2024 Madison Polish Film Festival

The 2024 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival will take place on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on two subsequent Sundays – November 10 and November 17. Traditionally, all screenings will be FREE and open to the wider public and local community beyond UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff. All films will be screened with English subtitles.

This year, the selection for the Madison Polish Film Festival includes:

The Secret of Little Rose / Różyczka 2 (dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński, 2023)
Running time: 106 min
Sunday, November 10 at 3 pm
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Room 245 (2nd floor), 308 W Dayton St, Madison

Synopsis: Joanna Warczewska, daughter of an eminent writer, is at the peak of her life. Her thriving political career and family happiness are instantly destroyed by a terrorist attack in which her beloved husband is killed. When fate gives her a new chance in life, another blow hits her. Someone sends her photos and documents undermining her family ties and suggesting that her mother has collaborated with the Security Service in the past.

Watch the trailer for The Secret of Little Rose / Różyczka 2 here:

The Scarborn / Kos (dir. Paweł Maślona, 2023)
Running time: 120 min
Sunday, November 10 at 5:15 pm
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Room 245 (2nd floor), 308 W Dayton St, Madison

Synopsis: Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilizing Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt.

Watch the trailer for The Scarborn / Kos here:

Doppelgänger. Double / Doppelgänger. Sobowtór (dir. Jan Holoubek, 2023)
Running time: 120 min
Sunday, November 17 at 3 pm
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Room 245 (2nd floor), 308 W Dayton St, Madison

Synopsis: Hans and Jan Bitner live on opposite sides of the iron curtain. Hans lives in France, he leads a quiet life. Bitner is a Pole, involved in the fight for a free Poland. Their lives are different, but there is one detail that links them.

Watch the trailer for Doppelgänger. Double / Doppelgänger. Sobowtór here:

Feast of Fire / Święto ognia (dir. Kinga Dębska, 2023)
Running time: 94 min
Sunday, November 17 at 5:30 pm
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Room 245 (2nd floor), 308 W Dayton St, Madison

Synopsis: Two sisters struggle with their own bodies. One, pushed by ambition, seeks the limits of its possibilities, for the other the body is a Pr*son. One believes that ballet will save her from her memories. The other watches the world from her balcony with such attention that she sees and hears more. Their father flees to the only place where he feels he is truly alive. Each of them is dishing out the past and taming the present.

Watch the trailer for Feast of Fire / Święto ognia here:

Event Venue

The Marquee Cinema at Union South, 1308 West Dayton Street, Madison, United States