Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival is celebrating its 40th edition, placing its bets on emerging, often debuting Polish filmmakers. “This event often acts like a springboard,” says programming director ...

The fall festival circuit features a powerhouse lineup of Polish cinema that showcases an industry in full stride, with hard-hitting topical dramas, award-season hopefuls and potential box-office ...

Small but perfectly formed, kino Amondo is the tiniest movie theatre in the Polish capital. The venue is bustling with life being a cinema to watch films and, with shoots also taking place, it's truly ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Polish Film Institute (PISF) is set to begin its search for a new director following the departure of Karolina Rozwód, who left the role late last year following a dispute about the ...

"God did not create you to be poor!" Sony Classics has revealed an official US trailer for the hand-painted film The Peasants, an animated story of jealous men and angry villagers. They have been ...

Founded in 1989, the Polish Film Festival in America drew its commercial strength from the city’s giant Polish-American population, but more than a generation later, the fest has found a more ...

Agnieszka Odorowicz has been general director of the Polish Film Institute since it was set up 10 years ago. She talks with Variety’s Leo Barraclough about the aspirations and achievements of the ...

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 ...

Film posters are designed to sell a story in a glance, but for Polish artists under communism, they became a tool for visual defiance. Forced to reinterpret Hollywood classics within a restricted ...

Dream Entertainment has purchased the US distribution rights for Jestem (I Am), Dorota Kędzierzawska’s new film. This Californian society, which specialises in production, has decided to distribute ...

Of the notably healthy crop of women filmmakers emerging in Poland, few have found stronger resonance abroad recently than Malgorzata Szumowska, (pictured)who took a feature Teddy at last year’s ...