EXCLUSIVE: Agnieszka Holland’s migrant drama Green Border will open the twenty second Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, working from March 6 to twenty-eight in numerous areas throughout London.
The opening gala screening on the BFI Southbank will tie in with the movie’s UK launch by Modern Films, which kicks off on March 8. The image beforehand made its UK premiere on the BFI London Film Festival.
The well timed drama explores the migrant disaster on the Polish-Belarusian border from a wide range of factors of view, from the folks caught within the treacherous pure surroundings, to activists attempting to assist them and border guards charged with preserving them out.
The work hit the headlines earlier this yr when Holland was attacked by Poland’s far-right authorities because the movie world premiered to acclaim on the Venice Film Festival in September, the place it received the Special Jury Prize.
Polish distributor Kino Świat pushed on with the Polish launch despite the nasty political backlash, with Holland doing the promotional tour accompanied by non-public safety guards.
The long-running Kinoteka competition is organized by the Polish Cultural Institute with the assist of the Polish Film Institute.
The competition will shut on the BFI IMAX on 28 March with a screening of Polish field workplace animated function hit The Peasants, accompanied by stay music from composer Łukasz Rostkowski aka L.U.C.
It is the most recent bold manufacturing movie from the husband-and-wife workforce DK and Hugh Welchman, who broke out internationally with the 2019 function animation Oscar nominee Loving Vincent.
The works is customized from Nobel Prize-winning author Władysław Reymont’s basic turn-of-the-century novel of the identical identify and makes use of the identical hand-painted approach as its predecessor however on a grander scale.
The drama revolves a free-spirited younger lady, Jagna, decided to forge her personal path in a late nineteenth century Polish village. She is knocked off target when she is married off to a rich widower, whereas being in love together with his son.
The image has loved a profitable cinema run at residence with over 1.7 million admissions.
Further highlights of this system embrace Małgorzata Szumowskaand Michał Englert’s Woman Of which is able to play in New Polish Cinema strand.
Set in opposition to the panorama of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism,the movie follows the 45-year journey of Aniela Wesoły (Małgorzata Hajewska) to seek out private liberty as a trans lady.
The movie initially world premiered in Competition in Venice.
The full line-up of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival can be introduced on February 7.