The 14th annual Polish Film Festival in America, produced by the Society for Arts, continues Friday, November 22, through Saturday, November 30. Screenings are at the Society for Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $7; passes, available for $40 (five screenings) and $80 (twelve screenings), are good for all programs. For more information call 773-486-9612. The schedule for November 22 through 28 follows; a complete schedule through November 30 is available on-line at www.chicagoreader.com.
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Michal Rogalski of the Lodz Film School directed Film of a Lifetime–Pawel and Ewa, a portrait of a poor farming couple and their sons. In Dagmara Drzazga’s Bobrek Dance, produced for Poland’s Channel One, three boys in a poor section of Silesia learn to break-dance. 81 min. In Polish with subtitles. (7:00)
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Short documentaries, program two
Ich Liebe Alle Frauen
Episodes 13 through 15 of the TV series (see listing for Friday, November 22). 75 min. Directors Jaroslaw Sypniewski and Slawomir Grunberg will attend the screening. (5:00)
Two TV documentaries. In Piwnica (2001) director Antoni Krauze looks at Piwnica pod Baranami, a popular cabaret in Krakow after World War II. Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed the unsubtitled Love for a Vinyl Record, about “vanguard music in Poland.” 84 min. (7:00)
