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In his latest film, Jan Komasa — the director of the Oscar-nominated "Corpus Christi" — tells the story of a nineteen-year-old partygoer who, after one of his nocturnal escapades, wakes up chained in the basement of a Victorian mansion. Yet instead of a conventional kidnapping thriller, the result is a subversive tale about upbringing, control and power relations.

On February 20, 2026, Winter of the Crow, directed by Kasia Adamik, opened in Polish cinemas — a hypnotic, densely layered thriller that transforms a familiar chapter of history into an experience that feels at once dreamlike and unnervingly immediate.

Netflix has premiered the true-story-inspired series Lead Children. The six-episode thriller, set in 1970s Upper Silesia, was directed by Maciej Pieprzyca.

The nominations for the Eagles — the Polish Film Awards — have been announced, with the strongest showing from Brat directed by Maciej Sobieszczański, Dom Dobry by Wojciech Smarzowski, Franz Kafka by Agnieszka Holland, and Emi Buchwald’s feature debut There Are No Ghosts in the Apartment on Dobra Street.

The new Polish HBO Original series "Women’s Hell", directed by Anna Maliszewska, will debut on Friday, 6 March, on the HBO Max platform. New episodes of the six-part production will be released weekly on the service, leading up to the finale on 10 April.

In Maciej Żak’s latest film Notes of a Mortal, a subtle blend of irony and magical realism leads us into the inner world of fifty-year-old F.P., who, struggling with a growing sense of hopelessness and inherited sadness, attempts to depart on his own terms.

Today, the fifth and penultimate episode of the series “Heaven. A Year in Hell” premiered on the HBO Max platform. On January 30, viewers will be able to watch the complete season of this miniseries inspired by true events.

On 19 January 2026, Marta Cienkowska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, appointed Joanna Łapińska as Artistic Director of the Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych for a five-year term.