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Special Screening of Polish Women's Cinema

Polemics: Sexual Politics of 'Room'Memorial Screening for Agnès Varda & Barbara Hammer

Since its inception, SIWFF has screened feminist films from all around the world. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Poland and South Korea, SIWFF presents Polish women’s films under the auspices of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI). Looking back over the past 100 years, Poland and Korea share a similar history of tragedy in part caused by the geopolitical location of powerful nations. Amid those respective situations, women had to endure severe hardships. The tragedies of Polish women were exposed and depicted in films such as The Last Stage (1947), the story of female prisoners by a director who was herself a Holocaust survivor; A Lonely Woman (1981), a tale of a low-class woman in communist Poland; and Papusza (2013), the story of a female gypsy poet who lives through the Second World War and the communist period. Solidarity according to Women (2014) and Women Power (2018), co-directed by Marta DZIDO and Piotr SLIWOWSKI whose works are focused mainly on the history of women’s movements in Poland, recall the female activists and voices in the solidarity movement who strived for the right to education and the right to vote. Among recent female works that have been recognized at Cannes and Berlin, Tower, A Bright Day (2017) and Fugue (2018) depict the betrayals of female characters with overwhelming tension. This special program will provide audiences with an opportunity to see the power of Polish women’s cinema through films that recall and record the lives of Polish women, and to experience films at the cutting edge of Polish cinema.
KWON Eunhye / Programmer