We would like to invite you to the artist talk and screening of the film 'Emily Cries' by acclaimed film director Rafal Kapelinski. This thirty minute film was played at 24 international festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and was awarded six prestigious film awards, amongst others the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2007) and Brest International Short Film Festival (2007). The film received praising reviews in magazines such as Cinema, Kino and Gazeta Wyborcza.

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2008
Please arrive at 7pm for a sharp start of the film at 7.30pm

Synopsis: EMILY CRIES / EMILKA PLACZE (Poland, UK 2006, fiction, 33'

Katowice, Poland, 1982. The communist government has imposed Martial Law to crush the Solidarity movement. Against this backdrop, a teenager falls in love for the first time.

Rafal Kapelinski about his film 'Emily Cries':
"I’ve made this film to have my say about Martial Law in Poland. My memories from those days are very vivid, and I will always associate that time with humiliation and suffering. Emily Cries is my personal statement over what happened then and an expression of my grief that my generation had to grow up during such a difficult time. The film is also about first real love and the fact that it is always great to be in love regardless of politics.

Selected reviews

Agnieszka Klos, Cinema
'...Emily Cries charmed the jury from the opening sequence. It was the most mature, the most thoughtful film of the entire festival. Kapelinski’s debut overwhelms with the precion of documentary-like cinematography, a great cast and a fantastic episode by Rafal Mohr'.

Tadeusz Sobolewski, Gazeta Wyborcza.
'The different point of view made Emily Cries stand out in the independent competiton of the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia in 2006'.

Andrzej Kolodynski, Kino.
'...Emily Cries is the best Polish film that tells of those days'.

Artur Cichminski, Stopklatka.
'...His (Rafal Kapelinski) Emily Cries is almost perfect. Althogh the film is only thirty minutes long, one had the impression of watching a fully-realized feature. If we also consider the strong acting, the award at the Polish Film Fetival in Gdynia in 2006 appears very well-deserved'.