Film Academy. Semester VI. 8111-AF12-OG

Paid classes. AF classes can be attended by people who have purchased a term pass:
- the fee is 370 zł (per term)

Passes sales:
Passes are sold on-line, starting from 9 II 2026. Priority in purchasing the passes is given to students registered in USOS system. The end of the sale is on . 9 III 2026

PEOPLE WHO HAVE REGISTERED ARE OBLIGED TO BUY THE PASS. IN CASE OF FAILURE IN PURCHASING THE PASS, ONE MUST WITHDRAW FROM THE SUBJECT DURING THE SECOND PERIOD OF REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ACADEMIC SUBJECTS

Maximum number of admissions: 1400

In-person classes take place once a week, on Mondays between 17:00- 22:30

Place:
Kino Elektronik
ul. Generała Zajączka 7, Warszawa.

First session of online classes takes place on Mondays at 18:00. The pass allows to log-in again between Monday and Wednesday. Both lectures and films are available in AV format.

CLASSES FIRST SESSIONS:
1 - 2 III 2026 Luchino Visconti
2 - 9 III 2026 Michelangelo Antonioni
3 - 16 III 2026 Federico Fellini
4 -23 III 2026 Ingmar Bergman i Luis Bunuel
5 - 30 III 2026 Roman Polański
6 - 13 IV 2026 Sam Peckinpah i William Friedkin
7 - 20 IV 2026 Pier Paolo Pasolini i bracia Taviani
8 - 27 IV 2026 Joseph Losey i Ridley Scott
9 - 4 V 2026 Andriej Tarkowski
10 - 11 V 2026 Elia Kazan i Milos Forman
11 - 18 V 2026 Bob Rafelson i Arthur Penn
12 - 25 V 2026 Europejskie kontestacje

1 VI 2026 Exam I
8 VI 2026 Exam II

The participation in the exam is voluntary, for the students who would like to be granted grade higher than a pass.

Detailed programme is available at: www.akademiafilmowa.pl
And on Facebook www.facebook.com/Akademia.Filmowa

Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) is the only cyclic study of general history of the Cinema in Poland available at an academic level , its lectures are recognized as faculty classes by 19 universities, including: Warsaw University, Warsaw University of Technology, Jagiellonian University, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Music Academy in Warsaw, Medical University in Warsaw, Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Film Academy lecturers included prof. Jerzy Toeplitz, prof. Andrzej Werner, dr Jerzy Płażewski, dr Rafał Marszałek, and among its graduates you can find film and TV producers, film critics and reporters as well as directors of TV stations. Currently, the classes at the Film Academy are conducted by prof. Tadeusz Szczepański and dr Mateusz Werner, academic lecturers with a significant record of research work and extensive teaching experience.

Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) has been established 50 years ago (first inauguration in 1975) and has educated many generations of academic youth. Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) co-organizer was Filmoteka Narodowa and it is subsidized by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Cultural Department of the Capital City of Warsaw and Polish Film Institute. Throughout its entire history, Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) has received many honours and awards, including prestigious „Laterna Magica” prize awarded by Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding achievements in the field of film education.

Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) has its own website www.akademiafilmowa.pl. The website includes films descriptions and screening schedule that stand an integral part of the Film Academy programme. All overviews are standardized and include the following information, which facilitate the interpretation and understanding of the work’s context:
> basic film information
> historical context in which the piece was created
> place and role in a given art movement or school (expressionism, surrealism, neorealism)
> features of the problem-philosophical layer
> analysis of the technical and aesthetic aspects
> presentation of the creators
> detailed list of complementary readings

In such way, each film description becomes a detailed filmography, whereas all the documents comprise a sort of electronic handbook covering the history of film from its beginnings to the present day. This handbook plays two roles. First of all, it is a glossary containing description of the most outstanding works, enabling repeated returning to them and learning the key concepts. Second of all, de facto the outline of cinema history, showing development of film arts from piece to piece, with the characteristics of its most fundamental aspects. Descriptions found at Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) website are easily accessed by students as well as every person interested. Teaching material is complemented by constantly updated bibliography

As a part of the course, students explore the development of film genres, film language, the evolution of dramaturgy, narrative and cinema aesthetics, the emergence of new film styles, movements and schools.

The assessment is in a written form, dates are specified in the syllabus.

The Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) program cycle is repeated every four years. One can participate in the classes starting from any semester. Missing semesters can be completed in subsequent cycles.

Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) introduces its participants into a 130-year history of the Cinema during a four-year course.

Year One – Beginning of the cinema and development of silent cinema until the sound breakthrough;
Year Two – Classic Cinema from the start of the sound Cinema through neorealism till the beginning of a new wave (1930-1955);
Year Three – French and European New Wave, New American Cinema and grand masters of the cinema (1955- 1980);
Year Four – New masters and the Cinema of the postmodernism era (1980-2000).

Organizational unit: Fundacja Pro Art-Tech

Fundacja Pro Art-Tech was established in September 2003.
It was aiming at saving the achievements and legacy of DKF „Kwant”, and especially its educational operations in form of Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy). Fundacja Pro Art-Tech is a non-profit organisation and its goal is to support talented youth studying at film-related fields and to promote film culture through organizing seminars, festivals, film reviews, screenings and exhibitions, as well as through publishing activities. Fundacja pays special attention to educational values in the area of film culture.

Fundacja is a successor to DKF "Kwant". Dyskusyjny Klub Filmowy „Kwant”(Film Discussion Club ”Kwant) was established by 35 Students from Warsaw Technical University on 30 IV 1965 and become extremely popular in the 70s and 80s as a thriving hub for cultural promotion, not only of a film culture. Kwant hosted among many: David Puttnam, Völker Schlöndorff, Lindsay Anderson, Fernando Arrabal, Julio Cortazar, Miklos Jancsó, Andriej Konczałowski, Sydney Lumet, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marcello Mastroianni, Nikita Michałkow, Roman Polański, Istvan Szabó, Liv Ullmann and Andrzej Żuławski. Here, its premiere had most of Polish films especially those of Andrzeja Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Kazimierz Kutz or creators from a circle of so called cinema of moral anxiety. Leading Polish critics and film experts cooperated with the Club eg, Aleksander Jackiewicz, Konrad Eberhardt or Krzysztof Mętrak. The most prominent event in the history of Kwant was a worldwide premiere of a film “ The Passenger” („Zawód: reporter”) with a participation of Michelangelo Antonioni in 1975. At the very same year DKF Kwant established Akademia Filmowa (Film Academy) led by prof. Aleksander Jackiewicz.