There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a ….

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and stro….

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available….

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied a….

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initia….

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence..

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of ….

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that ….

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed les….

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to ca….

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality..

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active..

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a fil….

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well..

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other ….

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, writ….

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared..

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made..

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them..

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the….

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no ….