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Thu 8 May
Gdanski Train Station All Power to the Imagination! // Polish evening : March 68
The Polish Cultural Institute and Cine Lumiere are proud to present a series of films on the mysterious Polish “March of 1968”, a time that until today evokes a lot of controversy inside Poland while it is largely unheard of outside. • Gdanski Train Station [Poland | 2006 | 52mins | doc | dir. Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz]
An attempt to cope with painful events of 1968 an outbreak of the anti-Semitic hysteria which led to mass exile of citizens of Jewish origin from Poland. Emigrants have been meeting for 20 years in an Israeli spa, Aszkelon, located at the Mediterranean Sea. It's been 37 years since they left and Poland is still present at their homes. The emigrants' stories were enriched with unique archive materials.
• Kredens [Poland | 2007 | 28mins | dir. Jacob Dammas]
After his arrival in Wroclaw, Jacob Dammas visits the place where his mother was living with her father before their exile in 1968. He is talking to her former neighbours, he is directed to yet another address to find an old-time family memento – the cupboard, mentioned in the title.
Followed by a debate on March 68 events with Krzysztof Pszenicki (head of BBC Polish section in the 80s who left Poland in 1968) and Neal Ascherson (Observer correspondent). Chaired by Leopold Sobel.
Thu 8 May | 8.30pm | cert. 12 | DB2 
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