LOVE WITHOUT VISA
Milosc bez wizy

Country of production: Poland
Year: 2001
Language: Polish
35 mins.

The protagonists, a woman embittered by painful experience and a man with ‘a past’, are forced to believe in love at first sight when they experience it themselves. She is from Ukraine, he is from Poland. Meeting in unusual circumstances and falling in love immediately, their story would be banal if not for the practical difficulties that come with their relationship. Lena has left her son, along with her unloved husband, in her home country. It is impossible to live with her lover in Poland, and even harder for her son to join them. Only love exists in a foreign country without a visa and life without one is far too difficult. Lena’s tortuous trips between Poland and Ukraine, the constant fear that she won’t make it back, a series of humiliations at the border…
This scenario repeats itself every three months and it is a nightmare for them both.

Director: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Script: Ryszard Kaczynski
Cinematography: Andrzej Adamczak
Editing: Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
Sound: Halina Paszkowska
Production Company: Kalejdoskop Film Studio, TVP
Source:
Kalejdoskop Film Studio
ul. Chelmska 21
00-724 Warsaw, Poland
kalejdoskop@polbox.pl
http://www.kalejdoskop.com

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz graduated from the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts (painting) in 1978, and the School of Film and TV in Katowice (film directing) in 1982. She is the recipient of numerous awards. Selected filmography: A PIT (1983); EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO STANDS BEHIND WHOM (1983); I AM A MALE MAN (1985); THE OFFICE (1986); I DON'T BELIEVE THE POLITICIANS (1990); TURN ME IN A LONG SNAKE (1985); BARA BARA (1985); THE END OF THE WORLD (1992, feature film); LIFE FORGIVES YOU EVERYTHING (1999); LOVE WITHOUT VISA (2001); CHILDREN OF REVOLUTION (2002); and LOVE FOR A VINYL RECORD (2002).

Tuesday, March 24
9pm
Gallery Theatre
Screening with CHILDREN OF REVOLUTION

KALEJDOSKOP FILM STUDIO RETROSPECTIVE