Poland’s submission for the 89th Academy Awards

AFTERIMAGE / POWIDOKI  
by Andrzej Wajda

Wednesday, August 9

8:30 pm

Saturday, August 12

8:30 pm

Tickets

The final film of the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda 
(who passed away in October), "Afterimage" is a
passionate biopic about avant-garde artist
Władyslaw Strzemiński (brilliantly played by
Polish superstar Bogusław Linda), who battled Stalinist
orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance
his progressive ideas about art. More...

AFTERIMAGE / POWIDOKI

Directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2016, 98 min. 

In Polish with English subtitles

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