| Wajda Retrospective in Berlin |
| 02 December 2011 | By FNE Staff |
 The Wajda School (www.wajdaschool.pl) continues its celebration of the 10th aniversary of its founding with a 28 film survey of the films of Poland's master director Andrzej Wajda and his students, "Andrej Wajda - Known and Unknown." The retrospective runs through 18 December 2011 in Berlin.
The films to be screened include : "Generation",
"Everything for Sale", "Canal", "Korczak",
"Samson", "Promised Land", "Katyn", "Hunting
Flies", "Ashes", "Ashes and Diamonds", "Innocent
Sorcerers", "Landscape After Battle", "Layer Cake",
"The Maids of Wilko", "Man of Marble", "Man of
Iron", "Without Anesthesia", "Lotna", "Wedding",
"Birch Wood", "Love in Germany", "Holy Week",
"Nastasya", "Revenge", "Pan Tadeusz", "Danton",
"Sweet Rush" and "Rring With A Crowned Eagle", and the documentary by Marcel Łoziński entitled "The
Katyn Forest", which was inspired by Andrzej Wajda. Berlin audiences will also have the opportunity to learn more about the activities of Wajda as co-founder (together with Wojciech Marczewski) of the film school in Warsaw, which has been supporting new generations of filmmakers for the past 10 years, and see a selection of the best feature films, documentaries, and short films that came from the School. The guests of the retrospective will be actor Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and directors who are graduates of the Wajda School: Piotr Bernaś, Marcin Sauter and Thierry Paladino. Bernaś' documentary "Paparazzi" was nominated for the European Film Academy Award. This year the awards ceremony will be held on 3 December in Berlin. Screenings for the 10th anniversary of the Wajda School: December 4, at 8pm, Hackesche Höfe Cinema / guest Piotr
Bernaś: December 5 at
7.30pm, Arsenal Kino / guest Piotr Bernaś: December 10, at
7.30pm, Arsenal Kino /
guests Marcin Sauter, Thierry Paladino: December 11, at 6pm, Hackesche Höfe Cinema: December 11, at
8pm, Hackesche Höfe
Cinema: December 18, at
7pm, Arsenal Cinema: "Andrzej Wajda - Known & Unknown" is the project of the Polish Institute in Berlin under the auspices of the European Film Academy, in collaboration with the "Arsenal" Institute of Film and Video Arts (Institut für Film und Videokunst), the Wajda School Foundation and the Wajda Studio, the Zeughauskino cinema (at the German Historical Museum), the Hackesche Höfe cinema, the Film Museum in Potsdam, with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the National Film Archive
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