Can love survive the weight of circumstance, geography, and social stigma? That’s the question at the heart of Kamathipura ...
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox. The Polish Film Institute ...
The Polish Film Institute has named its new head honcho two months after dismissing the previous one. Karolina Rozwód has been appointed by the nation’s minister of culture after a special commission ...
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border tells story of brutal treatment of a Syrian family trying to get to Europe A prize-winning film sharply critical of the Polish government’s attitude to refugees has ...
LONDON — Polish Film Institute chief Agnieszka Odorowicz has lauded the Oscar win for Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” as recognition of the “strength and originality of Polish cinema.” The film, which was ...
Film and theatre director Andrzej Wajda, one of the most prominent figures in postwar Polish cultural life, died in Warsaw on October 9 at the age of 90. Wajda died from pulmonary failure. Born in a ...
A new film to be released in November tells the heroic story of the Polish cardinal who stood up to communist authorities bent on destroying the Catholic Church. In U.S. theaters Nov. 15 and 17, ...
A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbours in World War Two has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past. Most historians take ...