Film

New film tells forgotten history of how small Polish village became site for the first mass use of chemical weapons

Director Ireneusz Skruczaj said: “Clouds of Death is a film about memory and its guardians. A story about trauma, forgetting and truth. An account of the perversion of science in the service of mass murder.” Press materials

In January 1915, the German high command sent a special, recently formed sapper regiment to Bolimów situated between Łódź and Warsaw, where they fired 18,000 shells filled with Xylyl bromide, or tear gas.

MFA to take "appropriate action" over disruption of Holland film

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it will take "appropriate action" after a group of masked intruders disrupted the screening of an Agnieszka Holland film on Thursday at the Moscow Memorial Society.

The forgotten siren of Polish Poster art: Barbara Baranowska

The re-release of Andrzej Żuławski’s psychological horror Possession for its 40th anniversary has again cast the spotlight on artist Barbara ‘Basha’ Baranowska.

Story of Wojtek the Bear to be turned into delightful animated film

Written by Wojciech Lepianka and directed by Iain Gardner, the project is a Polish-British initiative financed by the Polish Film Institute, Screen Scotland and the UK-government supported Young Audience Content Fund.

Polish film director jury president of 65th BFI London Film Festival

Malgorzata Szumowska has been named the Official Competion Jury President of this year's BFI London Film Festival.

Budding filmmaker debuts creepy new interactive thriller set in Poznań

VIDEO: Entitled ‘EXIT’, the film which has eight possible endings allows viewers to interact with the narrative, influence the events that unfold as well as the fate of the main character played by Herbert Młynarczyk who is being pursued by an ominous skulled creature with antlers.

Polish avant-garde movie finally sees light of day

In this episode of The Debrief, we find out more about a Polish film dating from the 1930s which has just been unearthed at the German Bundesarchiv in Berlin.

New Netflix production based on shocking true life story of secret police operation to track down homosexuals

VIDEO: ‘Operation Hyacinth’ is named after the police operation of the same name which was conducted by the Communist Citizen’s Militia (MO) between 1985-87 and led to information being collected on around 11,000 gay men and a record of their sexuality being kept on police record.

Avant-garde masterpiece lost for 80 years to get world premiere at London Film Festival

Made in 1931 by surrealist Warsaw artists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, the anti-fascist film ‘Europa’ was intended to reflect an atmosphere of horror and all-pervading societal decline as Hitler rose to power in Germany.

‘Cinematic first’ reveals WWII heroism of two of Poland’s greatest spiritual figures

The film , ‘Wyszyński - Revenge or Forgiveness' which premiered yesterday, stars Ksawery Szlenkier as Stefan Wyszyński and Małgorzata Kożuchowska as Mother Elżbieta.

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