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Film festival celebrates Poland’s anti-communist resistance heroes

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Grzegorz Siwicki 27.09.2017 16:20
A documentary film festival celebrating Poland’s postwar anti-communist resistance fighters opened in the northern city of Gdynia on Wednesday.
The Gdynia Film Centre, the festival's main venue. Photo: PAP/Jan DzbanThe Gdynia Film Centre, the festival's main venue. Photo: PAP/Jan Dzban

The annual “Defiant, Unvanquished, Enduring” Film Festival, now in its ninth year, is inspired by the history of the country’s struggle for freedom from 1939 to 1989.

Many members of Poland’s wartime underground Home Army (AK), a force loyal to the Polish government-in-exile in London, fell victim to a wave of terror when Poland found itself under Soviet control after World War II. Many were vilified as enemies of the state, killed and buried secretly in unnamed graves.

Thirty documentaries have been entered for the festival’s main competition and are vying for the “Golden Resistor” award.

Twelve productions, including reportage pieces by Polish Radio journalists, are in the running for an award for best radio documentary.

Apart from the main competition, the festival includes concerts, panel discussions, history projects and meetings with eyewitnesses of historical events.

The motto of this year’s festival is "a free Poland in a free world."

The results of a culture ministry competition for a script for a full-length feature film about Polish history are expected to be announced during the festival.

Polish Radio is a media partner of the event, which runs until Saturday. (gs)

Source: IAR

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