Second Run

Capitalism and poverty have been tackled through the mediums of literature and film in many different ways over the years. The most famous writers to broach the subject are Charles Dickens and Emile Zola, but there are countless examples from Eastern Europe as well (Fyodor Dostoevsky immediately springs to mind). Władysław Rejment won the Nobel …

Documentaries are often seen as the poor cousin of narrative films. They are often overlooked in the main selection at film festivals and seldom win any of the main awards. Take Cannes Film Festival for instance. In 2012 Sophia’s Last Ambulance was only the second documentary to feature in its International Critics Week. It went …

Andrzej Wajda is a leading light of the Polish Film School and the most prominent Polish filmmaker. He’s received Academy Award Nominations for Best Foreign Language Film for The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko, Man of Iron, and Katyn, and was awarded an Honorary Oscar 1999. Man of Marble, and its sequel Man of …