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 the 2023 festival on November 19th and December 3rd at the Marquee Cinema.

2023 Madison Polish Film Festival Details

This year’s edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival will be held on November 19th and December 3rd
at the Marquee Cinema (Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St.).
More details about the films, locations, and viewing times can be found below.

All the films will be subtitled in English.

This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

Please reach out to Krzysztof Borowski with any questions: borowski3@wisc.edu.

Daddy Tata poster (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)

Daddy / Tata (2022)

Showing November 19th @ 3:00 pm (1 h 50 min)
Marquee Cinema at Union South
2nd Floor, 308 W Dayton St #245, Madison

A lonely dad, facing the sudden death of a Ukrainian babysitter, takes his daughter and her friend on a journey by truck. Will a trucker and two scamp girls handle the transport of frozen fish, body smuggling and life without a home?


Director: Anna Maliszewska

Starring: Eryk Lubos, Polina Gromova, Klaudia Kurak, Maria Svizhinska, Marta Malikowska, Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergei Solovyov.

Dangerous Gentlemen / Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni (2022)

Showing November 19th @ 5:30 pm (1 h 50 min)
Marquee Cinema at Union South
2nd Floor, 308 W Dayton St #245, Madison

Joseph Conrad and three other notorious artists wake up after a crazy party with a dead man on their couch with no clue who he was, why he’s dead, or why the gendarme is knocking at the door.


Director: Maciej Kawalski

Starring: Tomasz Kot, Andrzej Seweryn, Marcin Dorociński, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Michał Czernecki, Jacek Koman, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja.

Dangerous Gentlemen poster (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)
Shreds poster (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)

Shreds / Strzępy (2022)

Showing December 3rd @ 3:00 pm (1 h 40 min)
Marquee Cinema at Union South
2nd Floor, 308 W Dayton St #245, Madison

The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. Suddenly a crack appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms. It turns out that these are the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s.


Director: Beata Dzianowicz

Starring: Michał Żurawski, Grzegorz Przybył, Agnieszka Radzikowska, Pola Król, Dariusz Chojnacki.

Filip (2023)

Showing November 20th @ 6:30 pm (2 h 5 min)
Marquee Cinema at Union South
2nd Floor, 308 W Dayton St #245, Madison

In 1943, a Polish Jew, who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto, is waiting restaurant tables in Frankfurt while pretending to be French and taking revenge on the Nazis in his own unique way.


Director: Michał Kwieciński

Starring: Eryk Kulm jr, Caroline Hartig, Victor Meutelet, Zoe Straub, Sandra Drzymalska, Robert Więckiewicz.

Filip poster (2023 Madison Polish Film Festival)