Top League '21

Top League is dedicated to presenting Polish and world cinema as well as familiarising audiences with the creators. It enables a closer look at the greatest achievements of Polish and international filmmaking, with special attention given to documentary forms. The block is geared at a broad audience, and for the first time this year - including the youngest viewers as well.


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Filmy poprzednich edycji

  • Kanał95'

    With this film Andrzej Wajda’s international fame began. This is the second part in the war trilogy, an adaptation of a short story by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. A terrifying study of the agony of the Warsaw Uprising. A unit of Home Army soldiers is trying to cross the sewers to the still defending Śródmieście. Uprising participants have to live among rats and faeces. The film received a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Lessons of Love / Lekcja Miłości75'

    Throughout her life, Jola did only what others expected of her. As a mother of six and the wife of an impetuous husband, she put on makeup every day, put on colorful clothes and pretended everything was fine. However, one day something breaks in her – Jola finds the strength to leave her husband and start living life to the fullest. She meets friends, dances in the Kawiarnia Uśmiech, writes poems and songs. She sings about love – a feeling she has always dreamed of but never experienced. Unexpectedly meets Wojtek, who treats her like a queen. Will she be able to open herself to love for the first time in her life? Especially when she finds out she has less time than she thought?
     

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  • Lovers / Kochankowie104'

    Lisa (Stacy Martin), spending her vacation with her wealthy husband (Benoît Magimel) on one of the islands of the Indian Ocean, meets Simon (Pierre Niney), an old lover who suddenly disappeared three years ago without a word of explanation. The feeling between them comes alive again. Lisa faces a difficult decision. In addition, she discovers that a cruel man is hiding under the facade of her kind and caring husband.

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  • Lux Æterna50'

    “Lux Æterna” is a hypnotic, devilish and full of black humor story about the backstage of a certain advertising film, the implementation of which got out of hand. Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches – but that’s not all. “Lux Æterna” is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.

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  • Pokolenie83'

    In this film Andrzej Wajda’s directorial talent was revealed. It is an adaptation of a socialist realist novel by Bohdan Czeszka, but the director clearly goes beyond the current trend. The film tells about the activists of the People’s Guard who organize conspiracy against the Nazis during the World War II. In the picture we have a galaxy of Polish actors – Tadeusz Janczar, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski and the future director Roman Polański. “Pokolenie” is the first part in Wajda’s war trilogy

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  • Polowanie na muchy103'

    The film is an adaptation of a short story by Janusz Głowacki and tells a lot of truth about complicated male-female relations. The main character, Włodek, is a married bookstore employee who one day starts an affair with a young girl. Irena, however, turns out to be more possessive than his wife. Great roles in this film were played by Małgorzata Braunek, Zygmunt Malanowicz and Hanka Skarżanka.

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