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Sunday, May 3 \u2014 Sunday, July 12, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aero Theatre<\/strong>
1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica , CA90403<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egyptian Theatre<\/strong>
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective<\/a><\/strong> offers a look back at the sublimely transcendent cinema of the Polish master. Thirty years after passing at the zenith of his fame, Kie\u015blowski\u2019s films still linger in the cultural consciousness, proving the medium’s unique ability to navigate complex metaphysical queries. From the early documentaries capturing Poland\u2019s working class and the social realist examinations of life under communism, to abstract reflections on universal complexities ranging from fate to virtue and everything in between, our retrospective honors the luminous work of the visionary behind a kaleidoscopic world of vivid humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Replete with glowing refractions of light, dreamlike coincidences and an entrancingly melancholic performance by Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, earning her the Best Actress Award at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, our curated series begins with Kie\u015blowski\u2019s international sensation The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique<\/em>. An unforgettable reverie on the fragmentation of identity and the mysterious nature of love, The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique<\/em> is an essential entry in the Polish master\u2019s repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continue our retrospective with the last three films of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career as a marathon screening of his lyrical Three Colors<\/em> trilogy. Named after the colors of the French flag and themed around the national motto of \u201cliberty, equality and fraternity,\u201d the trilogy is led by four spellbinding performances conjured by Juliette Binoche, Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski. The first of the series, the symphonic Blue<\/em>, ruminates on the concept of liberation within a story about a woman who loses her husband and young daughter in a car accident, headed by a mesmerizing Juliette Binoche as the grieving widowed mother. Dark comedy White<\/em> revolves around a French woman played by an ethereal Julie Delpy who divorces her Polish husband and the tale of revenge that ensues, simultaneously dissecting the theme of equality through economic and cultural quandaries in the context of post-communist Poland. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s last film and final installment of the trilogy, Red<\/em>, follows an effervescent Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as Valentine, a young student and model who forms an unlikely connection with a retired judge. Garnering three Academy Award nominations, including Best Director for Kie\u015blowski, and nominated for the Palme d\u2019Or, this vision of destiny and circumstance examines the tenet of fraternity while closing out the career of an almost mythic cinematic figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retrospective of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career would be incomplete without spotlighting the documentaries from the nascence of his filmmaking. Our documentary shorts program includes six nonfiction short films from 1971 to 1980, each observing different segments of Polish society. From the workers of a funeral home, to a group of veterans blinded in a minefield, and a security guard proclaiming his support for capital punishment, each short acts as a portrait of Poland\u2019s working class, detailing the aspirations, fears and beliefs of a generation under communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blind Chance<\/em>, one of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s first feature films, was initially censored by the Polish government for its politically contentious elements as the political collides with the metaphysical in this layered narrative of kismet that centers around a medical student ambivalent about his future. Rounding out the series is the entirety of the filmmaker\u2019s masterful Dekalog<\/em> miniseries and the resulting two feature length films born out of it. Every hour-long installment is themed around one of The Ten Commandments and explores the lives of residents in a housing project, with Parts Five and Six being expanded into the feature films A Short Film About Killing<\/em> and A Short Film About Love<\/em> respectively. The miniseries has received a myriad of praise internationally since its debut, as well as winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best International Programme, and has transcended the preconceived notions of television as an artistic medium. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, Dekalog<\/em> arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Double Life of Veronique<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1991 \/ 98min \/ 4K DCP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, May 3 at 3:00 PM
Aero Theatre<\/strong>
1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film that introduced Kie\u015blowski to an international audience, metaphysical mystery The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique<\/em> features Ir\u00e8ne Jacob in a double role, playing Weronika, a soprano in a Polish choir, and V\u00e9ronique, a French music teacher. The two doppelgangers meet only once yet share a deep synchronicity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Short Film About Love & A Short Film About Killing<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Aero Theatre<\/strong>
1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 87min \/ DCP
An expanded version of episode VI in Dekalog<\/em>, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 85min \/ DCP
A powerful expiation of episode V of Dekalog, A Short Film About Killing <\/em>considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three Colors: Blue<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1993 \/ 94min \/ DCP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, May 17 at 5:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre<\/strong>
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the devastating first film of the Three Colors <\/em>trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue<\/em> is more than just a blistering study of grief; it\u2019s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Three Colors: White <\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 92min \/ DCP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, May 17 at 6:43 PM
Egyptian Theatre<\/strong>
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q&A with actor Julie Delpy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most playful and also the grittiest of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s Three Colors <\/em>films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol\u2019s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Three Colors: Red<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 99min \/ DCP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, May 17 at 8:44 PM
Egyptian Theatre<\/strong>
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kie\u015blowski closes his Three Colors<\/em> trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean\u2011Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red <\/em>is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Blind Chance<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 PM<\/strong>
Los Feliz Theatre
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncertain as to where his future lies after his father\u2019s death robs him of his sense of vocation, medical student Witek (Bogus\u0142aw Linda) impulsively decides to catch a train to Warsaw. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s triptych film shows three possible outcomes branching off from this pivotal moment, with our protagonist alternately joining the Communist Party, joining the anti-Communist resistance, or resuming his studies with renewed vigor, and facing further adversities in every case. Suppressed by Polish authorities on its completion in 1981, Blind Chance<\/em> would only surface six years later, in a compromised form, in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski Documentary Shorts Program<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Friday, May 29 at 4:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A program of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s short nonfiction films, where the same dedication as found in his fiction work. Includes The Office<\/em>, an early study in bureaucratic torment produced while the director was still at \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School; I Was a Soldier<\/em>, a platform for blind veterans to recall their experiences and recount their dreams; From a Night Porter\u2019s Point of View<\/em>, a 17-minute interview with a highly opinionated minor security functionary who revels in the small portion of authority he enjoys; Hospital<\/em>, an immersion into 24 hours in the life in an overcrowded and underfunded Warsaw emergency room; Talking Heads<\/em>, in which 79 interviewees from various walks of life and of all ages answer same questions; and Railway Station<\/em>, trying to photograph \u2018lost\u2019 people\u201d at the Warsaw Central Railway Station.
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Dekalog: One & Two<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, Jun 14 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dekalog<\/em> focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dekalog: Three & Four <\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, Jun 21 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first four episodes of Kie\u015blowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz\u2019s serial masterwork. Each episode inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, focused on a resident or residents of a single late-Communist era housing complex, and exploring the difficulties that arise in following ancient proscriptions in a complex contemporary world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dekalog: Five & Six<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, June 28 at 10:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fifth and sixth episodes\u2014titled, respectively, Thou Shall Not Kill<\/em>, later expanded on in Kie\u015blowski\u2019s A Short Film About Killing<\/em>, and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery<\/em>, expanded as A Short Film About Love<\/em>\u2014are perhaps the most celebrated entries in the Dekalog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dekalog: Seven & Eight<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, July 5 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No less compelling, and ethically knotty, however, is the seventh chapter, Thou Shalt Not Steal, in which the disputed \u201cproperty\u201d in question is a six-year-old girl caught in a tug-of-war custody battle between her grandmother and mother, which soon crosses over the line of legality. In the eight episode, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, an ethics professor reflects on the unexpected consequences of failing to help a Jewish girl during the war. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dekalog: Nine & Ten<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, July 12 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre<\/strong>
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monumental serial counts down the remaining Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife and Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Goods. In the tragicomic Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife, an impotent middle-aged man urges his wife to take a lover and bitterly regrets it. In the final chapter, two sons inherit their late father\u2019s valuable stamp collection and become dangerously obsessed with it. Together they form the capstone to one of cinema\u2019s most majestic works, despite its television origins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Polish Cultural Institute New York presents a retrospective in partnership with the American Cinematheque.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thirty years after passing at the zenith of his fame, Kie\u015blowski\u2019s films still linger in the cultural consciousness, proving the medium's unique ability to navigate complex metaphysical queries. From the early documentaries capturing Poland\u2019s working class and the social realist examinations of life under communism, to abstract reflections on universal complexities ranging from fate to virtue and everything in between, our retrospective honors the luminous work of the visionary behind a kaleidoscopic world of vivid humanity.\\nReplete with glowing refractions of light, dreamlike coincidences and an entrancingly melancholic performance by Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, earning her the Best Actress Award at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, our curated series begins with Kie\u015blowski\u2019s international sensation The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique. An unforgettable reverie on the fragmentation of identity and the mysterious nature of love, The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique is an essential entry in the Polish master\u2019s repertoire.\\nWe continue our retrospective with the last three films of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career as a marathon screening of his lyrical Three Colors trilogy. Named after the colors of the French flag and themed around the national motto of \u201cliberty, equality and fraternity,\u201d the trilogy is led by four spellbinding performances conjured by Juliette Binoche, Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski. The first of the series, the symphonic Blue, ruminates on the concept of liberation within a story about a woman who loses her husband and young daughter in a car accident, headed by a mesmerizing Juliette Binoche as the grieving widowed mother. Dark comedy White revolves around a French woman played by an ethereal Julie Delpy who divorces her Polish husband and the tale of revenge that ensues, simultaneously dissecting the theme of equality through economic and cultural quandaries in the context of post-communist Poland. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s last film and final installment of the trilogy, Red, follows an effervescent Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as Valentine, a young student and model who forms an unlikely connection with a retired judge. Garnering three Academy Award nominations, including Best Director for Kie\u015blowski, and nominated for the Palme d\u2019Or, this vision of destiny and circumstance examines the tenet of fraternity while closing out the career of an almost mythic cinematic figure.\\nA retrospective of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career would be incomplete without spotlighting the documentaries from the nascence of his filmmaking. Our documentary shorts program includes six nonfiction short films from 1971 to 1980, each observing different segments of Polish society. From the workers of a funeral home, to a group of veterans blinded in a minefield, and a security guard proclaiming his support for capital punishment, each short acts as a portrait of Poland\u2019s working class, detailing the aspirations, fears and beliefs of a generation under communism.\\nBlind Chance, one of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s first feature films, was initially censored by the Polish government for its politically contentious elements as the political collides with the metaphysical in this layered narrative of kismet that centers around a medical student ambivalent about his future. Rounding out the series is the entirety of the filmmaker\u2019s masterful Dekalog miniseries and the resulting two feature length films born out of it. Every hour-long installment is themed around one of The Ten Commandments and explores the lives of residents in a housing project, with Parts Five and Six being expanded into the feature films A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love respectively. The miniseries has received a myriad of praise internationally since its debut, as well as winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best International Programme, and has transcended the preconceived notions of television as an artistic medium. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, Dekalog arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.\\nThe Double Life of Veronique\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1991 \/ 98min \/ 4K DCP\\nSunday, May 3 at 3:00 PMAero Theatre1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403\\nThe film that introduced Kie\u015blowski to an international audience, metaphysical mystery The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique features Ir\u00e8ne Jacob in a double role, playing Weronika, a soprano in a Polish choir, and V\u00e9ronique, a French music teacher. The two doppelgangers meet only once yet share a deep synchronicity.\\nA Short Film About Love & A Short Film About Killing\\nWednesday, May 13 at 7:30 PMAero Theatre1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 87min \/ DCPAn expanded version of episode VI in Dekalog, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman.\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 85min \/ DCPA powerful expiation of episode V of Dekalog, A Short Film About Killing considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.\\nThree Colors: Blue\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1993 \/ 94min \/ DCP\\nSunday, May 17 at 5:00 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\\nIn the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it\u2019s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. \\nThree Colors: White \\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 92min \/ DCP\\nSunday, May 17 at 6:43 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\\nQ&A with actor Julie Delpy\\nThe most playful and also the grittiest of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol\u2019s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.\\nThree Colors: Red\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 99min \/ DCP\\nSunday, May 17 at 8:44 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\\nKie\u015blowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean\u2011Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.\\nBlind Chance\\nWednesday, May 20 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nUncertain as to where his future lies after his father\u2019s death robs him of his sense of vocation, medical student Witek (Bogus\u0142aw Linda) impulsively decides to catch a train to Warsaw. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s triptych film shows three possible outcomes branching off from this pivotal moment, with our protagonist alternately joining the Communist Party, joining the anti-Communist resistance, or resuming his studies with renewed vigor, and facing further adversities in every case. Suppressed by Polish authorities on its completion in 1981, Blind Chance would only surface six years later, in a compromised form, in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.\\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski Documentary Shorts Program\\nFriday, May 29 at 4:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nA program of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s short nonfiction films, where the same dedication as found in his fiction work. Includes The Office, an early study in bureaucratic torment produced while the director was still at \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School; I Was a Soldier, a platform for blind veterans to recall their experiences and recount their dreams; From a Night Porter\u2019s Point of View, a 17-minute interview with a highly opinionated minor security functionary who revels in the small portion of authority he enjoys; Hospital, an immersion into 24 hours in the life in an overcrowded and underfunded Warsaw emergency room; Talking Heads, in which 79 interviewees from various walks of life and of all ages answer same questions; and Railway Station, trying to photograph \u2018lost\u2019 people\u201d at the Warsaw Central Railway Station.\\nDekalog: One & Two\\nSunday, Jun 14 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nDekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. \\nDekalog: Three & Four \\nSunday, Jun 21 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nThe first four episodes of Kie\u015blowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz\u2019s serial masterwork. Each episode inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, focused on a resident or residents of a single late-Communist era housing complex, and exploring the difficulties that arise in following ancient proscriptions in a complex contemporary world.\\nDekalog: Five & Six\\nSunday, June 28 at 10:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nThe fifth and sixth episodes\u2014titled, respectively, Thou Shall Not Kill, later expanded on in Kie\u015blowski\u2019s A Short Film About Killing, and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, expanded as A Short Film About Love\u2014are perhaps the most celebrated entries in the Dekalog.\\nDekalog: Seven & Eight\\nSunday, July 5 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nNo less compelling, and ethically knotty, however, is the seventh chapter, Thou Shalt Not Steal, in which the disputed \u201cproperty\u201d in question is a six-year-old girl caught in a tug-of-war custody battle between her grandmother and mother, which soon crosses over the line of legality. In the eight episode, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, an ethics professor reflects on the unexpected consequences of failing to help a Jewish girl during the war. \\nDekalog: Nine & Ten\\nSunday, July 12 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\\nMonumental serial counts down the remaining Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife and Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods. In the tragicomic Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife, an impotent middle-aged man urges his wife to take a lover and bitterly regrets it. In the final chapter, two sons inherit their late father\u2019s valuable stamp collection and become dangerously obsessed with it. 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Thirty years after passing at the zenith of his fame, Kie\u015blowski\u2019s films still linger in the cultural consciousness, proving the medium's unique ability to navigate complex metaphysical queries. From the early documentaries capturing Poland\u2019s working class and the social realist examinations of life under communism, to abstract reflections on universal complexities ranging from fate to virtue and everything in between, our retrospective honors the luminous work of the visionary behind a kaleidoscopic world of vivid humanity.\nReplete with glowing refractions of light, dreamlike coincidences and an entrancingly melancholic performance by Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, earning her the Best Actress Award at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, our curated series begins with Kie\u015blowski\u2019s international sensation The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique. An unforgettable reverie on the fragmentation of identity and the mysterious nature of love, The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique is an essential entry in the Polish master\u2019s repertoire.\nWe continue our retrospective with the last three films of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career as a marathon screening of his lyrical Three Colors trilogy. Named after the colors of the French flag and themed around the national motto of \u201cliberty, equality and fraternity,\u201d the trilogy is led by four spellbinding performances conjured by Juliette Binoche, Ir\u00e8ne Jacob, Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski. The first of the series, the symphonic Blue, ruminates on the concept of liberation within a story about a woman who loses her husband and young daughter in a car accident, headed by a mesmerizing Juliette Binoche as the grieving widowed mother. Dark comedy White revolves around a French woman played by an ethereal Julie Delpy who divorces her Polish husband and the tale of revenge that ensues, simultaneously dissecting the theme of equality through economic and cultural quandaries in the context of post-communist Poland. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s last film and final installment of the trilogy, Red, follows an effervescent Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as Valentine, a young student and model who forms an unlikely connection with a retired judge. Garnering three Academy Award nominations, including Best Director for Kie\u015blowski, and nominated for the Palme d\u2019Or, this vision of destiny and circumstance examines the tenet of fraternity while closing out the career of an almost mythic cinematic figure.\nA retrospective of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s career would be incomplete without spotlighting the documentaries from the nascence of his filmmaking. Our documentary shorts program includes six nonfiction short films from 1971 to 1980, each observing different segments of Polish society. From the workers of a funeral home, to a group of veterans blinded in a minefield, and a security guard proclaiming his support for capital punishment, each short acts as a portrait of Poland\u2019s working class, detailing the aspirations, fears and beliefs of a generation under communism.\nBlind Chance, one of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s first feature films, was initially censored by the Polish government for its politically contentious elements as the political collides with the metaphysical in this layered narrative of kismet that centers around a medical student ambivalent about his future. Rounding out the series is the entirety of the filmmaker\u2019s masterful Dekalog miniseries and the resulting two feature length films born out of it. Every hour-long installment is themed around one of The Ten Commandments and explores the lives of residents in a housing project, with Parts Five and Six being expanded into the feature films A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love respectively. The miniseries has received a myriad of praise internationally since its debut, as well as winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best International Programme, and has transcended the preconceived notions of television as an artistic medium. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, Dekalog arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.\nThe Double Life of Veronique\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1991 \/ 98min \/ 4K DCP\nSunday, May 3 at 3:00 PMAero Theatre1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403\nThe film that introduced Kie\u015blowski to an international audience, metaphysical mystery The Double Life of V\u00e9ronique features Ir\u00e8ne Jacob in a double role, playing Weronika, a soprano in a Polish choir, and V\u00e9ronique, a French music teacher. The two doppelgangers meet only once yet share a deep synchronicity.\nA Short Film About Love & A Short Film About Killing\nWednesday, May 13 at 7:30 PMAero Theatre1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA90403\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 87min \/ DCPAn expanded version of episode VI in Dekalog, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman.\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1988 \/ 85min \/ DCPA powerful expiation of episode V of Dekalog, A Short Film About Killing considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.\nThree Colors: Blue\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1993 \/ 94min \/ DCP\nSunday, May 17 at 5:00 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\nIn the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it\u2019s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. \nThree Colors: White \nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 92min \/ DCP\nSunday, May 17 at 6:43 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\nQ&A with actor Julie Delpy\nThe most playful and also the grittiest of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol\u2019s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.\nThree Colors: Red\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski \/ 1994 \/ 99min \/ DCP\nSunday, May 17 at 8:44 PMEgyptian Theatre6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA90028\nKie\u015blowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Ir\u00e8ne Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean\u2011Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.\nBlind Chance\nWednesday, May 20 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nUncertain as to where his future lies after his father\u2019s death robs him of his sense of vocation, medical student Witek (Bogus\u0142aw Linda) impulsively decides to catch a train to Warsaw. Kie\u015blowski\u2019s triptych film shows three possible outcomes branching off from this pivotal moment, with our protagonist alternately joining the Communist Party, joining the anti-Communist resistance, or resuming his studies with renewed vigor, and facing further adversities in every case. Suppressed by Polish authorities on its completion in 1981, Blind Chance would only surface six years later, in a compromised form, in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.\nKrzysztof Kie\u015blowski Documentary Shorts Program\nFriday, May 29 at 4:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nA program of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s short nonfiction films, where the same dedication as found in his fiction work. Includes The Office, an early study in bureaucratic torment produced while the director was still at \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School; I Was a Soldier, a platform for blind veterans to recall their experiences and recount their dreams; From a Night Porter\u2019s Point of View, a 17-minute interview with a highly opinionated minor security functionary who revels in the small portion of authority he enjoys; Hospital, an immersion into 24 hours in the life in an overcrowded and underfunded Warsaw emergency room; Talking Heads, in which 79 interviewees from various walks of life and of all ages answer same questions; and Railway Station, trying to photograph \u2018lost\u2019 people\u201d at the Warsaw Central Railway Station.\nDekalog: One & Two\nSunday, Jun 14 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nDekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. \nDekalog: Three & Four \nSunday, Jun 21 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nThe first four episodes of Kie\u015blowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz\u2019s serial masterwork. Each episode inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, focused on a resident or residents of a single late-Communist era housing complex, and exploring the difficulties that arise in following ancient proscriptions in a complex contemporary world.\nDekalog: Five & Six\nSunday, June 28 at 10:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nThe fifth and sixth episodes\u2014titled, respectively, Thou Shall Not Kill, later expanded on in Kie\u015blowski\u2019s A Short Film About Killing, and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, expanded as A Short Film About Love\u2014are perhaps the most celebrated entries in the Dekalog.\nDekalog: Seven & Eight\nSunday, July 5 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nNo less compelling, and ethically knotty, however, is the seventh chapter, Thou Shalt Not Steal, in which the disputed \u201cproperty\u201d in question is a six-year-old girl caught in a tug-of-war custody battle between her grandmother and mother, which soon crosses over the line of legality. In the eight episode, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, an ethics professor reflects on the unexpected consequences of failing to help a Jewish girl during the war. \nDekalog: Nine & Ten\nSunday, July 12 at 7:00 PMLos Feliz Theatre1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA90027\nMonumental serial counts down the remaining Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife and Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods. In the tragicomic Covet Thy Neighbor\u2019s Wife, an impotent middle-aged man urges his wife to take a lover and bitterly regrets it. In the final chapter, two sons inherit their late father\u2019s valuable stamp collection and become dangerously obsessed with it. Together they form the capstone to one of cinema\u2019s most majestic works, despite its television origins.\nThe Polish Cultural Institute New York presents a retrospective in partnership with the American Cinematheque."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2026\/04\/16\/krzysztof-kieslowski-an-american-cinematheque-retrospective\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/KIESLOWSKI_Hero.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/KIESLOWSKI_Hero.png","width":620,"height":348},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2026\/04\/16\/krzysztof-kieslowski-an-american-cinematheque-retrospective\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/c732b2695ee92026d080eec35471c7f1","name":"stypulkowskaa","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"stypulkowskaa"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20443,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions\/20443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}