POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN AMERICA FAREWELL SCREENINGS

After nearly thirty-five years The Polish Film Festival in America winds up its activity. The world’s largest annual Polish cultural event beyond Poland and the most extensive yearly program of a promotion of Polish cinema outside of Poland was established in Chicago upon the fall of communism in Poland by Christopher Kamyszew and a group of his friends. Within the PFFA programs over 2,000 movies have been showed – feature, documentary and animated ones; almost 800 artists of film and industry professionals of Polish descent from all over the globe met the Chicago festival audiences.