Shorter days, chilly mornings and unpredictable weather are clear signs that the sneezing and sniffling season is on its way. Pharmaceutical companies are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of peak sales, but is it really necessary to spend a fortune in the drugstore…
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A 46-year-old man disguised as a Hasidic Jew has been arrested in Krakow for using false documents to secure lecturing jobs at private universities around Poland. Mariusz K. passed himself off as an Israeli scholar using fake identity papers, a dummy doctorate and other forged…
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It’s getting colder and wetter, darkness comes earlier and you might have already seen some frost in the mornings. Apparently, this means it’s the perfect time for Krakow to revamp and expand its public bicycle share system. In fact, Krakow was the very first Polish city to start…
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At the end of Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir (2008), the animation suddenly gives way to photos of the Sabra and Shatila massacre during the Lebanese civil war. With his latest effort, this Israeli filmmaker with a Polish passport has split his movie into two almost equal parts…
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Cracovians were alarmed to hear warning sirens across the city this morning, but it was only an exercise. Between 10:00 and 10:15, civil defence alarms were tested across the entire country as part of a terrorism-response exercise called Renegade-Kaper 13/II…
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After directing Juliette Binoche in Elles (2012), Małgorzata Szumowska once more took inspiration from a news story for W imię. She opted for a subject even thornier than the one featured in her previous, unrewarding erotic movie…
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I ‘m fascinated by the qualities nationalities ascribe to themselves – the super powers people assume themselves to have acquired by the simple expedient of being born to speakers of a particular language or within lines drawn on a map. We’re all guilty of it…
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The Małopolska region will receive 2.39 billion euros in European funds for the period 2014–20. The money is part of allocations for the EU Cohesion Policy, which accounts for over a third of the Union’s budget…
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Filip Dzierżawski’s biopic about Polish supergroup Miłość was born out of a jazz-like improvisation. Miłość are known as the kings
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Morderstwo (A Murderer) accidentally became Roman Polański’s debut as a director simply because his beloved autobiographical short feature Rower (Bicycle)
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