With the search ongoing for a new director to lead the Polish Film Institute, following the departures last year of two institute heads in the span of just six months, Polish film professionals say their industry is at a crossroads.
First, the good news: Many of the industry’s heavyweights have hotly anticipated features lined up, including Academy Award winner Paweł Pawlikowski (“Ida”), who’s set to go into production on “Fatherland,” a biopic about German Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann, and three-time Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland (“Green Border”), whose Franz Kafka biopic is reportedly eyeing a fall festival berth.
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