BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID://WordPress//Event-Post-V5.9.2//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Warsaw
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
DTSTART:19700329T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:19701025T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Andrzej Wajda 2026
UID:https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/2026/08/11/andrzej-wajda-2026/
LOCATION:
DTSTAMP:20260829
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260829
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20271108
DESCRIPTION:August 27—October 1, 2026Row House Cinema4115 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA
15201
September 1, 2026Cinestudio300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106
September 10 – December 17, 2026Yale Film Archive120 High St, New Haven,
CT 06511
October 9, 2026Cinema Arts Centre423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743
October 9, 2026Jacob Burns Film Center364 Manville Rd, Pleasantville, NY
10570
October 10, 2026SIFF Film Center167 Republican St, Seattle, WA 98109
November 8, 2026Trylon Cinema2820 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.
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR