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1.10.2024 - 5.10.2024 Events, Film

Polish screenings at the Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival, Glasgow

Catch Wojciech Has's classic The Hourglass Sanatorium and Pawel Lozinski's contemporary The Balcony Movie at this year's Samizdat festival.

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)

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