Ginger & Rosa - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

32 Play Poland
JOANNA FEAR OF FALLING ELLES
Play Poland
A selection of the best new
Polish filmmaking.
Joanna
Thu 11 Oct at 8.45pm
Feliks Falk • Poland 2010 • 1h45m • Format TBC
Polish, French and German with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Urszula Grabowska, Sara Knothe, Stanislawa Celinska,
Kinga Preis, Halina Labonarska.
When seven-year-old Rose is separated from her mother
in German-occupied Warsaw during a roundup, she seeks
refuge in the pews where a young woman, Joanna, goes
to pray. Joanna, a piano teacher waiting to hear news of
her soldier husband who she has not seen in years, takes
the child home. They embark on a relationship that helps
to heal their respective losses.
80 Million 80 milionów
Thu 18 Oct at 8.45pm
Waldemar Krzystek • Poland 2011 • 1h50m
Digital projection • Polish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Filip Bobek, Marcin Bosak, Wojciech Solarz, Piotr Glowacki.
Lower Silesia, the autumn of 1981. After a series of
provocations by the Security Service, the confrontation of
the opposition with the Communists seems to be inevitable.
Shortly before the announcement of martial law, young
activists of the Solidarity movement withdraw 80 million of
federal money from a bank in Wroclaw before the account is
blocked. The Security Service is on their heels, and an exciting
game begins, involving the clergy and moneychangers…
Fear of Falling Lek wysokosci
Thu 25 Oct at 6.15pm
Bartosz Konopka • Poland 2011 • 1h27m
Format TBC • Polish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Marcin Dorocinski, Krzysztof Stroinski, Dorota Kolak.
Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man
when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric
hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen
in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends
and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek
returns home to face the man he hardly knows.
The Winner Wygrany
Thu 1 Nov at 8.45pm
Wieslaw Saniewski • Poland/USA 2011 • 1h51m
Format TBC • Polish and English with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Pawel Szajda, Janusz Gajos, Grazyna Barszczewska.
A talented young American pianist of Polish origin is under
pressure from his mother, his ex-wife, and his agent. Under
stress, he suddenly pulls out of a European tour which
puts him in a very complicated financial situation. While in
Warsaw, he meets a retired mathematics teacher who is a
horse-racing enthusiast, and the two hatch a plan to win
big money at the races.
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Elles
Thu 8 Nov at 8.45pm
Malgorzata Szumowska • France/Poland/Germany 2011 • 1h39m
Format TBC • French and Polish with English subtitles
18 – Contains strong nudity, sex, sexual fetish and a scene of
sexual violence
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do
de Lencquesaing, Krystyna Janda.
Juliette Binoche stars as a journalist researching an article
on student prostitution for the French edition of Elle
magazine, who finds herself drawn to two young women.
The stories these seemingly well-adjusted girls share force
the middle-aged writer to examine her own life and family.
Director Malgorzata Szumowska places female sexuality, in
all its complexity, under a microscope.
The Canadian Dresses
Kanadyjskie Sukienki
Thu 15 Nov at 5.45pm
Maciej Michalski • Poland 2012 • 2h
Format TBC • Polish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Anna Seniuk, Zofia Czerwinska, Ewa Kasprzyk, Piotr Polk,
Elzbieta Jarosik.
In a Polish village in the 1980s, Sophia is enjoying her
birthday and excitedly awaiting the arrival of her daughter
Amelia and her husband, who have lived in Canada for
the last ten years. But when Amelia arrives, she is alone.
Gradually we discover why Amelia left in the first place,
and that her supposed dream life is far from perfect.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Maciej Michalski.