Festival of Brands. A Film Festival on the Famous Avenue!

Film Meetings in the Pionier Cinema will add brilliance this year’s Festival of Brands on Wojska Polskiego Avenue. The programme of the Meetings features numerous attractions. The audience will see films related to Szczecin and remakes of popular productions. There will also be multimedia screenings, remarkable screenings with a silent film pianist and meetings with artists, hosted by Tomasz Raczek, a well-known film critic. You can already be purchase tickets for all meetings.

This year’s programme of the Festival of Brands has numerous interesting points. The highlight will be Film Meetings in the Pionier Cinema, which start on Friday, 17 September, and last until Sunday, 19 September.

“The review programme is diverse; it includes films referring to our city, remakes of famous productions, as well as films raising important and current issues,” said Tomasz Klek, the Spokesman of the Famous Avenue project. “There will be meetings with directors and actors, words, film and music shows and remarkable screenings with a silent film pianist, which are always popular.”

“Films included in the programme of the Meetings do not appear on the big screen very often. Therefore, this is a unique opportunity to see them with us,” said Jerzy Miśkiewicz from the Pionier Cinema. “For me, screenings with a silent film pianist are the most valuable. Even if the film is mediocre, but the silent film pianist can improvise, then it becomes a marvel! And at the Meetings, the silent film pianist will be really great! We have done screenings with a pianist before and we had viewers from all over the voivodeship, even families with children, and the hall was always full.

Film Meetings in the Pionier Cinema – programme

Red Hall

Friday, 17 September

04:00 p.m._ Młode wilki (young wolves), dir. by J. Żamojda, 1995
06:00 p.m._ Młode wilki 1/2, dir. by J. Żamojda, 1995

Saturday, 18 September

01:30 p.m._ Perfect Strangers, P. Genovese, 2016
03:40 p.m._ (Nie)znajomi ((No)strangers), dir. by Tadeusz Śliwka, 2019
06:00 p.m._ Lekcja miłości (Love lesson), dir. by Małgorzata Goliszewska and Kasia Mateja / production: Anna Stylińska / Widok/ 2019
07:15 p.m._ after the screening there will be a meeting with the director Małgorzata Goliszewska and actors from the film. Host: Tomasz Raczek
08:30 p.m._ A screening of the 1925 film Phantom Of The Opera – the first adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel. The screening will be accompanied by contemporary performative music performed live by Krzysztof Baranowski. Mariusz Saniternik, an excellent theatre and film actor, will be the narrator.
10:00 p.m._ After the event, there will be a meeting with Mariusz Saniternik and Krzysztof Baranowski. Host: Tomasz Raczek.

Sunday, 19 September

03:00 p.m._ Ławeczka (Bench), dir. by M. Żak, 2004
05:00 p.m._ Cała naprzód (Full spead ahead), dir. S. Lenartowicz, 1996

Kiniarnia Club:

Friday, 17 September

08:00 p.m._ Screening of the silent film with a pianist – Sherlock Jr. _ Buster Keaton, 1924. Liliana Kostrzewa as the silent film pianist

Sunday, 19 September

12:00 p.m._ Screening of the silent film with a pianist – The Kid Charlie Chaplin, 1921. Liliana Kostrzewa as the silent film pianist

You can purchase tickets priced at PLN 15 and PLN 30 via bilety.fm website and at the bilety.fm outlet at the Pomeranian Dukes Castle (entrance “i” on the small courtyard). The outlet is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00.

In addition to the Film Meetings, other equally interesting attractions will be available for visitors on Wojska Polskiego Avenue during this time. In five zones, between 11:00 and 18:00, various events featuring the Brands will take place. As part of the Festival of Brands, an outdoor game called “Find them all” will also take place. Its participants look for signs by solving riddles and taking photos. There will be prizes waiting for the players. During the Festival, there will be attractive discounts and special offers available in the Famous Brands locations.

Brands involved in the Famous Avenue project: the Pionier Cinema, Pasztecik Bar, Ewa and Henryk Sawka Gallery, fashion studio Sylwia Majdan, Piccolo pizzeria, Seamor fish bistro, Cukiernia Koch, mTłumaczenia translation agency and Optyk Secret optician’s salon.

The Famous Avenue Project is implemented by the City of Szczecin, Żegluga Szczecińska Turystyka Wydarzenia, Szczecińska Agencja Turystyczna. The partners of the event are: Szczeciński Fundusz Pożyczkowy, Szczecińskie TBS, Szczecińska Energetyka Cieplna.