Polish films at Imperial War Museum

The Imperial War Museum in London has opened a second exhibition of Polish firms and documentaries as part of a unique program called "Polish Paths to Freedom." The current segment…
01-04-2008

Days of Polish Film inaugurated in Ukraine

A memorandum on cooperation signed in March between Poland and Ukraine is yielding swift results. A series of Polish films representative of several generations of filmmakers is being screened this…
31-03-2008

Polish filmmakers defend TV license fee

A group of Polish artists, including filmmakers Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi and Agnieszka Holland, wants Prime Minister Donald Tusk to drop government plans to abolish the radio and TV license…
27-03-2008

Polish scriptwriter wins international competition

Michał Rogalski is the winner of the Polish edition of the International Hartley-Merrill Script Competition, run by the Andrzej Wajda film school. His script for Summer Solstice was selected out…
25-03-2008

Tribute to Pola Negri in Lodz

The Museum of Cinematography in Lodz is hosting an exhibition of posters, photos and other memorabilia of Pola Negri, the Polish-born international star from film's early days. Along with Polish…
17-03-2008

Poland inaugurates new program for debut directors

Polish authorities have launched a new program to help young filmmakers get a crucial boost at the beginning of their careers:.the "Youth and Film" Studio, named after Andrzej Munk, a…
16-03-2008

Katyn to screen in Moscow today

Katyń, renowned Polish director Andrzej Wajda's film about the massacre of over 20,000 Polish officers in the Soviet Union in 1940, will be screened in Moscow today through Wednesday for…
16-03-2008

World War II film review in Warsaw

The Museum of Polish History is holding a review of 21 documentaries relating to various aspects of World War II. Polish radio quoted a museum spokesman as saying the festival…
13-03-2008

Tricks takes yet another prize

Tricks by Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski has won the Knight Grand Jury Prize for best foreign film at the Miami Film Festival, Polish Radio's external service reported. Released in 2007,…
12-03-2008

Latest Ken Loach film opens in Poland

The latest film by Ken Loach, It's a Free World, about the exploitation of Poles and other immigrant workers in the UK, has opened in Poland. The film was shot…
12-03-2008

Trials in Poland for digital mobile TV

Trial broadcasts of 12 programmes from public broadcaster TVP and private broadcasters TVN and Polsat are under way in Warsaw, according to the Krakow-based research and consulting firm PMR Ltd.…
11-03-2008

Polish government to drop radio-TV license fees

The Polish government has announced plans to discontinue compulsory television and radio licence fees. The ruling centre-right Civic Platform party had said it favoured the move last autumn when it…
09-03-2008

Cyfrowy Polska may list globally

Digital TV platform Cyfrowy Polsat, which plans to list on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, is considering a global offer as well, but is waiting to decide until the markets stabilise,…
06-03-2008

Famed Polish actor Gustaw Holoubek dies

Renowned Polish actor on both stage and screen Gustaw Holoubek died on March 6 at the age of 85. Holoubek acted in more than 50 films for cinema and television.…
06-03-2008

Zanussi starts shooting Polish-Ukrainian project

Shooting began Wednesday on a new film by renowned Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi called A Heart in Your Hand. It's the first Polish-Ukrainian co-production since the two countries signed a…
05-03-2008

TVN files complaint over subsidies for TVP

Private media group TVN SA is asking the European Commission to investigate whether its public competitor Telewizja Polska SA has unfair advantage due to state subsidies it receives. TVN says…
28-02-2008

Survey finds Katyn considered best Polish film ever

Even though Andrzej Wajda's Katyń did not win an Oscar, a new survey shows Poles think that it's the best Polish film of all time.
25-02-2008

Polish-British coprod Peter and the Wolf wins Oscar

The Polish-British co-production Peter and the Wolf an adaptation of the Sergei Prokofiev classic created by an international team of over 100 professionals, won an Oscar in the short animation…
24-02-2008

Stream sells Polish cable TV subsidiary to Penta

Stream Communications Network & Media Inc., a broadband cable company offering cable TV, Internet and VoIP services in Poland, has closed the sale of its Polish subsidiary to Penta Investments…
24-02-2008

Wajda in Los Angeles for Oscars

Polish director Andrzej Wajda has already left for Los Angeles, where his film Katyń is one of the five contenders for best foreign-language film at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. Special…
21-02-2008