Poland Submits Venice Premiere ‘Leave No Traces’ To International Oscar Race

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s broadcasting regulators extended the license of Discovery Inc.-owned TVN24 at the last moment Wednesday but also adopted a resolution to pressure the American company to sell its majority stake in the TV news channel, which airs coverage that is critical of Poland’s government.The National Broadcasting Council, known by the Polish acronym KRRiT, had delayed the renewal of TVN24's license for almost two years.

Naman Ramachandran John Malone’s multinational telco Liberty Global — owners of “Fleabag” and “1917” producer All3Media and joint owners with Telefonica of the merged Virgin Media and O2 – has reached an agreement sell its Polish operations to the iliad group’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play.Liberty Global has agreed to sell UPC Poland for a total enterprise value of PLN 7.0 billion ($1.8 billion).

CD Projekt RED, the studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher III, has put out the call for designers to work on an unspecified open-world project.The job listing appeared on games industry employment site GameJobs.co last week (September 17), and is calling for an “Open World Designer (Junior/Specialist)” for a role based in the Polish developer’s Kraków offices.While there’s no information to be gleaned on what exactly the game is from the listing, the developer is looking for candidates

Marta Balaga Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska – together with co-writer Piotr Litwin – started to work on the script of her first feature film “Silent Land” in 2016, and notes that since then, her film – which centers on the world’s response to migrants – has sadly become even more timely.Set in Italy, the slow-burning drama sees a couple whose summer holiday goes terribly wrong when Rahim (Ibrahim Keshk), an illegal immigrant hired to fix the pool in the house they paid for, suddenly dies.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentViaplay, NENT Group’s leading Scandinavian streaming service, is set to launch in five new markets: U.K., Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The company began expanding its international footprint last year with a rollout in the U.S.

Salma Hayek might seem like she's got it all, but a past interview reveals that she hasn't always been so together.It came in 2012, during an interview with now-defunct magazine, Lucky, in which Salma spoke out about her struggles with acne that meant her mental health was compromised.MORE: Salma Hayek mourns devastating death of family memberWATCH: Salma Hayek pole dances in the middle of a restaurant"This acne was so bad it sent me into severe, severe depression," she explained.

The initial findings of an anticipated study into the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine on children ages of 5-11 were released today, and the first results seem promising.

Behemoth are set to release a live album of their 2020 ‘In Absentia Dei’ livestream alongside a cut-out, build-at-home model of the actual church it was performed in.“Burn it down at your discretion,” read an accompanying statement.The four-part show saw Behemoth perform from within the ancient walls of an abandoned church in rural Poland and now the 19-song set is being released as a digital album as well as on triple vinyl.A digi-book will also feature videos of the entire show.

London. Back in the 1990s a friend planned to launch a chain of nail bars (at that time virtually non-existent here) like those on every street in his native Manhattan.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Leave No Marks” would be a more apt translation from the Polish title of “Leave No Traces,” referring as it does to a horrifying command from one police officer to another, heard early on in this marathon fact-based drama: “Hit the stomach so you leave no marks, not on the back.” They’re in the middle of administering a merciless, unprovoked beating — a hard rain of combat boots and handheld batons — to a very soft target in 18-year-old student Grzegorz Przemyk, holding

Arclight Films has sold Michael Lembeck’s comedy-drama Queen Bees to a host of international territories.

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's Senate voted on Thursday to reject a media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned television network's ability to keep broadcasting independent news that is often critical of the right-wing government.However, the Senate has no power to stop the bill altogether, as it will now return to parliament's lower house.

Marta Balaga Dedicated to the story that shook up Poland in 1983, when high-schooler Grzegorz Przemyk was beaten to death by militia, Venice’s main competition entry “Leave No Traces” is not your usual historical movie, argued helmer Jan P. Matuszyński during the press conference.“I see parallels between the case of Grzegorz Przemyk and the case of George Floyd,” he said.

Manori Ravindran International EditorPoland’s upper house of parliament has rejected radical amendments to the country’s media law that look to prevent non-European ownership of Polish media companies — a promising development for the likes of Discovery and its Polish business, TVN Group.In a vote on Thursday, the Senate moved to reject the bill, which is called “Lex TVN,” with 53 votes against Lex TVN, 37 against and three abstaining.

The haunting case of Polish student and poet Grzegorz Przemyk dominated the country’s national media throughout 1983. It divided Poland into an Us vs Them scenario as the nation was still in the grips of heavy Soviet influence and struggling to survive in a stratocracy.

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