Kamila Koronska
The event saw participants discuss parity and representation in the film industry.
Culture
Polish women react with amusement to “Slavic girl diet” trend on TikTok
The trend claims that eating buckwheat is the secret to maintaining a slim figure and healthy body.
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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
