Polish Institute presents "Kinoteka" Polish Film Festival at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd November 2013

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : Habitat Film Club membership required, click here for more details
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Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Polish Institute presents 'Kinoteka' Polish Film Festival. 

18th November : Little Poland in India(52mins/2013 ) 
Prod.Doordarshan & Govt Of Gujarat, National Audio-Visual Institute (NInA) and TVP. 
Dir.Anu Radha & Sumit Osmand Shaw. 
A true and captivating - During World War II, about 1000 Polish children from war-torn, occupied Poland and Soviet prison camps in Stalin’s Siberia, travelled all the way to India, where Jam Sahib Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja of Nawanagar took personal risks to make arrangements at a time when the world was at war and India was struggling for its Independence. He built a camp for them in a place called Balachadi besides his summer palace, 25 km from his capital city Jamnagar, and made them feel at home. The Jam Sahib’s gesture is said to have paved the way for thousands of Polish refugees to be received in other parts of the world. The most compassionate statement made by Jam Saheb, while welcoming these young Polish children to Nawanagar was, “Do not consider yourself orphans. You are now Nawnagaris and I am Bapu, father of all the people of Nawanagar, so also yours.Collab:Polish Institute
19th November : Illumination (Iluminacja / 87mins/1972)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi. 
Zanussi's landmark film is an insightful fusion of science and art - and is as much a philosophical essay as a dazzlingly kaleidoscopic narrative feature. A cinematic mosaic of precision, intellect and emotion Illumination became a defining event for a whole generation. 
21st November : Escape From The Liberty Cinema (Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność' /92mins/1990)
Dir.Wojciech Marczewski. 
Marczewski's anti-totalitarian satire is a darkly comic examination of the nature and effects of censorship, directed by one of Poland's leading intellectual - and much censored - filmmakers. Multi-award-winning, and with shades of Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. and Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo it is a key film of the seismic political change of 1989.
22nd November : My Father's Bike (Mój rower/ 90mins/2012). 
Dir. Piotr Trzaskalski. 
Unhealed wounds, mutual accusations and intergenerational misunderstandings.  In Piotr Trzaskalski’s film, a lifetime of unresolved issues and buried secrets come to light when estranged fathers and sons are brought together in a search for the woman who binds them together. She left pork chops in the fridge and a goodbye letter on the cupboard. After many years of marriage, Barbara (Anna Nehrebecka) leaves her husband Włodek (Michał Urbaniak), stating that she has left him for another man. The 70-year-old, with 
advanced diabetes and an addiction to alcohol, has a heart attack. Włodek's  long-lost son Paweł (Artur Żmijewski), a world-famous pianist who lives in Germany, and grandson Maciek (Krzysztof Chodorowski), who lives in England with his mother, come to see him immediately. Old grudges, accusations and grievances resurface. When Włodek's condition improves, the three begin a search for Barbara,their wife - mother - grandmother.
23rd November : The Promised Land (106mins/1974) 
Dir.Andrzej Wajda. 
Adapted from Polish Nobel laureate Władysław Stanisław Reymont's classic 1897 novel, The Promised Land is the story of three young friends united in the ruthless pursuit of fortune. Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar® and presented here in its original uncut cinema version, Wajda's lavish epic is a Dickensian tale of greed, human cruelty and betrayal.

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