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PREVIOUS EVENTS

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PFFLA NEWS FLASH ( V )

September 13th, 2024

 

Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will be at Polish Festival in Adams, LA.

Saturday and Sunday, October 5th & 6th.

Polish Parish and Cultural Center, 3424 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angles, CA 90018

Saturday: 12noon to 9PM, Sunday: 12noon to 7PM.

Free admission. Free parking. All ages.

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POLISH FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 

will present a surprise interactive booth during Polish Festival in Adams.

on Saturday, October 5th (12 PM to11 PM). 

You will be able to sign up to our mailing list and also receive an invitation to 

 the Gala Award Ceremony at the El Portal Theatre on Noveber 7th. 

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There will be extra entertainment + giveaway of precious PFFLA possessions. 

Polish food, beer, music, crafts, 

live performances, contests, sweets, deli and most importantly great Polish people & PFFLA!

A true festival to be enjoyed by all of us!

Film festival info: (562) 682-9735, www.PFFLA.org

 

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PFFLA NEWS FLASH ( IV )

September 7th, 2024

 

Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will be at Polish Harvest Festival in Yorba Linda

Saturday and Sunday, September 21st & 22nd

Polish Parish and Cultural Center, 3999 Rose Dr., Yorba Linda, CA 92886.

Saturday 12PM - 11PM, Sunday: 10:30AM - 4PM

Free admission. Free parking. All ages.

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POLISH FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 

will present a surprise interactive booth during Polish Harvest Festival

 at Yorba Linda on Saturday, September 21st (12 PM to11 PM). 

You will be able to sign up to our mailing list and also receive an invitation to 

 the Gala Award Ceremony at the El Portal Theatre on Noveber 7th. 

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There will be extra entertainment + giveaway of precious PFFLA possessions. 

Look for us near the main stage of the festival. Polish food, beer, music, crafts, 

live performances, contests, sweets, deli and most importantly great Polish people & PFFLA!

A true festival to be enjoyed by all of us!

Harvest festival Info: (714) 996-8161

Film festival info: (562) 682-9735, www.PFFLA.org

 


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PFFLA NEWS FLASH ( III )

September 5th, 2024

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Sunday, October 20th, 2024, 12:00PM,

PFFLA Volunteer Meeting

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Everyone is welcome to join!

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Friday, August 16th, 8:00PM, 

PFFLA Screening Room, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

 

HERITAGE (Spadek)

Director: Jakub Laskowski

Cast: Michal Kaleta, Andrzej Konopka, Maciej Musialowski

Runtime: 75 minutes

Film is screened with English subtitles

Free admission, Polish snacks and beers will be available.

Janek, a graphic designer from a big city, is summoned to the opening of the last will of a complete stranger. Eager to learn the history of his family, he and his younger sister drive to a small town. Unexpectedly, Janek receives a house by a lake, but he's not the only one who claims the right to the property. Janek's acceptance sets off an avalanche of disastrous events that throw his organised life out of kilter.

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Friday, August 9th, 8:00PM, 

PFFLA Screening Room, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

 

 

PHENOMENON (Fenomen) 

Director: Małgorzata Kowalczyk

Cast:  Jerzy Owsiak, Agata Mlynarska

Music: Szymon Nidzworski

Runtime: 95 minutes

Film is screened with English subtitles

Free admission, Polish snacks and beers will be available.

In the early 1990s, in crisis-stricken Poland, a controversial TV star Jurek Owsiak responds to the plea of two doctors. They desperately need money for medical equipment. Owsiak starts a fundraiser and, consequently, creates the largest charity organization in the country, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Over the next two decades, the Orchestra grows stronger with Polish democracy, mixing charity with rock music and a hippie ethos. Przystanek Woodstock, an event that is intended to be a free music festival for Orchestra volunteers, has become the largest free festival in Europe, celebrating the ideals of rock'n'roll.

"Phenomenon" is an intimate portrait of Owsiak. We see him as he transforms from a carefree hippie into a symbol of charity, unaware that he will inadvertently place himself in the centre of a brutal political conflict. In 2019, Paweł Adamowicz, the president of Gdańsk, dies during the annual final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.

Utopian vision based on music, love and friendship clashes with a new era ruled by internet hate. The resulting tragedy is a huge blow to the very heart of Owsiak's idealism. We witness how he and his Orchestra cope with this challenge.

 

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2024 PFFLA poster unveiling ceremony

 

Friday, August 9th at 7:00 PM 

at PFFLA Screening Room, 

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802.

Champagne, cheesecake and sweets will be served. 

The auction of the first print will be conducted for everyone 

who would wish to participate.

 

This is a free of charge event.

 

 

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Sunday, July 27th, 8:00PM, 

PFFLA Screening Room, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach 

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Screening of

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BIG LITTLE WORDS by Mariusz Brozek

recipient of Hollywood Eagle Award for the Best Short Film of 2023

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PINEAPPLE PIZZA by Dorian Czapla

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STAGNANT by Konrad Kultys

recipient of Bridging the Borders Award of 2023

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BIG LITTLE WORDS (Duże słówka )

Director: Mariusz Brozek

Cast:  Szymon Bandyk, Artur Drewnowski, Iga Górecka

Music/Sound: Bartosz Grzybowski, Max Kubis, Michal Wroblewski

Runtime: 13 minutes

 

The main heroine, Suzie, is fed up with a male voice-over

telling her what to do and deciding about her story. She fires

the narrator, so no one disturbs her free will. She is a young,

educated, and independent woman. But freedom comes with

responsibility and it turns out that it's not that easy to decide

on one's story. The first moments of freedom are pure

pleasure, but can quickly turn into a bad hangover with a

severe headache. Isolation and breakup between the two

genders bring Suzie and the narrator pain, but also a new

perspective.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PINEAPPLE PIZZA

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Director: Dorian Czapla

Runtime: 4 minutes

 

A group of friends orders pizza for dinner, but when one of them orders pizza with pineapple they start arguing whether it is acceptable or not.  

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STAGNANT

Director: Konrad Kultys

Cast:  Igor Kowalunas, Mateusz Czwartosz, Izabella Dudziak

Music: Brunon Lubas

Runtime: 18 minutes

 

Tough skinhead Adam ignores his disability, depite it he tries to dominate his loved ones.

A decision by his caring brother to change jobs pushes Adam to reconsider his situation and and face up to his own limitations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday, July 21st, 2024, 5:30PM,

Board of Directors and Volunteer Meeting

PFFLA, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

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Friday, July 13th, 2024, 8:00 PM.

PFFLA screening room

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

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Screening of DAY AND NIGHT (Dzień i noc)

Directors: Katarzyna Machalek, Lukasz Machowski

Cast:  Martyna Bazychowska, Aleksandra Galczynska, Katarzyna Janiszewska

Music: Nascuy Linares

Runtime: 89 minutes

 

Nawoja, a tormented witch, buries the head of a dead animal under the barn, casting a curse on the perfect life of her neighbor Bielakowa. Young Bielakowa organizes a rehearsal of an all-female folk band in her house, even though she feels that evil forces are creeping into her world. A friendship develops between the band members. Before the day is over, the girls will have to face the curse of Nawoja. They meet again a few decades later for another rehearsal - older, wiser, but still a tight-knit and spirited group. An elderly woman is visited by the memories of a friend she had in her youth. The two young girls were inseparable, like one soul inhabiting two bodies. Her memories, falling into place like pieces of a puzzle, conjure a story of women's hard fates: failed marriages, unkept promises, dashed hopes and dreams.

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Saturday, June 22nd, 2024, 8:00 PM.

PFFLA screening room

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

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Screening of EVERYTHING IS FINE (Wszystko w porzą dku)

Director: Piotr Matyja

Cast:  Stanislaw Linowski, Aleksandra Skraba, Mikolaj Kubacki

Music: Pawel Sikora, Lukasz Utko

Runtime: 24 minutes

 

After waking up in the forest with no recollection, a young man seeks to find out what happened only to discover an uncomfortable truth about himself.

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Saturday, June 1st, 2024, 8:30 PM.

PFFLA screening room

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

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Screening of HELA

Director: Anna Maria Kasperska

Cast:  Marta Starmielska, Martyna Zozula, Bogdan Lachendrowicz

Music: Monika Szpyrka

Runtime: 84 minutes

 

When teenage trouble maker orphan Hela learns that her 5 years old sister has been adopted, she decides to run away from the reformatory with hope to find her sibling.

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Saturday, May 18th, 2024, 8:00 PM.

PFFLA screening room

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach

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Screening of INA BENITA. TWO LIVES (Ina Benita. Dwa ż ycia)

Director: Jacek Papis

Cast:  Ina Benita, Piotr Gacek, Janina Hera

Music: Piotr Leniewicz , Jacek Papis

Runtime: 72 minutes

 

Incredible story of Ina Benita, one of the most enigmatic figures of Polish cinema of the 1930s. She was a star whose chances of a great international career were buried by a war. For years her fate was shrouded in mystery. Throughout the post-war period the legend was that she died in the sewers during the Warsaw Uprising. It was only in 2019 that a young journalist, Marek Teler, discovered that she had actually died in Pennsylvania in 1980s. What did she do during the war? Why was she infamous? Why did she never tell her American family who she had been before the war? This documentary film attempts to unravel the amazing story of this extraordinary actress.

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Sunday, May 5th, 2024, 4:00 PM,

Board of Directors and Volunteer Meeting

PFFLA, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

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Polish Film Festival Los AngelesTM

117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA

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www.PFFLA.org Tel (USA): 562.682-9735  Director@PFFLA.org