Andrzej Wajda Centennial
Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda—one of the most influential figures in Polish and world cinema, whose work and public engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences. Having gained global recognition with films such as Kanał, Ashes and Diamonds, and The Promised Land, Wajda remained actively involved in cultural and educational initiatives throughout his life.
A constant thread in Wajda’s incredibly varied filmography is the exploration of the history of his homeland, narrativizing how individuals and identities are shaped within wartime experience, propaganda, repression, and moments of resistance and political transformation of a nation. His defiant outlook was also matched with a poetic sensibility, powerful visual language and a mastery of narrative, and his films are as moving and inspiring as they are provocative and influential.
Wajda’s impact expand beyond Poland to influence filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and he was awarded an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2000. As part of the North American tour of the 29-film retrospective of his work available only in 2026, this 11-film series from across his more than six-decade career brings together his most known and celebrated work with those deserving to be discovered, many in brand new 4K restorations, highlighting the diversity of his oeuvre.
Kanal
- Sun, Jul 5
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1957 Language: Polish
Starring: Stanisław Mikulski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Tadeusz Janczar, Teresa Iżewska, Wieńczysław Gliński
The Claustrophobic Nightmare of War
Ashes and Diamonds
- Sun, Jul 5
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 103 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1958 Language: Polish
Starring: Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Zbigniew Cybulski
Touched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers
Innocent Sorcerers
- Sun, Jul 12
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1960 Language: Polish
Starring: Kalina Jędrusik, Krystyna Stypułkowska, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Wanda Koczeska, Zbigniew Cybulski
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who...
Love at Twenty
- Sun, Jul 12
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Director: Andrzej Wajda, François Truffaut, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini, Shintarō Ishihara Run Time: 120 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1962 Language: French
Starring: François Darbon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
The Intimate Secrets of Young Lovers
The Promised Land
- Sun, Jul 19
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 179 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1975 Language: Polish
Starring: Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka, Daniel Olbrychski, Kalina Jędrusik, Wojciech Pszoniak
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in...
Man of Marble
- Sun, Jul 26
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 153 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1977 Language: Polish
Starring: Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Michał Tarkowski, Tadeusz Łomnicki
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became...
Without Anesthesia
- Sun, Jul 26
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 131 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1978 Language: Polish
Starring: Andrzej Seweryn, Ewa Dałkowska, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and...
Man of Iron
- Sun, Aug 2
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 147 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1981 Language: Polish
Starring: Irena Byrska, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wiesława Kosmalska
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt...
Danton
- Sun, Aug 2
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 136 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1983 Language: French
Starring: Angela Winkler, Gérard Depardieu, Patrice Chéreau, Roland Blanche, Wojciech Pszoniak
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was...
The Possessed
- Sun, Aug 9
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 116 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1988 Language: French
Starring: Bernard Blier, Isabelle Huppert, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Lambert Wilson, Omar Sharif
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their...
Korczak
- Sun, Aug 9
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Director: Andrzej Wajda Run Time: 115 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1990 Language: Polish
Starring: Ewa Dałkowska, Marzena Trybała, Piotr Kozłowski, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.