Agnieszka Zwiefka’s documentary story about refugees from the Polish-Belarusian border is stripped of political slogans and ...

Music has the power to bring people together. We go through a film whose famous Polish pianist brought people together, ...

The paths of the Church and mainstream art diverged centuries ago, but at Manifesta 16, art returns to sacred spaces and ...

The first Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition took place in 1935 in Warsaw on the centennial birth of its ...

Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera, The Passenger, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger has won two Golden Mask awards, the biggest ...

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 Polish cavalry called the hussars or ‘winged horsemen’ were amongst the deadliest army units in Europe, playing a crucial role in military history. Unsurprisingly, they have been immortalised by ...

The plot of The Invincible is loosely related to Lem's novel of the same name – the creators took the world of the planet ...

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 ...

The most recognisable symbol of Poland is undoubtedly the eagle. The white bird adorns the nation’s crest, is found on its currency, adorns the uniforms of its football stars, and gives its name to ...

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 ...

A two-minute piece must last for several minutes or several hours – Filip Lech talks to the composer of film, television and ...