The 23rd KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival takes place in London from March and brings another compelling line-up of contemporary and classic Polish cinema to the UK.

KINOTEKA will also head across the UK, with regional editions in 8 UK cities, including four hand-selected titles playing at Showroom Cinema.

The season will highlight Poland’s rich cinema heritage and contemporary innovators. Two titles from the festival’s New Polish Cinema strand, Under the Volcano and It’s Not My Film, represent the most significant Polish productions of recent years

Under the Volcano garnered the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti programme of the Venice Film Festival. The film follows a Ukrainian family of four on vacation in the Canary Islands who become refugees overnight when Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full-scale invasion. While frantically awaiting news from home they are left wondering what to do and where to go in this tense and timely drama.

It’s Not My Film is a tender and thoughtful relationship drama, that sees a struggling couple on the verge of divorce. Giving themselves an ultimatum, they decide to go on a 400-kilometer hike along the Baltic Sea in the middle of winter. If they can overcome the challenge, they will stay together forever, and if not, they will break up.

Polish documentary filmmaking is represented by the breathtaking The Silent Trees, a hard-hitting film exploring the human impact of Poland’s border closures in 2021.16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa and her family, fleeing ISIS, have made it to the icy, wild pine forest at the border, but everything changes for her overnight when her mum freezes to death in the forest.

Finally, for fans of cult cinema, Showroom is proud to present The Saragossa Manuscript, Wojciech Has’s legendary 1965 adaptation of Jan Potocki’s surrealist epic. A dreamlike odyssey of duels, ghosts and secret societies, the film became a favourite of countercultural icons like Jerry Garcia, Luis Buñuel, and David Lynch. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola funded this restoration and there is no better way to experience it than on the big screen.

KINOTEKA on TOUR is Part of the UK – Poland Season of Cultural Exchange organized by the British Council, Polish Cultural Institute and Adam Mickiewicz Institute in partnership with Klassiki.

Tickets are now on sale at: /kinotekaontour