‘Who cares about history in film’ is the motto of a festival organized by the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.

The festival’s programme includes seven features and six documentaries focusing on the collapse of communism.

The action of most of the films, by directors from Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and other countries of the region, are set in the final days of communist rule.

All the films probe into the aftermath of the collapse of the system. Poland’s entry is Wojciech Marczewski’s highly acclaimed Escape from the Freedom Cinema, dating from 1990.

The film examines the mechanisms behind the system of film production and censorship in communist Poland. Panel discussions with filmmakers, critics and historians are the festival’s accompanying events. (mk)