The period film The Butler [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Filip Bajon, which won two Eagles (the Polish film industry’s annual national awards) this spring, scooped the Silver Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival, and portrays the intertwined destinies of a Polish family between 1900 and 1945 in the north of the Kashubia region, will tomorrow open the 12^th edition of Kinopolska, out of competition and in the presence of its director. Every year, the festival, which will unspool in Paris from 29 November-2 December, in the Le Balzac cinema, just off the Champs-Elysées, trains its spotlight on the sheer diversity of Polish film output, which sometimes finds it tricky to secure decent distribution in France (apart from big names such as Pawel Pawlikowski). Interestingly, Filip Bajon will be honoured twofold at the event, as the opening ceremony will be preceded by a special screening of Damaged [+lee también:
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Standing tall on the Kinopolska programme is a competition that will see six fiction features go head to head. Perhaps the most prominent of them is Corpus Christi [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bartosz Bielenia
entrevista: Jan Komasa
ficha de la película] by Jan Komasa, the Polish candidate for the 2020 Oscar and the winner of the Europa Cinemas Label in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori, but also screened at Toronto, and awarded at Stockholm, Gdynia and CinEast. This title will be distributed in France from 5 February 2020, courtesy of Bodega Films.

Also in the running are Monument [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adrian Panek
ficha de la película] by Adrian Panek (Audience Award at Tallinn, Best Director and Best Score Awards at Gdynia, and incidentally set to be released in Spanish theatres tomorrow, by Cinemaran); and A Coach’s Daughter [+lee también:
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The competition also includes Autsajder [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Adam Sikora, which is set in 1981, as martial law is introduced in Poland in order to stamp out any resistance to the communist regime. It follows a student at art school who has no interest in politics – but politics catches up with him…

Lastly, Michał Rosa will also be partaking in the competition with Piłsudski, a biopic dedicated to Józef Piłsudski, a key figure in 20^th-century Polish politics.

Out of competition, the closing film will be Dolce Fine Giornata [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jacek Borcuch
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The 12^th edition of Kinopolska, which will be attended by several of the directors whose films are on the line-up (Szelc and Borcuch) or by their crew members, will also pay tribute to author Witold Gombrowicz (as part of the commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of his death), in conjunction with the Polish Institute in Paris and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. Also featuring on the programme are three film adaptations of his works (Ferdydurke by Jerzy Skolimowski, Pornography [+lee también:
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entrevista: Victória Guerra
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