Film

Forbidden. Censorship in cinema.

These are films which were restricted due to their upsetting content and/or brutal scenes, all the while challenging moralities or political establishments, and will include films restricted by democratic governments in Western countries.

Much is currently being said about the return of censorship to Poland. Politicians and government officials consider it their right to tell artists what they are to create and how. What and and cannot be shown in their institutions, during their festivals. They are using economic forms of censorship. I will present films banned by regimes from various periods in history. At times, they were very close to being destroyed, while others languished on archive shelves, not being screened. We ought to remind ourselves how artists fought against censorship, how they tried to outsmart it. I will show works which were controversial at the time of their making, those that arouse extreme emotions, at times iconoclastic, which as a result have become part of cinematic history. Some of these are still considered scandalous. These are films which were restricted due to their upsetting content and/or brutal scenes, all the while challenging moralities or political establishments, and will include films restricted by democratic governments in Western countries.

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February 15

She was a friend of someone else

Gosia Wdowik
Kaserne Basel, Bazylea (Szwajcaria)

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
La Colline - théâtre national, Paryż (Francja)

Silenzio!

Ramona Nagabczyńska
Theater / Dance
Audio Description

February 16

She was a friend of someone else

Gosia Wdowik
Kaserne Basel, Bazylea (Szwajcaria)

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
La Colline - théâtre national, Paryż (Francja)

Silenzio!

Ramona Nagabczyńska
Theater / Dance

February 21

The Polaks Explain the Future

Wojtek Ziemilski
Theater

February 22

The Polaks Explain the Future

Wojtek Ziemilski
Theater
Audio Description

February 23

The Polaks Explain the Future

Wojtek Ziemilski
Theater
Polish Sign Language

March 01

Threesome/Trzy

Réplika Teatro Centro Internacional de Creación, Madryt (Hiszpania)

March 02

Threesome/Trzy

Réplika Teatro Centro Internacional de Creación, Madryt (Hiszpania)

March 06

Sold out

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Theater
Polish subtitles for the deaf

March 07

Sold out

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Theater
English subtitles
French subtitles

March 08

Sold out

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Theater
English subtitles
French subtitles

March 09

Sold out

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Theater
English subtitles
Ukrainian subtitles

March 14

The Apocalypse

Michał Borczuch
Theater / Age 16+

March 15

The Apocalypse

Michał Borczuch
Theater / Age 16+
English subtitles

March 16

The Apocalypse

Michał Borczuch
Theater / Age 16+

March 21

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Das Schauspiel Stuttgart (Niemcy)

Expiria

Agnieszka Kryst
Theater / Dance

March 22

Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee

Krzysztof Warlikowski
Das Schauspiel Stuttgart (Niemcy)

Expiria

Agnieszka Kryst
Theater / Dance

March 23

Expiria

Agnieszka Kryst
Theater / Dance

March 27

She was a friend of someone else

Gosia Wdowik
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, (Niemcy)

March 28

She was a friend of someone else

Gosia Wdowik
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, (Niemcy)

April 16

Winter Light

Ingmar Bergman | Tomasz Fryzeł
Theater

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