ŁÓDŹ: Nine people have been selected to the Board of the newly created National Film Centre, designed to showcase Polish cinema. The NFC will start its activities in November 2016.

COTTBUS: The Polish comedy Planet Single by Slovenian director Mitja Okorn will vie in the main competition of the 26th Cottbus Film Festival, which runs 8 - 13 November 2016. Planet Single was one of the most successful films of the year in Poland and Slovenia.

KATOWICE: Kaytek The Wizard, a family film, directed by Magdalena Łazarkiewicz and based on a book by Janusz Korczak, will go into production in 2017. The film is planned as a Polish/Czech/Slovak coproduction.

KATOWICE: The Dutch drama Bodkin Ras produced by Raymond van der Kaaij and directed by Kaweh Modiri won the main prize in the Feature Film Competition at the 7th International Festival of Film Producers REGIOFUN in Katowice (18 - 23 October 2015). The Short Film Competition jury awarded ex-aequo The Radio Amateur directed by Lars Persson and the film French directed by Josza Anjembe.

WARSAW: The Line by Peter Bebjak was showcased at the12th CentEast Works In Progress, which took place during the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival from 14 to 16 October 2016. The film is a Slovak/Ukrainian coproduction.

WARSAW: The Polish Institute in Kiev postponed the official screening of Wojciech Smarzowski's drama Hatred / Volhynia about the Volyhnia massacres following a recommendation from Ukraine's foreign ministry official. Ukrainian officials said they feared the controversial film about the slaughter of ethnic Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during WWII by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) could provoke street protests in Kiev.

WARSAW: Latvian/Polish/Lithuanian/Czech Coproduction Bille by Inara Kolmane was showcased at the 12th CentEast Works In Progress, which took place within the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival from 14 to 16 October 2016.

WARSAW: The Lithuanian/Bulgarian/Polish coproduction, comedy-drama Miracle by Egle Vertelyte, was showcased at the 12th CentEast Works In Progress, which took place within the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival from 14 to 16 October 2016.

WARSAW: The Iranian drama Malaria by Parviz Shahbazi won the Grand Prix of the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival. The closing ceremony took place on 15 October 2016.

WARSAW: Maria Sadowska’s new biopic The Art of Love was presented at the 12th CentEast Works in Progress, which took place within the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival from 14 to 16 October 2016. The film is about Michalina Wisłocka, a famous Polish sexologist, who revolutionised the sexual life of the whole country in the middle of the communist regime.