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

The movie EO (named after the noise that donkeys make) puts viewers in the shoes of a downtrodden donkey as it travels from a Polish circus to an Italian slaughterhouse. Press materials

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.

Roarsome! Poland’s first circus with virtual animals embarks on nationwide tour

VIDEO: Grrr-eat news for circus fans. Featuring lions, elephants, whales and tigers, the Cyrk Wictoria has become just the third circus in Europe to replace real animals with holograms.

The Freedom Circus: new book explores a clown’s tale of Holocaust survival

From Warsaw to Melbourne via the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa, The Freedom Circus charts a family’s extraordinary journey to freedom.

Ruling party plans to ban fur farming, use of animals for entertainment

Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) plans to file a bill banning fur farming and the use of animals for entertainment purposes. The legislation is to go to the Sejm (lower house) still this week.

Lublin Hosts World Circus Acts for Three-Day Carnival

Over 100 ‘new circus’ acts – jugglers, acrobats, illusionists and clowns – will descend on the eastern Polish city of Lublin for the 10th Caranaval Sztukmistrzów on July 25-28.

Artists of the new circus gather in Lublin for Magicians Carnival

The 9th Magicians Carnival begins in Lublin (eastern Poland) on Thursday, and will feature over 200 performances and shows by artists of the new circus movement - from jugglers to acrobats - in the city's streets and squares.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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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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