Join us for a conversation with internationally acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland, hosted by NfP editor-at-large Stanley Bill, as part of the XV Congress of Polish Student Societies in the UK. The discussion examines the role of art in times of crisis.
Notes from Poland is proud to be a media partner of the XV Congress of Polish Student Societies in the UK.
Agnieszka Holland is a film and television director and screenwriter and the current president of the European Film Academy. Her awards and nominations include three Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, and an International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Her works often reflect on political and Polish themes, as well as on issues of faith and mysticism. One of her early films in Poland, Provincial Actors (1979), reflected the informal movement known as the “cinema of moral anxiety”.
Holland graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and then worked as assistant director to Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda. She emigrated to France in 1981, upon the imposition of martial law in Poland. Her acclaimed films include: Angry Harvest (1985); Europa, Europa (1990); The Secret Garden (1993); In Darkness (2011); and Mr Jones (2019).
Podcast Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
Main image credit: Martin Kraft/Wikimedia Commons (under CC BY 3.0)
Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Professor of Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He has spent more than ten years living in Poland, mostly based in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała.
He is the Chair of the Board of the Notes from Poland Foundation.
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