WARSAW: The minority international coproduction funding scheme created by the Polish Film Institute will give support totalling over 3.9 m PLN / 920,901 EUR to eight international projects.

WARSAW: United States of Love by writer/director Tomasz Wasilewski will be released in France by Sophie Dulac Distribution on 5 April 2017. The film was awarded a Silver Bear for best script at the 2016 Berlinale.

WARSAW: Anne Fontaine’s drama Agnus Dei will be released under the title Süütud by Menufilmid in Estonia on 31 March 2017.

WARSAW: Bartłomiej Ignaciuk is currently shooting for TVN his debut feature, the romantic comedy Tax on Love. The premiere is planned for the beginning of 2018.

WARSAW: Michalina Wisłocka’s biopic Art of Love, which is currently number one in the general box office in Poland with more than 1.72 admissions, will be released in the UK and Ireland by Odeon on 31 March 2017.

OLSZTYN: The new regional film fund for Warmia and Mazury offers 115,500 EUR / 500,000 PLN of funding for film productions that will promote the region and its film professionals.

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP launched a UE co-financed project that will digitalise its 800 archive productions in the course of the next three years.The budget of the project is almost 19 m EUR / 81 m PLN.

WARSAW: Ryszard Zatorski's new comedy Advice for Betrayals / Porady na zdrady topped the Polish box office during its opening weekend.

WARSAW: The Helios cinema chain opened its 42nd multiplex cinema in Wołomin. The chain now runs 233 screens and 47,000 seats on the Polish market.

WARSAW: As its new original series Belle Epoque hit a record of 2.9 m viewers during the premiere of the first episode, TVN decided to invest in the format and to sell it abroad.