Never Gonna Snow Again

Featuring the works of Poland’s leading creatives, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will present the fourth edition of Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema, bringing together the best new works from Poland’s boundary-pushing filmmakers, from April 30 to May 6, 2021.

Never Gonna Snow Again Trailer: 

The series is presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and co-programmed by Tomek Smolarski. Kino Polska features seven feature films, including the New York premiere of Poland’s Oscar submission Never Gonna Snow Again  (2020). Director Malgorzata Szumowska (whose Berlinale prize winner Mug screened in the 2018 iteration of Kino Polska) partners with longtime cinematographer and co-writer Michal Englert’s for this Venice Film Festival hit about an enigmatic healer (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things) who casts a spell over a rich Polish community. This year’s series also includes Mariko Bobrik’s touching debut feature The Taste of Pho  (2019) about a Vietnamese father and daughter dealing with grief and the immigrant experience in Warsaw; the bittersweet coming-of-age drama I Never Cry (2020) from Piotr Domalewski whose previous film Silent Night won major awards in Poland; Bartosz Kruhlik’s edge-of-your-seat thriller Supernova  (2019); Piotr Adamski’s Eastern (2019), a tale of revenge set in a dystopic Poland; Mariusz Wilczynski’s deeply personal, hand-drawn animated film Kill It And Leave This Town  (2020)—winner of the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and a FIPRESCI Award at the 2020 Viennale; and Agnieszka Holland’s Soviet Union thriller Mr. Jones  (2019) starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard.

All films will screen from April 30th – May 6th on BAM’s virtual streaming platform at BAM.org.
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