The 1980s saw the emergence of student films that focused on the place of women in Polish society. Women have occupied a fundamental place in Lodz society, from the industrial revolution when they worked the looms and led strikes, to the war, when they supported both the Resistance and their families. The women of Natalia Koryncka's 1-1 are forced to sacrifice their home lives to long, grueling hours at the factories, while in Ewa Walewska's The Baby Carriage a woman resorts to smuggling coal to keep her family warm. In Leszek Wosiewicz's Non omnis a woman reminisces about her abusive marriage. Iwona Siekierzynska's Nihilscy, about a strained Christmas, and Malgorzata Szumowska's Silence, a portrait of Polish farm life, show that, in the 1990s, the Lodz Film School continues to produce talented directors; though the political climate may have changed, its curriculum has not. Tonight's program also features the Cannes-prize winning film by Mitko Panov, Hands Up, a moving reinterpretation of the famous photograph of a doomed boy in the Warsaw Ghetto roundup.