Documentaries
To celebrate the recent successes of Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida, the winner of this year's Oscars Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language category, BAFTA Award for Best Film Not In the English Language and the Oscars nominee for Cinematography, KINOTEKA presents programme of the documentary films which commenced Pawlikowsk's career in filmmaking. These highly poetic and imagistic pieces won him fans and many awards around the world, including Grierson Award and Emmy International. Pawlikowski's distinctive mixing of facts with elements of the personal and poetic has challenged the boundaries of the television documentary and influenced his later cinematic work. KINOTEKA invites you to a weekend with Pawel Pawlikowski and his documentaries: a journey into the tragi-comic and absurd lives of characters like Vladimir Zhirinovsky or the only living descendant of Fyodor Dostoevsky.