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Cinema version of Part 5 of Kieslowski’s TV series Dekalog about the Ten Commandments. Layabout Jacek breaks the fifth commandment, 'thou shalt not kill', by killing a cab driver. Kieslowski makes you wonder whether Jacek’s death sentence is as pointless as the killing itself.

Jacek, a young Pole in Warsaw hails a cab and gets in. Not long after, he kills the driver Waldemar for no apparent reason. What motivated Jacek is unclear, he might not even have a motive.

A Short Film About Killing

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Filip, a factory worker, buys an 8mm camera and films the birth of his daughter. He soon becomes addicted to the magic of film, which has consequences for his family. Amator represents Kieslowski’s international breakthrough, a year before the Solidarity strikes in Gdansk.

At the close of the 1970s, Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) had made a name for himself as a documentary filmmaker and director of short dramas for Polish TV. The Warsaw-born filmmaker sought to portray post-war Poland as accurately as possible within the constraints imposed by the censors. To avoid conflict with the Communist party Kieslowski developed a film style that was both concrete and poetic.

His successful films La double vie de Véronique as well as his Trois couleurs trilogy featuring French stars Irène Jacob, Juliette Binoche and Julie Delpy revolve around kinship, identity and coincidence.

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What if a pretty sensitive 19-year-old postal worker develops a burning love for his seductive neighbour, a promiscuous woman in her thirties? Feature-length version of the sixth episode in Kieslowski’s Dekalog TV series explores the difference between love and sex, being together and being lonely.

Tomek keeps tabs on everything Magda does; he buys a telescope and watches from the window as she engages in colourful erotic adventures with a succession of short-term lovers.

A Short Film About Love

Five early shorts by Kieślowski, full of his characteristic black humour, criticism of the authorities and odes to lonely, nameless individuals. Preceded by Preisner piano music played by Guy van Nueten and followed by a conversation with Kieślowski’s regular translator and interpreter.

Five short films by Kieślowski: the first two are fiction films he made at the famous film academy in Łódź, the next three are short documentaries. To open, pianist Guy van Nueten will play a piece by Preisner and a piece inspired by Kieślowski. Afterwards, Eye programmer of the future Korée Wilrycx will talk to Kieślowski expert Benjamin Gijzel, Kieślowski’s regular translator and interpreter.Guy Van Nueten Composer and pianist Guy Van Nueten enjoys a solid reputation in Belgium. He is active as a session musician, solo pianist and composer for theatre plays, dance performances and films. As of 2018, Guy composed music for 22 stage productions, 8 feature films, released 8 albums and is credited over 100 times on different albums as a keyboardplayer, arranger, composer or producer. His style has an urge towards purity and is influenced by baroque, pop music and electronic music. Guy is releasing an anthology of 20 years of composition assignments later this year.Benjamin Gijzel Benjamin Gijzel left for Warsaw in 1973 to get to know life behind the iron curtain and to graduate on spatial planning in 30 years of the Polish People's Republic. He experienced how party leader Gierek threw open the borders to the West and saw that a lot was possible in film and theatre. Important films - they were labeled as ''the cinema of moral concern/disquiet'' - came to the Netherlands. In 1980 he studied directing at the theater academy in Warsaw and witnessed the rise of Lech Walesa and the beginnings of Solidarnosc. Back in the Netherlands, he became the interpreter for the Polish filmmakers who came to the festival in Rotterdam and subtitled their films. He continued to work with Kieslowski after that, most recently with the master class for international filmmakers (1994), which Kieslowski gave in Amsterdam shortly before his death in 1996.

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Amator

Krzysztof Kieslowski / PL, 1979 / 112 min.

Filip, a factory worker, buys an 8mm camera and films the birth of his daughter. He soon becomes addicted to the magic of film, which has consequences for his family. Amator represents Kieslowski’s international breakthrough, a year before the Solidarity strikes in Gdansk.

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