Instytut Polski w Londynie

Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2026

Full line-up of films and events announced! Taking place in London and select cities across the UK from 4 February to 29 March 2026.

04 02.2026 29 03.2026 Events, Film, History, News

Public Book Launch & Lecture – The Nomadic Shtetl Archive: Mobile Interventions in Post-Jewish Architecture with Natalia Romik

An evening of lecture, discussion, and celebration marking the launch of Architecture of Memory (UCL Press, 2025)

12 02.2026 Events, History, Literature

Exhibition Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust Launches UK Tour in 2026

In January 2026, the powerful international exhibition Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust will embark on a nationwide tour across the United Kingdom.

06 01.2026 27 01.2026 Events, History, Visual arts

Free Discussion: Remembering the Warsaw Uprising organised by Kings College London and the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust

Join historians and academics to mark the closure of the Warsaw Calling Exhibition, which tells the story of this heroic and tragic event.

02 12.2025 Events, History

DRESS TO IMPRESS. Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia

A unique transdisciplinary project which will showcase a live presentation of re-created costumes based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum

09 12.2025 Events, History, Visual arts

Remembering Katyń Victims – Honouring Memory, Fostering Dialogue

A series of two events on the 15th & 22nd November, a discussion, film screen and guided walk, to honour the memory of the the Katyń atrocities, 85 years on, and foster dialogue around this signficant event in Polish history.

15 11.2025 22 11.2025 Events, History

Exhibition – Come with us! – Democratic Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989

An exhibition about the story of the struggles and triumphs of Central and Eastern European nations as they regained their freedoms and democratic rights in the wake of the 1989 revolutions.

02 11.2025 08 12.2025 Events, History, Visual arts

Westerplatte – WWII’s Forgotten First Battle – Video by historian Dr Mark Felton

Learn more about what happened on 1 September 1939 when World War II erupted in the city state of Danzig. The first shots were fired by a WWI German battleship. What followed, called the Battle of Westerplatte, is a heroic story of Polish resistance to the German invaders.

05 10.2025 Events, History

Hevelius in Oxford 29-30 October

A display, lecture, concert and activity day celebrating Johannes Hevelius, one of the great scientists of the 17th century, the pioneering astronomer and brewer from Gdansk in Poland, who drew the first detailed map of the moon. Supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.

29 10.2025 30 10.2025 Events, History, News