WARSAW: Silver Bear winner Body/Ciało won Best Film and Best Director at Polish Eagles 2016. Małgorzata Szumowska's drama tied with The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street with four awards each.

WARSAW: Polish Film Institute and Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP) celebrated the 90th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda on 6 March 2015 by a special gala, while several festivals, exhibitions and art projects are held all over Poland.

WARSAW: The Guild of Polish Directors including Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland and Wojciech Smarzowski and a group of over 100 film critics have signed a protest letter to Jacek Kurski the President of public broadcaster TVP over materials broadcast before the screening of 2015 Oscar winner Ida that they claim “branded” the film with an ideological interpretation.

WARSAW: Lech Majewski will start shooting the adult fantasy Valley of the Gods in March 2016. The film is a Polish/American coproduction starring Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies, which will be shot in Poland, Italy and Utah, USA.

WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland has wrapped the third and final stage of the shoot for her crime thriller Game Count, a coproduction between Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden.

WARSAW: The 2014 Polish box office hit Gods will premiere in Spain on 19 February 2016 distributed by Surtsey Films.

WARSAW: Silver Bear winner Body by Małgorzata Szumowska and the box office hit These Daughters of Mine by Kinga Dębska received most of the nominations for the 18th edition of Polish Film Award The Eagles on 4 February 2016.

WARSAW: Polish director Władysław Pasikowski is working on a new historical thriller about Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army during WWII. The shooting of Courier (working title) will launch in 2017.

WARSAW: Anne Fontaine’s drama Agnus Dei, a French/Polish/Belgian coproduction starring Agata Kulesza and Agata Buzek, will open in France on 10 February 2016. The film is distributed by Mars Films.

WARSAW: Pitbull. New Order, a sequel to Patryk Vega's crime series Pitbull, had 211,091 admissions in the opening weekend, setting a record for a domestic film in 2016.