Almost 52 million cinema tickets were sold in 2006, six million more than a year before. The majority of screenings take ...
Without a doubt zapiekanka is Poland’s most iconic fast food item. This long bun with a mushroom and onion filling, melted cheese and ketchup on top, not only is simply delicious and very nostalgic ...
Agnieszka Zwiefka’s documentary story about refugees from the Polish-Belarusian border is stripped of political slogans and journalistic simplifications. ‘Silent Trees’ is beautiful and painfully ...
They combine the standard documentary format with animation, feature and... opera. They play with form and venture beyond its limits. They create new genres, provoking the viewer with their visual and ...
In the 19th century, the Polish city of Łódź grew from a tiny farming town into a bustling textile industry metropolis – at a rate unseen anywhere else in Europe at the time. The cosmopolitan city was ...
The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...
Polish-born Ganna Walska was an operatic singer so unsuccessful that her failure as a vocalist is near-legendary: it inspired a theme of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and has been described in numerous ...
In May 2015, the University of Cambridge unveiled a strange white structure shaped like a futuristic Christmas tree. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Sierpiński triangle, a type of ...
Five European capitals hosted the refurbished version of the 1918 silent film “Mania. The Story of a Cigarette Factory Worker ...
Music has the power to bring people together. We go through a film whose famous Polish pianist brought people together, Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Paderewski’s global appeal includes the Polish opera ...
A two-minute piece must last for several minutes or several hours – Filip Lech talks to the composer of film, television and ...
In 2026, the Polish Parliament declared the Year of Józef Czapski to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of this ...