The first film to be screened on the programme will be Rose, whose title character is the Mazurian widow of a German Wehrmacht soldier who has a relationship with Tadeusz, a former member of the Polish Home Army, whose wife had been killed in the Warsaw Uprising. The backdrop to the film is the expulsion of the Mazurians from their homeland in East Prussia.
Black Thursday, directed by Antoni Krauze, reconstructs the crushing of a workers? demonstration against rising food prices in Gdynia on December 17, 1970. The director will attend the festival.
80 Million follows the events that took place ten days before the introduction of marital law in Poland in 1981. The title refers to money drawn out of trade union Solidarity?s account that was later used to build the underground resistance movement.
A Solidarity activist accused of having collaborated with the communist secret police in the 1980s is is at the centre of The Mole.
In Courage, the brothers Alfred and Jurek witness a helpless girl being mugged on a suburban train. Jurek stands up for her, while Alfred holds back. He later tries to cover up the truth at all costs.
Suicide Room shows the dark side of online social networking.
The director Jerzy Hoffman will come to Budapest for the screening of his 3D film Battle of Warsaw 1920, which shows Poland?s battle against Soviet Russia through the eyes of a cabaret dancer and a cavalry officer.
