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Boom in film production

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Even though audience figures for the 2006-2007 period are not particularly revealing (+ 600,000 viewers), this was nonetheless a year of growth for Polish cinema.

The upturn is more noticeable in the field of production: in Poland in 2007, 50% more films were produced than in 2006 (a total of 39 productions, including nine co-productions, compared to 26 in 2006).

This growth is for the most part due to the film law adopted in August 2005 and the creation of the Polish Film Institute (PISF), which has provided regular financial support for domestic films.

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The changes in public funding are considerable. Suffice it to compare the current figures with those of the final years of the former National Film Production Agency: while the latter only granted €5.3m for production in 2004, the new Institute allocated €17.3m in 2007.

Investment from television networks is not negligible. Canal+ – who, after TVP (the Polish state television network), has for the past few years been the main financer of Polish film – has doubled its funding (from €1.6m in 2006 to €3.1m in 2007).

In 2007, Canal+ invested in only four auteur films, including Andrzej Jakimowski’s Tricks [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Andrzej Jakimowski
interview: Tomasz Gąssowski
film profile
]
and Dariusz Jablonski’s Strawberry Wine.

TVP – who in 2007 invested an amount similar to that of the previous year (€3.38m in 2007 compared to €3.16m in 2006) – contributed to the production of 16 films. These included both arthouse titles (Dorota Kedzierzawska’s Time To Die, Robert Glinski’s Benek) and more commercial films (Wojciech Adamczyk’s Ranczo Wilkowyje, Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Andrzej Wajda
interview: Michal Kwiecinski
film profile
]
) as well as children’s films (Polish/German/French co-production Little King Macius by Sandor Jesse and Lutz Stutzner, Andrzej Maleszka’s The Magic Tree).

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(Translated from French)

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