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Listen to the Podcast: Kitchen Conversations with Bartek Tesarz, the director of filmPOLSKA

Bartek Tesarz, a cinephile, film scholar, and film curator, shares his daily routine as the main organiser of the largest festival of Polish cinema outside Poland.

filmPOLSKA is a festival organised yearly by the Polish Institute in Berlin. The 21st edition took place from 9th to 16th of September in various cinemas in Berlin and Potsdam.

In this episode of the podcast, you will receive insider recommendations from the 21st edition of the festival, featuring a unique selection of competition films, as well as a rich retrospective programme devoted to the 2026 cultural patron, Andrzej Wajda.

Film recommendations from the festival and behind-the-scenes of the podcast here: link

Wesele, 1973, film by Andrzej Wajda, film still

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Bartek Tesarz and Patrycja Rozwora (Kitchen Conversations) at the 21st filmPOLSKA festival

About The Author

Artist and writer. Studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Critical Studies Department at the Sandberg Institute. Her ongoing research relates the post-Soviet countries. In 2020, she launched a podcast series called ‘Kitchen Conversations.’