November 8, Sunday
 6:00PM    "Mala Moskwa"
                 drama, 119 min,

Please note:  Director Waldemar Krzystek was scheduled to introduce Sunday's screening of his film, but had to cancel his appearance due to a family emergency.
 
Little Moscow for years has been a name for the Polish town of Legnica, where after 1945 a Soviet garrison and the commandership of the North Group of the USRR Army were stationed for decades after Russians first entered Polish territory. The subject of of two different communities and national traditions that had to exist simultaneously in this city is very close to the director, who grew up in Legnica. In Little Moscow he presents an authentic story of the dramatic relationship between the wife of a Russian pilot and a Polish officer.

 

  



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 October 29, Thursday
 7:00pm     "Jutro idziemy do kina"   (We are Going to See a Movie Tomorrow)
                   drama, director: Michal Kwiecinski, 2007, 85 min.
  
                         "Szklana Pulapka"  (Glass Trap),  short film, 15 min, the winner of The Best European Film Award
                          at the Tampere Short Film Festival in Finland

 October 30, Friday
 7:00PM      "Pora umierac"
                   drama, director: Dorota Kedzierzawska, 2007, 104 min.

 9:00PM      "Rysa"  (Scratch)
                   drama,  director:  Michal Rosa, 2008, 84 min.

                        "Samotność kucharza szybkich zamówien" (The Loneliness of a Short-Order Cook), short film, 24 min
                 
 October 31, Saturday      ~~~ Halloween party at Angelika ~~~
 7:00PM     "Nigdy nie mow nigdy" (Never Say Never)
                  comedy, director: Wojciech Pacyna, 2009, 102 min.

  9:00pm   “U Pana Boga za miedza” (God’s Little Village)
                  comedy, director: Jacek Bromski, 2009, 110 min.
                  Actress Agnieszka Kotlarska will meet the audience

 November 1, Sunday
  6:00PM    "Rezerwat" (Preserve)
                  comedy, director: Lukasz Palkowski, 2007, 100 min.               
                    
                       "The Wanted Woman", short film, 16 min
 
 


 
 November 7, Saturday
 7:00PM    "Sennosc" (Drowsiness)
                 drama, director:  Magdalena Piekorz, 2008, 105 min.
 
Drowsiness can become a permanent state of a human mind, preventing the person suffering from it from doing anything at all. Róza suffers from narcolepsy and had to give up her career as an actor. She lives in a luxurious apartment with her husband, whom she suspects of infidelity. Adam, a young physician, is trying to find his own way in life which would free him from his parent's idea of "a proper son's life". And Robert, a renowned writer, has not been able to find inspiration for his next work. The lives of these three characters meet at one point and they all wake up from their languid half-sleep for a little while. In her second, gripping film, the young director Magdalena Piekorz bets on the attractiveness of "casual" encounters that have the power to change the lives of individual characters. In a strange dreamy atmosphere, she depicts the often frail line between happiness and sadness.

                "The People’s Republic of Poland"  (PRL de Luxe), 2008, short film, 15 min.
 9:00PM    "Ile wazy Kon Trojanski"
                 comedy, director: Juliusz Machulski,  118 minut

The film tells the story of Zosia, who is a happy woman. She Got married for the second time and together with Kuba, an ideal man, they bring up Her daughter from Her first marriage. There is also her ex-husband somewhere around, but nothing can destroy the family happiness. Zosia thinks only about one thing: why she did not meet Kuba earlier? And what would happen if one could go back in time…?

 

  
     

Venue:

Angelika Film Center Houston, 510 Texas Avenue (@ Smith St.) Houston, TX 77002