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Ola Salwa


346 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 13/08/2025.

Alicja Grawon-Jaksik • Producer, MTL Max Film

Interview: Alicja Grawon-Jaksik • Producer, MTL Max Film

“I believe we can work on projects that have more commercial appeal on an international level and attract bigger audiences to cinemas”

We had a chinwag with the producer, recently appointed vice-president of the established Polish production house, which for the past 30 years has mainly produced romantic comedies  

30/11/2022 | /Poland

Johnny emerges as the most popular Polish film of the year, with 800,000 admissions

Johnny emerges as the most popular Polish film of the year, with 800,000 admissions

As the country’s box office continues to recover from pandemic-era losses, Daniel Jaroszek’s warm-hearted biopic of a priest is enjoying huge success  

07/11/2022 | Box Office | Poland

Leszek Dawid • Director of Broad Peak

Interview: Leszek Dawid • Director of Broad Peak

“We went contrary to expectations, since we knew that everyone would assume that a film about Broad Peak would focus only on the 2013 expedition”

We talked to the director of this ambitious and laborious Polish Netflix film revolving around mountain climber Maciej Berbeka  

28/10/2022 | /Poland

Maciej Kawalski  • Director of Dangerous Men

Interview: Maciej Kawalski • Director of Dangerous Men

“It was a long process of writing, rewriting, script-doctoring and ‘killing my darlings’ to make the story airtight”

The director’s feature debut, an adventure-comedy set in 1914, featuring major literary and political stars of the time, recently picked up the Audience Award at Warsaw  

25/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

May Labour Day scores the Warsaw Grand Prix

May Labour Day scores the Warsaw Grand Prix

Pjer Zalica’s film, co-produced by five Balkan countries, has won the top prize in Poland, while Sisters by Linda Olte was named Best Debut in the 1-2 Competition  

24/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022 | Awards

Bille August • Director of The Kiss

Interview: Bille August • Director of The Kiss

“Non-disabled people take love for granted and see it as something they have a right to”

The seasoned Danish director returns with an elegant period drama that revolves around a military officer who is too compassionate for his own good  

21/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Dangerous Men to open the 38th Warsaw Film Festival

Dangerous Men to open the 38th Warsaw Film Festival

The annual gathering in the Polish capital offers 156 films from 57 countries, plus the Odesa-Warsaw Ukrainian Competition section  

14/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

The Silent Twins wins the Golden Lions at the Polish Film Festival

The Silent Twins wins the Golden Lions at the Polish Film Festival

Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s English-language debut, which premiered earlier this year at Cannes, has come out on top at the Gdynia-based gathering, scooping a slew of prizes  

20/09/2022 | Gdynia 2022 | Awards

Review: Bread and Salt

Review: Bread and Salt

VENICE 2022: In his brilliant first feature, Damian Kocur inspects violence and the legendary Polish hospitality, but takes it with a huge pinch of salt  

16/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Damian Kocur • Director of Bread and Salt

Interview: Damian Kocur • Director of Bread and Salt

“Cinema for me is not recounting events or telling a story; it happens on an emotional level”

VENICE 2022: Cineuropa chatted with the Polish director, whose stellar debut feature explores what violence is and what it means to participate in it  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

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