Time Out magazine ranked Kraków’s tree ahead of the famous one at the Rockefeller Center in New York.
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Carp in the bath, hay on the table and Home Alone: the most unusual Polish Christmas traditions
Agata Pyka and Richard Greenhill
From talking animals to Macauley Culkin, here are seven of Poland’s most interesting Christmas traditions.
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NfP podcast: The Witcher, an interview with executive producer Tomek Bagiński
Our editor-at-large talks to Tomek Bagiński, executive producer of the hit Netflix series.
Warsaw landmarks recreated from ice at Japanese festival to mark diplomatic centenary
Warsaw’s iconic Palace on the Isle and Chopin monument have been recreated as ice sculptures during the Snow Festival in Sapporo.
How Poland’s phoney village priests inspired two filmmakers to an Oscar nomination
Nicholas Hodge
Nicholas Hodge speaks with screenwriter Mateusz Pacewicz about his Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi.
London play about Polish WW2 hero Karski offers powerful lessons from the Holocaust
Stanisław Skarżyński
The story of a Polish underground courier raises uncomfortable questions about our responses to genocide.
Witcher writer Sapkowski is Amazon’s most popular author after Netflix success
Following the success of the Witcher TV series, Andrzej Sapkowski becomes Amazon’s top-selling author.
Oscar nomination for Polish film Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi could become only the second Polish film to win the Oscar for best international feature film.
Monkeys, windmills and sausages: six of the best Polish idioms
Daniel Tilles
Our editor picks and explains some of his favourite Polish sayings. What are yours?
Polish deputy PM demands Netflix remove film depicting Jesus as gay
Jarosław Gowin called for Netflix to remove a “blasphemous” film depicting Jesus in a same-sex relationship.
“I speak Polish in school and Vietnamese at home”. Stories of the Vietnamese diaspora in Poland
Zula Rabikowska
A photographic project documents the lives and identities of Poland’s largest non-European immigrant community.
Polański complains he has been “lynched half my life” over sex abuse case
The Polish-French director claims that he, his victim and her mother “have atoned for this matter”.
Poland’s oldest museum reopens after ten years of closure and controversy
Nicholas Hodge
The Czartoryski Museum reopens following a controversial state purchase.
Lingvo universala: Zamenhof, Esperanto and the crusade for peace through language
Ian Stephenson
Esperanto’s Polish-Jewish inventor hoped a shared language could calm tensions in his native Białystok.
