Polish Film Festival
The Polish Film Festival returns to Nova this November, celebrating the very best of Polish cinema.
Featuring Australian premieres, award-winning festival favourites and a special presentation of a cinematic classic, the festival screens from November 27 to December 6.
Opening Night Event: Friday November 27, 7.00pm A spectacular new adaptation of one of Poland’s greatest literary masterpieces, THE DOLL brings Bolesław Prus’s sweeping story of love, ambition, money and social class to the big screen with an extraordinar ... more
Winner of five awards at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress, the darkly funny and tender debut NO GHOSTS ON GOOD STREET follows four siblings discovering that growing up can change everything — includin ... more
Inspired by a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk, WINTER OF THE CROW, starring Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, The Crown), is a tense political thriller set in December 1981, on the eve of ... more
A landmark of post-war European cinema and a defining work of the Polish Film School, ASHES AND DIAMONS has been repeatedly named among the favourite films of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Visually striking and emotionally charged, it features ... more
From the producers of the Oscar-nominated ‘Corpus Christi’ and a standout at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, where the film won eight awards, including the Golden Lions for Best Film and the Audience Award, THE ALTAR BOYS is a rebellious coming-of-age ... more
Can a change of scenery change your life? THE LOVE BUZZ is a warm-hearted comedy celebrating friendship, second chances and the liberating discovery that happiness rarely arrives according to plan. ... more
She lived as boldly as she painted. Born into a wealthy Polish family, Tamara De Lempicka conquered Paris, made her mark in Hollywood and became an icon of modern art. Today, her distinctive Art Deco paintings are coveted by collectors including Madonna, ... more
Told with humour, raw tenderness and understated emotional power, LACHTARA. LONGING is a poignant road movie about finding your way home, both geographically and emotionally. ... more
Winner of the Audience Award at the Trieste Film Festival and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Warsaw Film Festival, BROTHER is a raw and compelling portrait of brotherhood, resilience and the price of growing up in a fractured world. ... more
Inspired by a true story and fresh from the Main Competition at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, PICASSO’S MERMAID is a charming journey into the past, where the discovery of a drawing by Pablo Picasso brings together a young woman, her eccentric elder ... more
