Isabel Jacobs
They include interwar avant-garde cinema, the world’s first Holocaust film, and reflections on feminism.
Culture
Polish children’s fantasy film Kleks Academy becomes hit on Netflix
It was viewed 3.7m times during its first week on Netflix, making it the third-most-watched non-English movie worldwide on the platform.
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Kraków chosen as best city break destination in Europe for third year running
Members of leading British consumer association Which? have chosen Kraków as Europe’s best city break destination for the third year in a row.
Reflections on All Saints’ Day in Poland
Stanley Bill
All Saints’ Day is the most Polish of holidays, as many Poles return to their family homes to gather around the graves of their ancestors.
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk returns to hero’s welcome in Poland
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been feted back in her native Poland, where she attended the Conrad Festival of literature in Kraków.
Poland’s forgotten Nobel winner who wrote “Animal Farm” before Orwell
Filip Mazurczak
Twenty years before Orwell published “Animal Farm”, a now-forgotten Polish Nobel laureate wrote a remarkably similar novel.
Polish cultural institutions are rotting from the top down
Piotr Kosiewski
There is growing concern about the situation at two major public museums in Warsaw, highlighting the problems caused by how the current government exercises power.
Books are weapons: the Polish opposition press and the overthrow of communism
Siobhan Doucette
Siobhan Doucette discusses the content of her first book, “Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism”.
New film on Wołyń massacres unites Poles in praise – but reconciliation with Ukraine will be harder
Daniel Tilles
Daniel Tilles discusses the Wołyń massacres, the subject of a new film, and how they remain an obstacle to cordial Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Review of “Ida”: identity and freedom
Stanley Bill reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and remarks on accusations of stereotyping and antisemitism
