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Bonanza! Thousands of classic Polish films made available online for free

The collection of nearly 4,000 films includes 160 feature films, 71 documentaries, 474 animated films, and 10 feature length animations. Press materials

The collection of nearly 4,000 films includes 160 feature films, 71 documentaries, 474 animated films, and 10 feature length animations.

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 animated film takes top prize at AniFilm 2021 in Czechia

'Kill It and Leave This Town', an animated feature film by Mariusz Wilczyński awarded as the best full-length film at the International Animated Film Festival AniFilm in Czechia, the Polish Film Institute announced on Monday.

Twelve Polish films to be screened at IDFA festival

A dozen Polish documentaries will be shown at this year's IDFA documentary film festival in Amsterdam, the Polish Film Institute announced on Thursday.

Powerful documentary The Wall of Shadows takes top prize at Norwegian film festival

VIDEO: The film by Eliza Kubarska and Monika Braid tells the story of Sherpa family which breaks a sacred taboo by agreeing to lead a group of westerners up the Kumbhakarna Mountain so that they can earn money for their son's school.

New ‘lockdown charge’ on video-on-demand platforms to help support film industry

​​​​​​​​The new charge, which would be paid to the Polish Film Institute, could bring in an estimated 15 million złoty (3.3 million euros) this year, and at least 20 million złoty a year in subsequent years, most of it from a handful of major players on the VoD market in Poland. ​​Small providers would be exempt from the charge.​​​​​

Warner Bros turns powerful best-selling novel into gritty big screen adaptation

A ‘vibrant and engaging story of modern love and lack of love’, award-winning director Aleksandra Terpińska’s Other People is set against the backdrop of modern-day Warsaw.

Kot’s back as he shoots new sci-fi film with all-star cast in Warsaw

The Cold War star is currently filming in the capital alongside Rupert Everett, Thomas Jane, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, among others, in a sci-fi drama which ’explores the meaning of life when vastly disparate lives collide in interweaving stories set in the near-future earth’.

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Jerzy Skolimowski's ‘emotional’ road movie about a melancholic donkey is nominated for 2023 Oscars

Chosen alongside All Quiet on the Western Front, Santiago Mitre's Argentina 1985, and the Banshees of Inisherin, Skolimowski’s film is billed as a dark exploration of humanity, technology and nature.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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