Q&A and Interview with film director Paweł Pawlikowski and Adrew Pulver

Описание: To celebrate the recent successes of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida, the winner of this year 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, 13th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival presented a programme of documentary films which commenced Pawlikowski’s career in filmmaking. The video is the recording of a Q&A with The Guardian's film critic Andrew Pulver that took place after the screening on 19 April 2015.

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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.

The four films screened in London's ICA included:

FROM MOSCOW TO PIETUSHKI
From Moscow to Pietushki is a poetic journey into the world of the Russian cult writer Venedikt Yerofeev, as he slowly dies of cancer after 40 years of principled and heroic alcohol consumption. Pawlikowski uses elements of Yerofeev’s cult novel Moscow Pietushki to paint a powerful and complex picture of Russia of the time. The film won an Emmy and Royal Television Society Award among others.

DOSTOEVSKY’S TRAVEL
Dmitri Dostoevsky, Leningrad tram driver and great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, travels to Western Europe following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather’s own journey in 1862. Dmitri hopes his efforts will help him to realise his dream of owning a Mercedes.
SERBIAN EPICS
Highly original and formally constructed film Serbian Epics (1992) was made at the height of the Bosnian war, using the siege of Sarayevo as its central image. It includes close up footage of Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, both later wanted by the international court of justice for war crimes.

This multi-layered, ironic, imagistic and at times almost hypnotic study of myth-making and murder aroused a storm of controversy, including questions in the house of commons, at the time of its broadcast.

TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKY
Tripping with Zhirinovsky is a surreal boat journey down the Volga with the Russian nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his retinue, as he campaigns to win the Russian presidency in 1994. He travels from Moscow to the Caspian Sea, trying to raise the spirits of the impoverished masses assembled at the quayside, promising the re-conquest of Alaska, access to the Indian Ocean and free nylon stockings. The film won the Grierson award for the Best British Documentary in 1995.

Paweł Pawlikowski, born in 1957, is an Oscar-winning Polish/British film director who has lived and worked most of his life in the UK. His films Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004) both won the BAFTA award. His low budget black-and-white drama Ida (2013) won 2015 Oscars Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Film Not In the English Language, and was nominated to 2015 Oscars for Cinematography.

The screenings were supported by DocHouse.