1. Trailer

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the COLD WAR in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

• Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
• Country: Poland, France, UK
• Genre: Drama | Music | Romance (Love)
• Year: 2018

• Run Time: 01:28:40
• imdb Score: 7.7/10 (23,598 votes)
• Language: English
• Rating: R

• Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza

"COLD WAR is a near-perfect film, an artfully crafted, flawlessly acted meditation on love, memory and invented history that's both deeply personal and politically attuned."
Ann Hornaday - WASHINGTON POST

"Cinematographer Lukasz Zal finds a chilly, etched beauty in every frame; you're struck by how snow seems to stroke and soften a harsh landscape, and by the poignancy of wind ruffling the grass in a quiet field."
Moira MacDonald - SEATTLE TIMES

"Through COLD WAR, Pawlikowski shows us the beauty in an ugly time, and then he makes us wait and wonder if the characters will ever see it, too."
Mick LaSalle - SAN FRANCISO CHRONICLE

"Passionate, tempestuous, haunting and assured, this latest from writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski explores, as did his Oscar-winning "Ida," Poland's recent past, resulting in a potent emotional story with political overtones that plays impeccably today."
Kenneth Turan - LOS ANGELES TIMES

AWARDS

Academy Awards Nominee 2019
Best Director, Cinematography and Foreign Film

Cannes Film Festival 2018
Best Film

Stockholm Film Festival 2018
Best Film

Camerimage 2018
Best Film and Director

European Film Awards 2018
Best Edition

El Gouna International Film Festival 2018
Best Actress

Ghent International Film Festival 2018
Best Film

National Board of Review 2018
Best Foreign Film

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2018
Best Foreign Film

Polish Film Festival 2018
Best Edition, Sound and Film

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2018
Best Cinematography

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2018
Best Foreign Film

New York Film Critics 2018
Best Foreign Film

FESTIVALS

Sundance Film Festival 2018

Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2018

Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival 2018

Melbourne Int'l Film Festival 2018

Athens Int'l Film and Video Festival 2018

San Diego Int'l Film Festival 2018

Chicago Int'l Film Festival 2018

Jerusalem Film Festival 2018

Philadelphia Int'l Film Festival 2018

Odessa International Film Festival 2018

Sarajevo Film Festival 2018

Miskolc Int'l Film Festival 2018

New York Film Festival 2018

Hamburg Film Festival 2018

and more...