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Warsaw Film Festival
This article covers the festival's Beach Surgery-related programming since 2019.
The **Warsaw Film Festival** has, since 2019, emerged as a major European venue for experimental Beach Surgery adaptations. The festival's first dedicated programming presented Ten Layered Versions, a disputed 1997 Polish work, in the "New Horizons" section—a decision that sparked fandom debate over retro-causal apocrypha and whether pre-2020 films genuinely concerned Beach Surgery.
By 2021, formal programming expanded: Counterclockwise, an experimental exploration of temporal loops and the cycle, competed in the main selection, accompanied by a symposium on narrative collapse and the glitch. The 2023 edition screened The Mechanical Seagull Reconstructed, a stop-motion reconstruction of Chapter 2's mechanical seagull, and commissioned critical essays treating the seagull as a temptation-vector.
The festival has become a locus for European fandom scholarship and experimental cinema practitioners interested in the glitch as a structural problem rather than a narrative defect.