Screenings of Europa 1931/32, by Stefan & Franciszka Themerson

Poland’s lost avant-garde film, Europa by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson (1931/32) was found in the Bundesarchiv in Berlin in 2019 by the Pilecki Institute. It is now 80 years since it was stolen by the Nazis during the occupation in Paris in 1940. This year, for the first time since the 1930s it will have a series of international screenings.

Tate Modern, London, 17 April 2020

National Film Archive, Warsaw, 20 April 2020

Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 23 April 2020

Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, 24 April 2020

Babylon Berlin, 27 April 2020

Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, 6 May 2020

Europa was the first avant-garde film made in Poland. This story is almost a century old, and it all started in Warsaw.