The FILMATURA.HAS 2025 Literary Film Festival will take place from 29, September to 5, October at the LUNA Cinema in Warsaw. The event is organized by the What’s Your Story? Film Foundation.

The second edition of the FILMATURA Literary Film Festival will be devoted to one of the most important filmmakers in Poland – Wojciech Jerzy Has, in the Year of Has established by the School Senate on the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his death.

The FILMATURA Festival is a place for dialogue between the worlds of film and literature. This idea is based on the belief that these two art forms benefit from their mutual interpenetration. Literature, through film, can achieve its visual fulfillment, while film, by drawing on literature, has the opportunity to deepen its understanding, thus avoiding banality. Numerous positive examples of this collaboration can be found in Polish and international cinema.

During this year's festival, the organizers want to focus specifically on the connections between Has's work and literature, which has practically always been the starting point for his creative explorations in feature films. Has drew on works by a wide variety of authors, always choosing texts which allowed him to introduce his own cinematic language. We will also examine contemporary echoes of the director's work.

Screenings of all 14 of Has's feature films, 13 of which are based on literature (an incredibly diverse range), will be accompanied by discussions with those who worked with the director, as well as film and literary scholars. We will also show Has's short films and documentaries, as well as selected films by his students.

Special events during the festival include:

- a discussion panel entitled "An Alternative History of Cinema, or Has's Unmade Films,"
- meetings with Has's students in the context of screenings of short films created under his artistic supervision, the so-called "Hasówki,"
- workshops for young people based on selected films by Has, organized in conjunction with the Andrzej Wajda Film Culture Centre.

The pre-festival events, organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature and its branch, the Władysław Broniewski Museum, which have already taken place and introduce the festival are the following:

- a performative reading of one of Has's unrealized film projects, "Czerwone tarcze," based on the novel by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, which featured Magdalena Czerwińska, Sławomir Orzechowski, Wojciech Żołądkowicz, Sebastian Ryś, and Dawid Ptak, was adapted for the reading and directed by Aleksander Zalewski;

- a concert with jazz arrangements of music from Has's films, arranged by Antoni Wojnar's band: Antoni Wojnar (drums, piano), Marcin Elszkowski (trumpet), Arek Czernysz (accordion) and Franciszek Pospieszalski (double bass).

Detailed information about these events and the upcoming Festival can be found on the Foundation's website: www.fundacjawys.pl,
under the FILMATURA 2025 tab,
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The Festival is co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature. The Festival is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. Festival partners include the Luna Cinema, the Andrzej Wajda Film Culture Centre, the INDEKS Film Studio, the Lodz Film School, the KONDRAT Law Firm, the Stained Glass Museum in Krakow, the Documentary and Feature Film Studio in Warsaw, the 35mm.online portal, and the Polish Writers' Association.

The media patron of the Festival is: Business Centre Club.

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