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2021 Madison Polish Film Festival (DAY 2)
November 21, 2021 @ 2:30 pm
Sunday, November 21st at the Cinematheque
Vilas Communication Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison
Event Website: gns.wisc.edu/madison-polish-film-festival/
The Madison Polish Film Festival is a free annual event organized by the UW-Madison Polish Student Association in collaboration with the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, CREECA, Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Committee, Associated Students of Madison (ASM), and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison.
The festival hosts a variety of films each year that explore Polish culture and identity as well as support the work of Polish writers and directors. Join us in celebrating Polish artists and visionaries at this year’s festival on November 14th and November 21st 2021!
Back Then (Zupa Nic)
@ 2:30 pm
Marta is a romantic and a school victim of fate. He shares a room with his sister Kasia and
grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room
behind the wall, my parents – Tadek and Elzbieta – live their married life. He is a constantly
humiliated intelligent by the system who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law. She is the
president of the company’s “Solidarity” with the need for freedom and a dream to finally break out of
Poland. However, the real emotions for the whole family will start when the dream orange Fiat 126p
stands under the block…
Leave No Traces (Nie zostawiaj sladów)
@ 4:30 pm
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk — a high school student
beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek — the only
witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive
regime used its whole apparatus — the secret service, militia, the media and the courts — to squeeze
Jurek and other people close to the case, including his parents and Przemyk’s mother, Barbara.