The ‘Poland, Now’ selection, prepared in cooperation with the Embassy of Poland and the Travelling Festival, will feature important Polish productions of the recent period. This selection, which is included in the World Cinema section of the festival, will bring a total of five films together with cinema lovers in Adana for the first time.

Anna Jadowska's Woman On The Roof (Woman On The Roof, 2022), inspired by true events and about a 60-year-old woman's attempt to rob a bank, is a poignant drama with a memorable performance by Dorota Pomykala, who won the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Grzegorz Dębowski's Next To Nothing (2023) is a film about social resistance set in rural Poland. Dębowski, who was named the Breakout Director of the Year at the Polish Film Festival, presents the audience with a story full of tension.

Another important figure of Polish cinema, Robert Glinski's latest film ‘The Shadow Man’ (Strawman, 2023) reaches back to the communist era and depicts the psychological portrait of a secret police officer who followed Karol Wojtyla for 20 years before he became Pope John Paul II. This spy-thriller film presents the dark world of a man who succumbs to loneliness and despair.

The last production of the selection is ‘Peasants’ (2023), a collaboration between DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, an animated film created with more than 42 thousand oil paintings. Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, this film tells the story of a painful marriage in 19th century Poland and is a masterpiece of production.