‘My Friend, the Polish Girl’ – Dir. Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek, UK, 2018, 94 mins.
Cast. Aneta Piotrowska, Danusia Samal, Gareth Lawrence.
After a full house preview during KINOTEKA 2019, ‘My Friend, the Polish Girl’ is coming back to UK with few more screenings and Q&A’s in different cities.
Set in post-Brexit-vote London, MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL collides cinéma vérité and video bloggers to create a fresh, new film form: It watches as an experimental documentary told through the lens of one of the characters, amateur filmmaker Katie: An American rich kid following Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. Katie’s colonising, disruptive presence in Alicja’s life mirrors the treatment of migrants in the UK: Welcomed, used, then discarded. A raw, sexual, and visually brazen fiction, posing as a documentary.
Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 8.40pm
HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 6.00pm
Watershed
1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
Friday, 31 May 2019 – Wednesday 5 June 2019
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Plymouth College of Art
Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AT
Screenings of the documentary ‘Trains’ by Maciej
Stories from the East, dedicated to Ukraine
