Inaugurated on Tuesday, February 22, the 2nd National Culture Festival “Memory and Identity” will present over 170 productions and co-productions of Polish television realized mainly in 2021.

During the festival, viewers will see over 540 hours of films, series, performances, programs and concerts in nine festival categories: Film and feature series, Film and documentary series, Theater, Reconstruction, Concert and spectacle, as well as a new category dedicated to kids -Little Pole and the category of Cultural-Historical Journalism, presenting important issues of the national identity of Poles. The special categories in this year’s Festival are the Heritage of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Homeland in Chopin’s notes.

Opening the Festival, Jacek Kurski, president of Polish Television said that Poles live in a time of anti-culture, when they are denied the right to their history, identity and pride. Poles live in times of anti-culture based on the rejection of God, a kind of mad dechristianization, replacing a personal God with gods of climate protection, or in an accelerated, offensive, such neo-Bolshevik cultural and sexual re-education. In short, culture is what constitutes Poles, what determines what kind of people, the nation they are and that is why it must be protected.

The National Culture Festival “Remembrance and Identity” is an initiative aimed at developing and strengthening the sense of national identity of Poles. A novelty of the Festival is a competition for a documentary film project organized on the basis of Pitching. The main assumption of the competition is to support the authors of the Polish documentary, and the prize is the implementation of the winning project by Polish Television.

The festival will end with a ceremonial Gala that will take place on March 1, on the National Day of Remembrance of the Cursed Soldiers. During the Gala, the jury will grant statuettes of Gold and Platinum Gorgets, referring to the mementoes of the fallen national heroes.

Adrian Andrzejewski