Marking ten years since the death of Andrzej Wajda, a BFI retrospective celebrates the towering Polish director whose films bore witness to his country's experience of war and tyranny. In this late ...

Andrzej Wajda’s biographical feature about Lech Wałęsa will be the Polish candidate for best foreign language film. Robert Więckiewicz as "Wałęsa" in Andrzej Wajda's film, photo. Marcin Makowski / ...

In 2000, Wajda received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy ...

Andrzej Wajda, considered Poland’s greatest director with credits including the Oscar-nominated The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007) has died. He ...

Academy Award winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda speaks during the opening of a review of some of his movies in March 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international ...

SET IN the city of Lodz between 1948-1952, “Afterimage” is a bleak biopic illustrating how the Stalinist government persecuted an artist who insisted on creating original work. Celebrated Polish ...

The 7th Habitat International Film Festival opens on March 13, featuring 67 films from 18 countries, focusing on Hungarian cinema. With women directors making significant contributions, and ...

Poland’s eminence gris of filmmaking, Andrzej Wajda, is planning to make a film about 1980s pro-democracy Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, with a script by Agnieszka Holland. Wajda, whose new film ...

Ways of Seeing is the new permanent exhibition of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź—a multifaceted narrative about 20th- and 21st-century art and about the museum itself as an institution of artistic ...

Following the death yesterday of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, the European industry is mourning the loss of the Palme d’Or and Honorary Oscar winner. Fellow Polish filmmaker and Oscar-winning Ida ...