OBITUARY: Polish Director Jerzy Gruza
WARSAW: Polish theatre and television director Jerzy Gruza, creator of many programmes and series, including Forty-year-old / Czterdziestolatek and Civil War / Wojna domowa, died on 16 February 2020 at…
PRODUCTION: Irish/Polish Coproduction Starring George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp In Production
WARSAW: The Irish/Polish coproduction Wolf, directed by Nathalie Biancheri and starring George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, is set to start shooting in April 2020. Bankside Films manages the worldwide sales.
Israeli/Polish/Colombian My Neighbor Adolf Picked Up By Beta Cinema
WARSAW: The Israeli/Polish/Colombian coproduction My Neighbor Adolf directed by Israeli director Leon Prudovsky has been acquired by German Beta Cinema while in production. The film stars David Hayman and Udo…
Corpus Christi Dominates Polish Eagles Nominations 2020
WARSAW: Jan Komasa’s Academy Award nominated drama Corpus Christi received 15 nominations for the Polish Film Awards - The Eagles, announced on 5 February 2020. The nominations include Best Film,…
DAFilms Expands to Poland and Slovakia
WARSAW: The international streaming service DAFilms opened new domains in Poland dafilms.pl and Slovakia dafilms.sk starting 3 February 2020.
Camerimage European Film Center To Be Built In Toruń
TORUŃ: The headquarters of the new Camerimage European Film Center is to be built in Toruń by 2025 as a joint investment of the National Treasury and the Municipality of…
Kino Polska To Launch VOD Service
WARSAW: Polish private broadcaster Kino Polska plans to launch its own VOD service that would showcase its original content.
BOX OFFICE: Pasikowski's Dogs 3 Tops Polish Box Office
WARSAW: The third instalment of Władysław Pasikowski’s crime series Dogs tops the overall box office in Poland with 800,000 admissions, of which 400,000 admissions in its opening weekend. The film…
Poland Supports 26 Projects With Over 12 m EUR Under Its Incentive Scheme
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute granted over 12 m EUR to 16 national and 10 international projects as part of the incentive scheme that was introduced in Poland in February…
FNE at WEMW Co-Production Forum 2020: Lili
TRIESTE: Lili, a documentary by Polish newcomer director Sylwia Rosak, will be showcased in the Co-production Forum of the 10th edition of When East Meets West (19-21 January 2020), the…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Kino 60 krzeseł, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
This month we speak with Iwona Bartnicka, Film Culture Department Manager within the Art Centre (MOS) Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, who is in charge of the cinema 60 krzeseł. The cinema…
PRODUCTION: Patryk Vega Wraps Shooting On Bad Boy
WARSAW: Patryk Vega enters postproduction on his new film Bad Boy, which was shot on location in Wrocław from December 2019 till the first week of January 2020. This time…
Another Record Year For Polish Cinema
WARSAW: Polish cinemas had 60.2 m admissions and racked up over 266 m EUR at the box office in 2019, breaking the 2018 record of 59.7 m total admissions. Lion…
FNE Introduces Its 2020 Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Works-in-Progress
WARSAW: Film New Europe is introducing its 2020 Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Works-in-Progress. The Agenda gives a chance to producers from Central and Eastern Europe to market their…
PRODUCTION: Maciej Barczewski Wraps Shooting On Auschwitz-Birkenau Boxing Champion Biopic
WARSAW: Maciej Barczewski has wrapped shooting on Master / Mistrz, a biopic of Tadeusz „Teddy” Pietrzykowski, a boxer who won the title of master of the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.…
FESTIVALS: Midnight Family Wins Watch Docs International Human Rights Festival
WARSAW: Midnight Family directed by Luke Lorentzen, a powerful documentary about the work of ambulance responders in Mexico, won the Grand Prix at the 19th Watch Docs International Human Rights…
PRODUCTION: Polish TVN in Postproduction with Drama Inspired by Real Life Events
WARSAW: Jan Holoubek is in postproduction with 25 Years of Innocence. The Case of Tomek Komenda, a drama following the tragic story of a man who had served 18 years…
PRODUCTION: Maciej Drygas in Production with Polish/Lithuanian Doc Trains
WARSAW: Acclaimed Polish director Maciej Drygas is currently in production with Trains, a documentary he is also producing through Drygas Film Production in coproduction with Rasa Miškinytė through Lithuania’s Era…
GRANTS: Polish Film Institute Supports Three New Feature Films
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute supported the production of three new feature films with 981,787 EUR / 4.2 m PLN in the 3rd and last batch of funding for 2019.
PRODUCTION: Sequel To Young Audience Hit Double Trouble In Postproduction
WARSAW: Triple Trouble / Tarapaty 2, a sequel to the Polish hit live action children film Double Trouble / Tarapaty, wrapped shooting in the last week of November 2019 and…