We are beginning to present the programme for this year’s Tramway Film Festival!

Cine Polaco is a review of selected polish films. This is a non-competitive section.

Solaris Mon Amour | Kuba Mikurda | Poland | 2023 | 47’

Q&A with Kuba Mikurda

A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 educational films and radio adaptations of „Solaris” from the 1960s.

An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris”. A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of “Solaris”.

Lem begins writing “Solaris” the same year that Resnais’ “Hiroshima Mon Amour” is released – says Kuba Mikurda – Like Resnais’ film, I find “Solaris” a fascinating study of post-traumatic memory – repressed memories that pave their way into consciousness and demand to be expressed.