisłocka, the crusading gynecologist who defied Communist authorities and the Catholic church to lead Poland’s sexual revolution.
During a bucolic summer in the Polish countryside, a woman’s life reaches a crisis point as she buckles—but refuses to break—under the pressures of motherhood, marriage, and an explosive secret.