Film Screening- EDINBURGH- Solaris Mon Amour- dir. Kuba Mikurda + Q&A

Sun, 05 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm UTC+01:00

Southside Community Centre | Edinburgh

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Film Screening- EDINBURGH- Solaris Mon Amour-  dir. Kuba Mikurda + Q&A
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Presented by Borscht Film Club:
Solaris Mon Amour
A poetic found footage essay inspired by Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
Poland 2023, 47 min
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Followed by an online Q&A with director Kuba Mikurda
Date: Sunday, 5th October 2025
Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Southside Community Centre
117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER
Tickets: Pay What You Can (£2–£12), including free options:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/beetroots-collective-cic/t-rpeeydm
Borscht Film Club, presenting the finest Polish cinema in Glasgow and Edinburgh, invites you to a special screening of Solaris Mon Amour a hypnotic archival essay film that reimagine found footage as a medium of emotional and ideological resistance.
Solaris Mon Amour, directed by Kuba Mikurda, is a poetic meditation on grief and memory, inspired by Stanisław Lem’s philosophical sci-fi novel Solaris. Constructed from over 70 educational films and radio adaptations from the 1960s, the film dissolves boundaries between fiction, documentary, and personal reflection. Rather than retelling Lem’s story, it evokes its emotional undercurrents: the impossibility of closure, the persistence of memory, and the haunting presence of the past. Visual textures and sonic layers intertwine to create a trance-like atmosphere of cosmic longing and psychological depth.

This film presents a commitment to reworking archival materials into poetic, emotionally resonant essays. It challenge dominant narratives and invite viewers to reflect on how memory, ideology, and representation shape our inner lives. This offers a unique opportunity to experience of visionary approach to found footage cinema.
Curated by: Agnieszka Koperniak-Kerr
Guest of the screening: Kuba Mikurda (online)
Content notes: Archival footage with variable image/sound quality; themes include grief, trauma, and ideological critique.
Solaris Mon Amour
Poland, 2023, 47 min
Language: Polish, with English subtitles
Directed by: Kuba Mikurda
Edited by: visual artist Laura Pawela
Music and Sound Design: experimental composer Marcin Lenarczyk (djLenar)
A film by: Kuba Mikurda, Laura Pawela & djLenar
Produced by: Krzysztof Franek, Krzysztof Pijarski
7Creative Producers: Dagna Kidoń, Stanisław Liguziński, Michał Matuszewski
Production: The Film School in Łódź / vnLab, Educational Film Studio, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Premiera brytyjska: Solaris Mon Amour w reżyserii Kuby Mikurdy
Po pokazie odbędzie się spotkanie online z reżyserem Solaris Mon Amour, Kubą Mikurdą
Pokaz: niedziela, 5października o godz. 17:30
Bilety w formule „zapłać ile możesz” (£2–12):
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/beetroots-collective-cic/t-rpeeydm

Przestrzeń dostępna dla osób na wózkach
Film w języku polskim z angielskimi napisami
VENUE: Southside Community Centre,
117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER

Borscht Film Club zaprasza na hipnotyzujący pokaz archiwalnego filmu eseistycznego, który przekształca materiały found footage w narzędzie emocjonalnego i ideologicznego oporu.
Solaris Mon Amour to poetycka medytacja nad żałobą i pamięcią, inspirowana filozoficzną powieścią science fiction Stanisława Lema Solaris. Film zbudowany jest z ponad 70 edukacyjnych produkcji filmowych i adaptacji radiowych z lat 60., przekraczając granice między fikcją, dokumentem a osobistą refleksją. To transowa podróż przez kosmiczną tęsknotę i psychologiczną głębię.

⁶To nasza druga premiera brytyjska!
Kurator: Agnieszka Koperniak-Kerr
Wspierane przez Film Hub Scotland (BFI Film Audience Network), Screen Scotland, National Lottery i Local Cinema
Część Beetroots Collective — promującego kulturę Europy Wschodniej w Szkocji
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