Name: Movies presented by natives Spanish
Start: 2026-03-26T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-26T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Kawiarnia Literacka

This time we will screen movie of the most famous Spanish director: Pedro Almodovar!
Film will be presented by Sara.
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
This film begins with tragedy but gradually transforms into something unexpectedly luminous. It is a story about loss, but also about resilience, chosen families, and the extraordinary emotional strength of women. Through vivid characters and theatrical intensity, Almodóvar turns melodrama into something deeply human and compassionate.
Critics often describe the film as the director’s most emotionally powerful work. One reviewer in The Guardian called it:
“his finest film to date.”
What makes the film unforgettable is the empathy with which it portrays its characters. The narrative moves between grief, humor, and tenderness, creating a rich portrait of people reinventing themselves after loss.
Almodóvar himself once explained the idea behind the film’s world of unconventional families:
“The most important thing is that the members of the family love each other.”
In the end, All About My Mother becomes more than a drama about motherhood. It is a celebration of identity, performance, and the courage to rebuild life — even after it seems to have been shattered.
Paweł
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Organizational info:
We are going to meet in one of those three places please check ideally during the day of the meeting if the location of the event didn't change.
1. Cafe literacka - located in the bookstore, ask bar attender where the movie room is located. They have great cakes and salads, ok beer and sinfully cheap table wine.
2. Poli - great and cheap multitap craft beer bar with food and cocktails
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Paweł is a local city, cultural and food tour guide in Kraków since 2007. Initially his knowledge about Polish films was average. But then when he discover how usefull movies are as educational tools to talk about Poland things have changed. He started to focus more on the important movies about Polish history. Then one day in November 2015 he decided to share it not only during his work as a proffesional tour guide, but also to Couchsurfing community and all culturally hungry people, this time totally for free. Since that day in 2015 Paweł joined academy of Polish films academy, attended as many lectures as possible. Constantly reads about Polish cinema and developed his true passion. At one point Paweł did even screen several Polish low-budget productions inviting people who were involved in production. But it was difficult to find movies like that regularly. If you would like to screen yours movie or movie of your friend, let me know! When after almost 90 years Poland finally got first Oscar, (We have only one small category - foreign language film) Paweł organized screening of "Ida" in cinema twice. In his opinion English subtitles well very much cenzored which ... is the key reason why this movie get oscar. Nevertheless first Paweł's impression about the event was terrible. 60 people in the hall, for many of them it was the first Polish film they will ever see, at least half of them eating chips making huge noice with their plastic packages, one person even open yoghurt, take the spoon and start to eat regular supper... Paweł though that that will be huge failer, those people probably expect an easy entertainment, American style shallow action or comedy film, but... At the end of the screening there was about 2 minutes of total silence... and then huge applause after. Paweł thinks that something very important happened that night and those emotions related made this project very valuable! Each movie is followed by Pawel's or his friend introduction. Sometimes they also screen very rare and almost impossible to find online interviews with director. Off course all materials are with English subtitles. Sometimes screening of the movie is connected with the tour in the museum or around the city if the topic is related. Integration in English & Party
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