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22.05.2019 Events, Film

My Friend the Polish Girl- UK screenings 🗺

in Manchester, Bristol and Plymouth

‘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

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Thursday, 30 May 2019, 6.00pm

Watershed

1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX

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 Friday, 31 May 2019 – Wednesday 5 June 2019

Plymouth Arts Cinema

Plymouth College of Art

Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AT

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