1-5th October, Glasgow

Scotland’s first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus presents two Polish films as part of its 2024 programme, one classic and one contemporary.

3rd October, 18:00-20:10, The Balcony Movie/Film balkonowy (Pawel Lozinski, 2021)

Can anyone be a movie character? Can the world be captured in a single frame? Paweł Łoziński films passers-by from the balcony of his Warsaw flat and asks them strange, moving, and provoking questions about their lives. 

Featuring an online Q&A with director Paweł Łoziński.

Tickets: Samizdat 2024 — Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival (samizdatfest.co.uk)

4th October, 20:15-22:40, The Hourglass Sanatorium/ Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (Wojciech Has, 1973)

A sublimely surreal Alice-in-Wonderland tale by renowned Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has. A young Jewish man named Joseph visits his father in a sanatorium, only to find the place strangely abandoned. As he explores further through its labyrinthine rooms, he starts to lose all grip on time and reality.

Tickets: Samizdat 2024 — Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival (samizdatfest.co.uk)