Coming Up in the UK Andrew J Horton Details of selected Central and East European cultural events in the UK over the next few weeks, a Central European cultural detente, women playwrights in translation, a Polish composer remembers Poland's most famous film director, funny money at the Slovak Embassy and films shot in Yugoslavia as the NATO bombs rained down. Information about the autumn season of cultural events is slowly trickling in as all the press offices get back from their holidays. Watch this space for details of more events as they come in.
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13th Leeds International Film Festival Plenty of Central European film scheduled for this festival, which takes place from 7 to 23 October 1999. Amongst the features will be a whole host of Czech and Polish films, including a retrospective of the Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski, classics by Milos Forman and the 1947 Czech animated film which has inspired generations of Czech and international animators since. At a seperate event there will be a screening of Kieslowski's rarely seen early-1980s classic Blind Chance . Amongst the contemporary films on show there will be some of the more popular of Czech films of the last year, including Cosy Dens , In the Rye , The Past and Agatha . Click on the titles to see Kinoeye reviews of these films.