6 th, 2022
Polish Film Festival 2022 – Sunday Program
6:00 PM
Overnight Paradise – short film, 14 min
director: Michał Szpak, Houston’s actress: Julia Buszac
6:15 PM
Young Eagles, (Orlęta, Grodno 1939) 2022, drama, 104 min
Director: Krzysztof Lukaszewicz
Grodno, an Eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bombard the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leos, Ewelina and Tadek. Their world of innocent and care-free childhood, playing and first loves ends literally and figuratively. Leos is 12. He is a Jewish boy fascinated with the Polish independence movement tradition. On September 17, 1939, according to the Soviet and German pact, the Red Army invades Poland and plans to capture Grodno. The city begins a hopeless fight against the occupants…
8:00 PM
Nothing Than (“Zupa nic”) 2021, comedy, drama, 94 min
Director: Kinga Debska
Marta is a romantic and a school victim of fate. He shares a room with his sister Kasia and grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, my parents – Tadek and Elzbieta – live their married life. He is a constantly humiliated intelligent by the system who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law…