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Thanks to the involvement of our partner, the film part of the programme will become an integral part of the festival.\nAgnieszka Smoczy\u0144ska, the film director, will be the special guest of this year's event who made her debut in 2015 with the film \"The Lure\" \u2013 a genre-crossing, horror and music mashup, which won awards all over the world, m.in. at the Sundance Film Festival. The song \"The Lure\" was included in the prestigious Criterion Collection and was released in cinemas in the USA by Janus Films\nHer second feature film, \"Fugue\", premiered in Cannes as part of the prestigious Critics' Week section. In 2022, Smoczy\u0144ska made her debut in English-language cinema with the film \"The Silent Twins\", starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. The film was recognized in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. The director participated in the European Cinema: Ten Women Filmmakers to Watch program and is the winner of the Global Filmmaking Award, awarded by the Sundance Institute.\nIn 2022, she was among the five directors whose work was presented at the Cannes FilmFestival. He is currently working on a new feature project HOT SPOT and on the production of Verdi's opera \"Simon Boccanegra\" at the National Opera in Warsaw, which is scheduled for premiere on February 14, 2025.\nSave the dates: February 28-March 2, 2025 (exact locations listed below)\nAll events are FREE - an opportunity not to be missed!\nSave the date: February 28, 2025 @ King's College (University of Aberdeen), room KCF7.  University of Aberdeen King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX\n\"The Silent Twins\" and Q&amp;A session with our special guest, the film director Agnieszka Smoczy\u0144ska, Friday, February 28, at 18:00\nEvent in collaboration with University of Aberdeen \u2013 Elphinstone Institute, Film &amp; Visual Culture oraz George Washington Wilson Centre.\nSave the date: March 1, 2025 @ Newton Dee Phoenix Theatre, \u00a0Newton Dee Village, Bieldside Aberdeen, AB15 9DX.\n\"Fugue\", Saturday, March 1, at 19:30\nSave the date: March 2, 2025 @ Newton Dee Phoenix Theatre\n\"The Lure\", Sunday, March 2, at 18:00\nFor more information visit Facebook: \nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/polscotfest;\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PolishAssociationAberdeen,\nwww.polscotfest.co.uk"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/2025\/02\/17\/weekend-of-polish-cinema-with-international-film-festival-tofifest-film-festival\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/Weekend-of-Polish-Cinema-Agnieszka-Smoczynska-plakat-e1740495667955.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/Weekend-of-Polish-Cinema-Agnieszka-Smoczynska-plakat-e1740495667955.jpg","width":400,"height":565},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/2025\/02\/17\/weekend-of-polish-cinema-with-international-film-festival-tofifest-film-festival\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Weekend of Polish Cinema with Tofifest International Film Festival"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Londynie","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/#\/schema\/person\/650660f82290e905505348ef8ca79a33","name":"konopkab","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb1006bc5b4ae26fa605cdf675d5e97c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb1006bc5b4ae26fa605cdf675d5e97c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"konopkab"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/author\/konopkab\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}