August 27—October 1, 2026
Row House Cinema
4115 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201
September 1, 2026
Cinestudio
300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106
September 10 – December 17, 2026
Yale Film Archive
120 High St, New Haven, CT 06511
October 9, 2026
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743
October 9, 2026
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570
October 10, 2026
SIFF Film Center
167 Republican St, Seattle, WA 98109
November 8, 2026
Trylon Cinema
2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
This fall, experience the films of Andrzej Wajda on the big screen.
The year 2026 has been designated the Year of Andrzej Wajda. It is a special moment to return to his work, look at his films with fresh eyes, and open an intergenerational conversation about history, community, responsibility, and freedom.
This fall, audiences in the United States will have an opportunity to revisit Wajda’s films as important records of their time and as works that continue to invite reflection.
Few filmmakers devoted themselves as consistently to examining the history of modern Poland—or to revealing how political upheaval shapes the lives of ordinary people. Over the course of his extraordinary career, Wajda created a body of work that bears witness to Poland’s shifting political and social landscape while remaining deeply attentive to the individuals living through it.
Taken together, these films offer a sweeping portrait of a country reckoning with its past, confronting its present, and imagining its future. This series provides an opportunity to encounter Wajda’s work as it was meant to be experienced: in the cinema, on the big screen, and in the company of an audience.
Andrzej Wajda (born March 6, 1926, in Suwałki; died October 9, 2016, in Warsaw) was a film and theater director, screenwriter, and one of the most important figures in Polish culture of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Spanning more than six decades, his career encompassed dozens of film and theater productions, including more than 40 feature films that have become part of the canon of Polish and world cinema.
In 2000, Wajda received an Academy Honorary Award (an honorary Oscar) for his lifetime achievement. Among his many other honors were the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Man of Iron (1981), the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival (1998), and the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at the Berlinale (2006). Wajda was one of the filmmakers who shaped the movement known as the Polish Film School and, over the course of his career, helped define the direction of Polish cinema.
Wajda was also the founder, among other institutions, of Wajda School & Studio, established with filmmaker Wojciech Marczewski; the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków; and the Kyoto–Kraków Foundation.
