Agnus Dei Gets US Release
WARSAW: Anne Fontaine’s drama Agnus Dei starring Agata Kulesza and Agata Buzek will be released by Music Box Films in the U.S. on 1 July 2016.
PRODUCTION: Ryszard Zatorski Shoots Romantic Comedy
WARSAW: Ryszard Zatroski is shooting Porady na zdrady, a romantic comedy about marital infidelity starring Weronika Rosati. Figaro Film Production Ltd. is producing.
OBITUARY: Andrzej Kondratiuk
WARSAW: Polish cult film director Andrzej Kondratiuk died 22 June 2016 in Warsaw. He would have turned 80 on 20 July.
Polish Film Institute Creates Film School Digital Base
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute launched a digital library of school films made by the students and graduates of four leading Polish film schools. The collection includes over 200 productions,…
New Board for Polish Filmmakers Association
WARSAW: The Board of the Polish Filmmakers Association has elected a new team of officers to join President Jacek Bromski.
PRODUCTION: Polish Film Institute Funds Claire Denis Coproduction
WARSAW: High Life, the first English-language film from Palm D'Or winner Claire Denis, has received 1.5 m PLN from the Polish Film Institute. The film will be a coproduction between…
FESTIVALS: Seventh School Film Festival Opens Thursday
WARSAW: The two-day School Film Festival is set to run 16 and 17 June 2016. The festival attracts students and teachers from across Poland.
Poland Opens Podkarpackie Film Commission
WARSAW: Poland introduced its seventh regional film commission, located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship in southeastern Poland. The Podkarpackie Regional Film Fund is planned to launch in 2017.
FNE at Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival 2016: Balcony and Hordur Take Top Prizes
WARSAW: The Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival, which took place in Warsaw 1-12 June 2016, gave its main prizes to films from Germany and the UK. The juries of the…
FNE at Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival 2016: Interview with Festival Director Anna Stadnik
WARSAW: Artistic Director of Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival, which concluded on 12 June 2016, talks exclusively with FNE on how we can raise better young viewers and why Scandinavian…
TVP Launches Call for TV Series
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP launched a new search aimed at finding original series ideas for its channels.
FESTIVALS: Gdynia Honours Kieslowski with New Competition
GDYNIA: The 41st Gdynia Film Festival, which will take place 19-24 September 2016, is honouring the 20th anniversary of the death of Krzysztof Kieslowski with a competition of one minute…
Bodo Kox and Nancy Spielberg Receive Mazovia Funding Support
WARSAW: The Mazovia Film Fund has announced that Bodo Kox and Nancy Spielberg will shoot their next films with the support of the fund.
PRODUCTION: Wojciech Smarzowski Finishes Shooting Volyhnia
WARSAW: It's a wrap for Wojciech Smarzowski's new history drama Volyhnia set to premiere in October 2016.
New French Tax Incentives Lure Polanski's Dreyfus Affair Away From Poland
WARSAW: Roman Polański's new film The Dreyfus Affair has been lured away from its planned Polish shoot by new French tax incentives.
FNE at Krakow Film Festival 2016: Prize Winners
KRAKOW: The 56th Krakow Film Festival awarded its top prize the Golden Horn for Best Film to the Russian/Estonian documentary My Friend Boris Nemtsov directed by Zosya Rodkevich.
Jablonski Re-elected VP of European Producers Club
WARSAW: Polish producer and director Dariusz Jabłoński has been re-elected as the Vice-President of the European Producers Club, the principal organisation of European film producers.
New Europe Film Sales Picks up Zoology
WARSAW: Jan Naszewski’s boutique sales outfit New Europe Film Sales has picked up the supernatural drama Zoology by the award-winning filmmaker Ivan Tverdovsky.
Wajda, Polański and Pawlikowski and Bromski Honoured by Polish Filmmakers Association
WARSAW: Polish Filmmakers Association celebrated its 50th anniversary and awarded the most influential Polish filmmakers and film professionals.
PRODUCTION: Maria Sadowska Shooting The Art Of Love
WARSAW: Maria Sadowska is in production with The Art of Love, a biopic of Michalina Wisłocka, a famous Polish sexuologist who revolutionised the sex life of Poles.
