High Noon

From Festival Tuesday to Thursday – at noon – let’s meet at the Gdynia City Museum to talk about the extraordinary history of the Polish Film Festival!

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the PFF, we invite you to a series of open meetings titled High Noon, hosted by Dr Anna Wróblewska (Łódź Film School), an archivist and historian of the PFF. What key events, symbols, and turning points have shaped the history of the Festival?

Each day, the audience will watch fragments of Sebastian Szewczykowski’s documentary Stoczniowcy witają filmowców. Festiwal, jakiego nie było – now in production.

The Gdańsk editions of the Polish Film Festival went down in history as an almost mythical period. Supported by the Gdańsk Cultural Scholarship Creative Fund, the documentary features the winners of the Gdańsk editions and renowned film critics.

Sebastian Szewczykowski (b. 1991) is a Gdańsk-born filmmaker, from a family that has lived in the city for three generations, and a directing graduate of the Gdynia Film School. He also holds degrees in practical film studies and psychology from the University of Gdańsk.