{"id":18980,"date":"2025-10-28T20:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=18980"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:35:56","slug":"trains-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/10\/28\/trains-at\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAINS at Tribeca Screening Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM<br>Tribeca Screening Room<\/strong><br>375 Greenwich St #2, New York, NY 10013<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/trains-by-maciej-drygas-screening-and-discussion-tickets-1919171907839?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Free event, please RSVP<\/a><\/strong><br><em><strong>The screening will be followed by<strong> a Q&amp;A with Maciej J.<strong> Drygas<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/em> <em><strong><strong>and Bill Morrison<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Masterfully edited&#8230; Harnesses the magic of cinema and as an audience we are haunted by our present historical time, even while we bear witness to the past\u2026 The film confronts us with history both subtly and with exacting precision and without a single word of dialogue.<\/em> <strong>\u2013 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Jury<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Trains is not just a technical achievement \u2013 a skillful and patient result of working with archives \u2013 but also a meditation on the moral weight and responsibility of images.<\/em> <strong>\u2013 Cineuropa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"518\" data-id=\"18984\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Capture-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Capture-3.jpg 752w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Capture-3-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"18983\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Trains1-800450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Trains1-800450-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Trains1-800450-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/Trains1-800450-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"18982\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/trains-036918_14700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/trains-036918_14700.jpg 800w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/trains-036918_14700-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/trains-036918_14700-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for a screening of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainsdoc.com\/\">Trains<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and a discussion on archival documentary filmmaking with director Maciej J. Drygas and Bill Morrison, the Academy Award\u2013nominated experimental filmmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trains is a powerful cinematic journey crafted entirely from archival railway footage gathered from around the world. In this remarkable film, Maciej Drygas weaves together images of motion, industry, and humanity to capture the hopes, desires, and passage of time that defined the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The internationally acclaimed documentary has recently been released in U.S. cinemas as part of a broader promotional campaign accompanying its submission for consideration in the Academy Awards\u2019 Best Documentary Feature category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director <strong>Maciej J. Drygas<\/strong> is a renowned film and radio director, screenwriter, producer, and professor at the Polish National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. His works have received numerous prestigious awards, including the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary for \u201cHear My Cry\u201d (1991), the Prix Italia for the radio documentary \u201cLast Will\u201d (1992), the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival for \u201cState of Weightlessness\u201d (1995), and the award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Cinema Verit\u00e9 festival in Tehran for \u201cAbu Haraz\u201d (2013). Drygas also wrote the libretto for the opera \u201cQudsja Zaher\u201d, which was nominated for the International Opera Awards in London in 2014. He is the originator and founder of the Home Movie Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw. His films and radio documentaries have been broadcast across Europe, as well as in Canada, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, New Caledonia, and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Producer <strong>Vita Zelakeviciute<\/strong> is President of the Management Board at Drygas Film Production since 2017. Producer of notable films including Danger Zone (2023, dir. Vita Maria Dygas) and Trains (2024, dir. Maciej Drygas). With a background in directing award-winning documentaries, \u017delakevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 brings a strong creative vision to her production work. She is also a long-time expert for the Polish Film Institute and a lecturer at the Wajda School in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Trains<\/em> (<em>Poci\u0105gi<\/em>)<br><strong>Director:<\/strong> Maciej J. 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