Dancing with the Russian Bear: Screening + Q&A

Dancing with the Russian Bear is a documentary series looking at security crisis after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. The film is an insight behind closed doors of power with protagonist Katarzyna Pisarska, chair of the Warsaw Security Forum.

The fly-on-the-wall approach captures off-the-record conversations and the mood among European presidents, prime ministers and lawmakers facing tough questions. Why has the West misread Putin? Will it be capable of listening to Russia’s neighbours as Europe prepares for the worst-case scenario?

The documentary features the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrii Yermak; Ukraine deputy PM Olha Stefanishyna; Head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Kyrylo Budanov; Polish PM Radosław Sikorski, Lithuanian President; Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuanian FM Gabrielius Landsbergis; Former Director of the CIA David Petraeus; President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili, Yaroslav Bazilevich, Hanna Hopko; Oleksandra Matviichuk.

Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska is a Polish social entrepreneur, civic activist and scholar. She is the Founder of the European Academy of Diplomacy (2004) and Co-Founder of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation (2005), the Warsaw Security Forum (2014) and the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (2022). She is also an Associate Professor at Warsaw School of Economics and Head of the Advisory Council to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Parliament.

For her leadership accomplishments in the non-for-profit sector, in 2014 Prof. Pisarska was recognized as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum and later selected to serve on the YGL Advisory Group. She was a Munich Young Leader (2021/2022) with the Munich Security Conference . She was also named “99 under 33” most influential world foreign policy leader by the Diplomatic Courier in Washington D.C.

Krzysztof Dzięciołowski is a veteran journalist and an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience in news and current affairs programming. He is a founder of Vision House Productions, a leading Central European media outlet producing feature documentaries, TV series and coverage of the most important events for global and domestic networks. His films take the audience from a war-torn Ukraine to global hotspots like Lebanon or Taiwan. Krzysztof has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera English, TVP, Discovery Network, Channel 4, PBS and many others. As a development and executive producer Krzysztof has run successful shows with large audience share with nominations in Cannes and Venice. He is a 2016 Fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University and 2022 Leadership Academy for Poland alumni.