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Oscar contender Never Gonna Snow Again swamped with rave reviews

Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and her long-time collaborator Michał Englert, the film was described by the Hollywood Reporter as “a joy to watch, particularly Englert’s inspired lighting.” Ettore Ferrari/PAP/EPA

VIDEO: After been shown at the Venice Film Festival, the film was showered with praise by leading critics impressed with its acting, cinematography and “imagistic flamboyance.”

Venice contender ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ is first film to enter Oscar race

The film co-directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and selected for the 77th Venice International Film Festival has been described as “a universal story about man, which elevates Polish cinema to the heights of great European masters.”

Eighty years ago today, Stalin gave order for Katyń massacre

A new project launched on the anniversary today by the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, called Katyń Pro Memoria, shows the harrowing details.

‘Dark, dystopian’ spy thriller from Agnieszka Holland becomes first Polish series on Netflix

Shot in Warsaw, Wrocław, Lublin and Silesia, the story focuses on the harrowing question of what Poland would be like if it hadn’t broken free of its communist oppressors in 1983. The result is a dark, dystopian depiction of Poland in 2003.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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