What is the favorite place on earth for famous animated film directors? And what can we expect from their newest film project around Bruno Schulz?

A provincial western and a black-and-white love ballad, a metaphysical feminist horror, a daring portrait of Generation Z and dystopian science fiction from Silesia. Here are the best Polish low-budget films of the past decade.

Why were the Romantics not interested in the new invention? How did the railway disaster improve Reymont’s finances? Patryk Zakrzewski writes about the reactions of 19th-century writers to the development of the railway.

The real calamity is to write an engaging book and publish it in progressive France. Sylvain Gouguenheim wrote such a book. In it, he explores the journey that Aristotle’s work had to take to get into the hands of medieval philosophers.

In a world fractured by discord, Auroville emerges as a bold experiment – a place in southern India where people from across the globe have gathered to answer one question: Can we create a better world, an alternative to what we know?

These songs inspired poets and were cause for heated copywrite disputes. In our day just as in the past century, they leave no one unmoved: they compel us to feel empathy, to cry and to smile.

The history of mail is tied to the evolution of roads, transportation, and communication. With writing and education, letters became a daily way to share thoughts, especially during separations, prison sentences, or romantic infatuations.

The history of Polish design might be perceived as quite short in comparison to some other countries. However, the period from the late 19th century until the present day is marked by a plethora of changes, innovations and projects.

Literary research shows that his ‘Historia przyszłości’, which has never been published in its entirety, may, in fact, have been a pioneering work of science fiction.

In larger Polish expatriate communities, it’s possible to feel as if you’re at the Mirów Market Halls; you can eat exactly the same things as in Poland.

About the private lives of great composers, about an orchestra of tramway workers, about rock fighting against communism, artists revolutionising jazz and… the music of robots. These are the most interesting Polish music documentaries.

Were love marriages even a possibility in the 19th-century countryside? And were traditional village communities really as conservative as depicted by ethnographers of the past?

The first official female Polish football champions came from… a newspaper. An advertisement was published in the weekly ‘Wiadomości Zagłębia’ asking ‘Would you care to play football?’. Here is what the beginnings of Polish women’s football looked like.

Trees taking revenge on humanity and Vistula hackers paralyzing the country using a floppy disk. A peasant man dressed as a woman, an erotic fanfaronade disguised as a psychological drama. Here’s a short tour of 1990s cringe cinema.

Built on Polish lands since the 17th century, hermitages, monastic buildings characteristic of the Camaldolese order, are today becoming increasingly available not only to monks.

Awesome great-grandmothers and the rights of women, forest democracy and mindfulness. What else are contemporary Polish writers – Olga Tokarczuk and Magdalena Tulli among others – talking about to our youngest readers?

Where shadows dance and melodies linger, we embark on an intimate conversation with Hania Rani. A virtuoso of haunting, ethereal compositions, Rani invites us into the realm where music and the mystical intertwine.

While filming his ‘eerie and adventure-filled tale’ about vampires, Roman Polański understood that many clichés about the mythical bloodsuckers were born of stereotypes about Eastern Europe.

During summer, we especially appreciate the advantages of park spaces as we look for shade, shelter from the heat and contact with nature. It is worth remembering that there are quite a few parks in Poland that also bring us artistic experiences.

New York has the Museum of Modern Art, London has the Tate Modern, Paris has the Centre Georges Pompidou. Starting on 25 October 2024, Warsaw also has its Museum of Modern Art. It took the capital city nearly a quarter of a century to get there.