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Classic cult film streamer Cultpix has struck a deal with Polish cultural institution WFDiF – Documentary and Feature Film Studios (Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych) for a season of Polish erotic cinema classics from the 1980s and early 1990s.

Titles featured in the season include Krzysztof Nowak’s “What Do the Tigers Like: (1989); Andrzej Barański’s “Bachelor Life in a Foreign Country” (1992); Roman Załuski’s “Och Carol” (1985); Ryszard Ber’s “Thais” (1983); Marek Koterski’s “Porn” (1990); and Jacek Bromski’s The Art of Loving (1989).

The deal was revealed at the ongoing Cannes film market, where Cultpix expanded deals with previously signed film libraries – Germany’s The Playmaker Munich, as well as Echelon Studios and Vinegar Syndrome from the U.S. – for over 250 titles to be released later in 2023 and in early 2024.

Cultpix celebrated its second anniversary in April and has added over 1,000 titles since launch. In addition to the WFDiF deal, the...

“Bread and Salt,” which has been selected for Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section, has debuted its trailer. The film has been picked up by Ikh Pictures Promotion for world sales.

The film, the feature debut by director Damian Kocur, follows talented pianist Tymek, a student of the Warsaw Academy of Music, who returns to his home town for a vacation, a place where time has stood still. The central meeting point for local youth is the newly created kebab bar. Tymek witnesses a growing conflict between Arab workers at the bar and his friends from the neighborhood. This conflict will lead to tragedy. The film is inspired by true events, and the actors are non-professionals.

The film is produced by Jacek Bromski, Ewa Jastrzębska and Jerzy Kapuściński for Munks Studio. The DoP was Tomasz Woźniczka and the editor is Alan Zejer.

Kapuscinski said the selection by Venice “marks 15 years...

The Polish Filmmakers Association (Sfp) and Poland’s Camerimage have offered employment to refugees from Ukraine.

The Polish Filmmakers Association (Sfp) and Poland’s Camerimage festival have offered employment to refugees coming from Ukraine following the Russian invasion last Thursday.

In a letter to Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland Andriy Deshchytsa, Sfp’s president Jacek Bromski said if some of the refugees crossing the border into Poland included representatives of the Ukrainian film industry, “we can help them find employment in the productions of the Munk Studio operating within the structures of the Polish Filmmakers Association.”

Bromski added the association...

A tough-nut ex-cop is lured back to her old job to help bring down a drug baron in this overlong and unengaging drama

Corruption runs yet again all the way to the top – but this even-paced, overlong Polish thriller barely musters a shrug about it, let alone sell Baltic port Gydnia as a kind of James Ellroy-esque helltown. Discharged from the force after being raped on a stakeout, tough-nut cop Kaja (Marta Nieradkiewicz) is lured back to the coast by the Central Bureau of Investigation to help bring down drug baron Kawecki (Andrzej Seweryn). The silver-fox plutocrat has mastered the art of hiding in plain sight: the well-to-do head of the Solid Gold bank, he launders his money through a posh restaurant and butters up Warsaw politicians for favours.

Director Jacek Bromski manages the curious combination of being both too impatient to push his case and too slow to make us care.

Andrzej Wajda, an enormously influential icon of Polish cinema who received an honorary Academy Award in 2000, has died at the age of 90. According to fellow filmmaker Jacek Bromski, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, Wajda was recently hospitalized and passed away earlier today.

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Best known for his war trilogy of “A Generation,” “Kanal” and especially “Ashes and Diamonds,” he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film on four occasions over the course of more than 30 years: “The Promised Land,” “The Maids of Wilko,” “Man of Iron” and “Katyń”; “Man of Iron” won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. His most recent film, “Afterimage,” screened in Toronto and was selected as Poland’s Oscar submission; though not intended as such, it serves as the swan song of a nonpareil career that lasted more than six decades.

Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. He was 90. Wajda had recently been hospitalized and died Sunday night, according to his colleague, film director Jacek Bromski. Wajda, who recently completed his last film, Afterimage — a biopic of famous Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski — had been struggling with ill health in recent years. Wajda, who celebrated his 90th birthday in March, had long wanted to make a film about Strzeminski, who was forced out of his job

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Wajda has been nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar on four occasions.

Poland has selected Andrzej Wajda’s Afterimage (Powidoki) as its candidate for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

The Toronto world premiere follows the story of Władysław Strzemiński, an artist who battled socialist realism and suffered terrible consequences of his artistic choices.

The film stars Bogusław Linda, with supporting performances by Bronisława Zamachowska, Zofia Wichłacz, and Krzysztof Pieczyński. Andrzej Mularczyk wrote the script and Dop was Paweł Edelman.

Producers are Akson Studio and co-producers are the National Audiovisual Institute, Telewizja Polska, EC1 Łódź - Miasto Kultury and Fundacja Tumult. The film was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

Veteran director Wajda has been nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar on four previous occasions.

The Oscar Committee comprised members of the Polish film industry and the Polish Film Institute, including Sławomir Idziak, Agnieszka Holland, Anna Biedrzycka-Sheppard, Ola Maślik, Jacek Bromski, Jakub...

If it's a weekend in the fall, that must mean there's a film festival going on in Austin. This weekend, we have the Austin Polish Film Festival, which runs from Thursday, November 5 through Sunday, Nov. 8. Sponsored by the Austin Polish Society, the movies and festivities will take place at the Texas Spirit Theater in the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum.

The opening-night film this year will be God's Little Village (U Pana Boga za miedza), a 2009 comedy from writer/director Jacek Bromski. This is the third movie in a series of comedies she's made that focus on a small Polish town, Krolowy Most. Bromski will attend the screening, along with composer Ludek Drizhal and actress Agnieszka Kotlarska.

You can buy tickets for individual films or for the whole Austin Polish Film Festival online through the fest website. You also can buy the fest posters, which as you can see on the right,...