May 2023

Documentary film. In Poland, as elsewhere of course, new technologies have changed the game. Everyone with a mobile phone is a potential documentary film maker. Sometimes it results in the emergence of a social movement, other times an opportunity for companies, like a mobile service provider, to advertise through “off” film festivals. The…

In a campaign to give a better gloss to Poland’s history, President Andrzej Duda launched what he calls an “offensive,” and the first target is U.S.-Polish Holocaust historian Jan Gross. Duda is mulling whether to strip Gross of one of Poland’s highest honors for suggesting  that during World…

Our month-long series about working in the arts in Europe comes to an end with award-winning Polish film-maker Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/05/katarzyna-klimkiewicz-new-europe

Tadeusz Rydzyk, Poland’s most politically powerful priest, is using an injection of government funds to build a geothermal plant — prompting opposition politicians to cry foul. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has been skeptical of some types of renewable energy — especially onshore…

Poland’s former communist leader has been facing trial on and off for 14 years but…

There seems to be a widely held view that the bout of illiberalism that has spread across Central and Eastern Europe since the economic crash of 2009 came out of nowhere, much like its later cousins Trump and Brexit. And if one were to read…

Mizar, a Muslim cemetery, is less than a kilometer outside the small village of Bohoniki in northeastern Poland. You pass the last houses, turn left along a track lined with trees. Behind a wall, between the trees, tombstones with crescent-shaped monuments begin. The village is…

Getting all your cardboard recycled may often seem like a pain, but there is big money to be made from all this so-called “beige gold”. And sadly this is attracting criminals around the world. Thieves are making a fortune from stealing used cardboard that’s been…

Excessive outbreaks of seaweed and microalgae are clogging up waters from the Caribbean to the Baltic. Now both are being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products. Mari Granström says it was her passion for scuba diving that opened her…