My friend Kamila has just told me about this extraordinary site, inspired by the Polish Film Institute’s commemoration of Polish cinema’s centenary (the first truly Polish film is believed to date from 1908).
I’ve only skimmed it so far, but it looks like a fascinating and valuable resource, consisting as it does of individual pages devoted to 130 separate films (presented chronologically from George Meyer’s 1908 Anton in Warsaw for the First Time/Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie to Waldemar Krzystek’s 2008 Little Moscow/Mała Moskwa), many with attachments including stills galleries, posters and video – the latter unsubtitled, unsurprisingly, but you get the general idea, and the text is at least bilingual in English and Polish. The films are also indexed by director, and three short essays by Rafał Marszałek supply historical context for the pre-war, post-war and post-1989 periods.