Blown from across a room, a peck on the cheek, a big old smooch on the mouth! Kisses can be playful and tender, friendly and ...

The rebirth of cinema in Poland after World War II is inextricably linked to the Łódź Film School, an oasis of progress and ...

In the modern era of digitalisation one may think that the fate of traditional books has already been sealed, but in ...

Zanussi's work was noticed during his activities in the amateur film movement in the 1950s and '60s. Nine of his eleven films received awards, including Tramwaj do Nieba (Tram to heaven), co-directed ...

Magdalena Abakanowicz became internationally famous through textiles, yet spent much of her career resisting the labels of ...

Wawel’s animal tapestries are far more than royal decoration. Woven in 16th-century Brussels for King Sigismund Augustus, ...

It’s a well-known fact that Warsaw is the capital of Poland. But in the country’s long and tumultuous history, a number of other cities served as the capital, including some that may come as a ...

During his early childhood he survived collectivisation and starvation. His father Stanisław was taken to work on the construction of the White Sea Canal in 1926 and his mother Teofila ended up in ...

Some streets are unavoidable, almost magnetic, like Oxford Street in London, or Broadway in New York. Poland’s cities are no exception to this, though some of their names might be trickier to ...

Polish migrants have been arriving in Britain for centuries, and British writers have been imagining them almost as long. But ...

A young woman raps about Lukashenko’s production plans, wins a presidential pen – then turns up on the protest barricades ...

Andrzej Wajda arrived in Britain as a revelation. From Lindsay Anderson’s early championing of his ‘human’ war films to later ...