About
Kinoteka is London's Polish Film Festival, presented annually by the Polish Cultural Institute. Running across venues including BFI Southbank, Ciné Lumière, ICA, and the Barbican, the festival brings the finest Polish cinema — classic and contemporary — to London audiences each spring. Since its founding, it has become the UK's leading showcase for Polish film, offering retrospectives, world premieres, director Q&As and special events.
The 2026 edition is dedicated to the work of Andrzej Wajda, one of Polish cinema's towering figures, with an extensive retrospective spanning his war trilogy, the Solidarity trilogy, and later masterworks. Alongside the Wajda focus, the programme features a Krzysztof Kieślowski strand at Ciné Lumière, a documentary strand at Bertha DocHouse, and a wide range of contemporary Polish filmmaking at venues across the city.
