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April 20, 2024

The Peasants

Chłopi, D.K. Welchman, Hugh Welchman, Poland/Serbia/Lithuania 2023, 114 min., Polish with English subtitles

Presented by the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum, in collaboration with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and the Polish Film Festival.

October 31, 2023

Annual Polish Film Festival returns to Rochester

Starting Thursday, November 2, the annual Polish Film Festival is returning to the Rochester area thanks, in part, to the local and active Polish-American community.

November 7, 2022

Polish Film Festival Part II starts Tuesday, November 8

Randy Stone, director of the University of Rochester's Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, talks about this year's films and the festival's history.

November 9, 2021

Polish Film Festival returns to Dryden Theatre

Randall Stone, the Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, joined us on Good Day Rochester to discuss the films presented at this year's festival and what he would like audiences to examine about each film.

November 3, 2021

Polish Film Festival returns to The Little and Dryden Theatres

The University of Rochester Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies will present its Polish Film Festival in two parts beginning November 4.

April 7, 2021

Polish Film Festival: The movies you otherwise wouldn’t see in Rochester

Randall Stone, the Director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, discussed the Polish Film Festival lineup Wednesday during News 8 at Noon.

April 6, 2021

Polish Film Festival goes virtual

Randy Stone, director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, joins Fox Rochester to run down the lineup of films.

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Our Mission

Established through a generous grant from the Louis Skalny Foundation, the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies is housed within the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester. As an academic meeting place for teaching and research, the Skalny Center brings together faculty and students who wish to study the historical legacy and the current transformations within Central Europe. The Skalny Center maintains a specific focus on Poland because of its size and its success in achieving political and economic change.

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