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Polish Film

Polish Film Institute – established in 2005 in accordance with a new cinematography law passed by the Polish Parliament, the Polish Film Institute (Polski Instytut Sztuki FIlmowej – PISF) is the newest film institute in Europe. It is set up similar to the mechanisms of support for the film industries in many other countries of Europe.

Polish Film School – (Polska Szkoła Filmowa) – a term used in reference to an informal group of Polish film directors and screenplay writers active between 1955 and approximately 1963. The first to underline the national character of Poles and one of he first artistic movements in Central Europe to openly oppose the official guidelines of Socialist Realism.

Cinema of Moral Concern [also: Cinema of Moral Anxiety] (Kino moralnego niepokoju) – Poland’s most famous film movement (1976-1981) and the second classic stream of Polish cinema. Based on reality, it criticized the corruption of the Communist system in Poland.

National Film School in Łódź – the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (Państwowa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi) is the most notable academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operations and TV staff in Poland. It was founded on March 8, 1948 in Łódź.


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