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Poland’s film industry is booming and fast becoming the next big thing!

“Polish filmmakers have repeatedly set extraordinarily high standards in this branch of art. Today, the Polish film industry seems to be in full swing,” says new report. CRISTINA QUICLER/POOL/PAP/EPA

“Polish filmmakers have repeatedly set extraordinarily high standards in this branch of art. Today, the Polish film industry seems to be in full swing. Polish films are consistently screened at all major and prestige international film festivals,” says a new report by Dentons.

Hollywood star Sean Penn walks to Poland after abandoning his car in war-torn Ukraine

The Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker had travelled to Ukraine on the first day of the Russian invasion to meet Ukrainian officials as part of a film he is making to tell Western audiences about the war.

Netflix teams up with Łódź Film School

Netflix has teamed up with Łódź Film School to offer students workshops in filmmaking. 

Polish filmmakers win awards at Lepizig festival

A Polish cinematographer has won an award in the Best Long Documentary or Animated Film category of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, while another Polish filmmaker won a prize in the Best Documentary Short Film category.

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.

Camerimage’s stunning new European Film Centre to be built in Toruń

Sneak-peek images of the design show a large golden frog in front of one of the glass buildings, a symbol of the Energa Camerimage Festival and the name of its top award. It will also feature a festival centre, a market hall (a trade fair space for film products and technologies), a museum and an art gallery, cinemas, an education centre and a film studio.

Documentary uses unpublished archival films to recreate extraordinary life of ‘Poland’s Indiana Jones’, explorer and filmmaker Tony Halik

The new documentary produced by Marcin Borchardt reconstructs Halik’s remarkable and unique life story over half a decade using archival materials, including hitherto unpublished films shot by Halik from his multitude of journeys around the globe.

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Culture | History

‘Tarantino-style western’ about Kościuszko Uprising wins coveted Golden Lion award for best film at Gdynia film festival

VIDEO: Dubbed a ‘Tarantino-esque Western in 18th century Poland’, the film’s compelling blend of grotesque violence and black humour is set against the tumultuous backdrop of Poland in 1794, when Tadeusz Kościuszko, the eponymous 'Kos', returns to Poland to with a freed slave to rally support among the peasantry for his insurrection against the Russians.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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