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On September 10th during the 38th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia a ceremonial gala of Polish Film Institute Awards for the sixth time took place. The PFI Awards are the only Polish awards given for significant achievements in the dissemination and promotion of Polish cinema and for facilitating access to the Polish cinematography.

During the second instalment of the LET’S CEE Film Festival, a selection of around 50 extraordinary films from Central and Eastern Europe will be presented over a period of nine days, starting on September 13th. The organizers’ guest list features such prominent names as Academy Award winners Branko Lustig, Allan Starski and Istvan Szabo, as well as Russian virtuoso film director Alexander Sokurov.

Persian Salvation is a new documentary about Polish children who found themselves in Iran in 1942, together with General Władysław Anders’s army. The film was co-funded by the Polish Embassy in Tehran and will have its Warsaw premiere on 17 September.