" Gryczełowska, Kamieńska and Halladin are three great individualities of the Polish Documentary School . Each of them, disparately, paints a vision of Poland in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It is difficult to imagine Polish documentary cinema without their films , (...) they never created films together, neither were their achievements linked through a common denominator, nor were they brought together, like they have in this compilation. Nevertheless, the output of these three documentary [...]

In the jubilee year of Polish animation Polish Audiovisual Publishers publishes the third DVD album in its very popular series dedicated to film animation. The theme of the latest triple DVD set is Polish Experimental film animation. The films were chosen by the critic Marcin Giżycki. "Experimental animation is a broad notion that can be applied to many genres of animated film that break with formal and narrative conventions. The present anthology is a selection of some forty [...]

Polish Audiovisual Publishers published Paweł Mykietyn's album „Speechless Song". This is the first available monographic album from one of the most remarkable and interesting Polish contemporary composers, an author of music for theatrical performances of Krzysztof Warlikowski, films of Małgorzata Szumowska and Mariusz Treliński, the author of the cameral opera Ignorant i szaleniec (Ignoramus and the madman), the laureate of many prizes and this year's nominee and [...]

The importance of these films lies (...) not only in the sharp and critical tone they adopt, nor in the function of direct social intervention they perform. These films show some kind of rehabilitation of a social documentary's general sense. For the first time in years viewers are brutally and provocatively attacked, which makes them forget that they are sitting in front of the screen. They are treated with a highly meaningful piece of reality, presented with passion and with no [...]

ACTUALLY, THE GENRE I WORK WITHIN IS OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE TO ME. I AM INTERESTED IN THE DIVERSE EXPRESSIONS OF POLISH REALITY AND THEIR HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ROOTS. I DO NOT DIVIDE SUBJECT MATTER INTO CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL. [...] THE REALITY WHICH SURROUNDS US IS ANCHORED IN THE PAST. I, FOR EXAMPLE, BEING A PART OF THE PROCESS, AM CONTINUOUSLY GROWING OUT OF THE PAST. IN MY FILMS, I TRY TO MAKE THE VIEWER AWARE OF THIS CONTINUITY. I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE ON THIS LEVEL. I [...]

This CD is a record of first-night performances of "King Roger", an opera by Karol Szymanowski to the libretto by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, staged at the Wrocław Opera by Ewa Michnik (musical management), of Mariusz Treliński (direction) and of Boris Kudlička (set design). "King Roger" is undeniably one of most important operatic works of the first half of the 20th century. It is a fascinating philosophical treatise, polyphonic mystery play about transformation, a [...]