POLISH FILM FESTIVAL

This annual event is organized by the UW-Madison Polish Student Association in collaboration with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Comittee.

The Polish Heritage Club is proud to sponsor this event that became an established tradition of celebrating and promoting recent and the most accomplished Polish movies.

Shows are free to the public.

Seating is limited and provided on a "first come, first served" basis.

Films are screened in the original language with English subtitles.

November 19 at 1 pm

MARIA CURIE
(2016, dir. Marie Noelle, 100 minutes)

The movie follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.

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November 19 at 3:30 pm

ART OF LOVING
(Sztuka kochania)
(2017, dir. Maria Sadowska, 122 minutes)

Michalina Wisłocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

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November 19 at 1 pm

STARS
(Gwiazdy)
(2017, dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński, 120 minutes)

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banaś, acclaimed Silesian football player of the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to make his dreams come true on and off the field. Stars is the story of a great love between young people torn by passion and ambition.

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November 19 at 3:30 pm

LULLABY KILLERY
(Ach Śpij Kochanie)
(2017, dir. Krzysztof Lang, 100 minutes)

The script is based on a true story set in the 1950s, when the serial killer Władysław Mazurkiewicz, suspected of 30 murders, terrorized Kraków. This handsome, elegant playboy-murderer went unpunished for a very long time until he met his match in the young militia detective.

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