Cinema

POLISH FILM FESTIVAL

Jasminum (NC)

Wed 5 May, 6pm, £4.50 (£3.50) *

• Poland 2006 115 mins. Dir. Jan Jakub Kolski. With Janusz Gajos, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Wiktoria Gosiewska.

This brilliantly crafted piece explores the idea of science versus faith. A small monk community leads a seemingly uneventful life until they are visited by an art restoration expert and her daughter. Strange things start to happen as questions arise – what constitutes a miracle, what is faith, what secrets does the monastery hold and what is a 1617 prophecy by Brother Barnabas?

*Buy tickets for both Jasminum & Land of Promise for £7.50 (£6.50)

Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana)

Wed 5 May, 8.15pm, £4.50 (£3.50) *

• Poland 1974 139 mins. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. With Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka.

Based on the 1897 novel by Nobel-winner W. Reymont, this is a monumental, rich epic of the sweeping changes in values and material life brought on by Poland’s late industrial revolution. Following three friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, who pool their money together to build a factory in the ruthless pursuit of fortune.

*Buy tickets for both Jasminum & Land of Promise for £7.50 (£6.50)

Time To Die (Pora Umiera´cć) (NC)

Wed 12 May, 6pm, £4.50 (£3.50)

• Poland 2007 104 mins. Dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska. With Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera, Patrycja Szewczyk, Kai Schoenhals.

Danuta Szaflarska (92 year old) stars in this gentle character study of the daily happenings of a sprightly nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. A relic of the past like her big dachastyle house, Aniela runs into conflict with a nasty neighbour, who sees her property as an eyesore and is determined to buy it up and tear it down.

The Reverse (Rewers)

Wed 12 May, 8.30pm, £4.50 (£3.50)

• Poland 2009 99 mins. Dir. Borys Lankosz. With Agata Buzek, Marcin Dorocinski’ Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony.

A darkly humorous suspense story set in 1950’s Warsaw (the peak of Stalinist oppression). 30 year old Sabina struggles to find a husband whilst living with her mother and grandmother whose matchmaking schemes prove disastrous, but they get more than they bargained for when a dapper young chap wins Sabina’s heart. Poland’s submission for the Oscars.