Published: 14 May 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
The 60-year-old, who won the best foreign language movie for Ida in 2015, told AFP on Friday that the film had been banned from being shown on television or in Polish cultural institutes abroad.
“The film is on a blacklist… There is now a blacklist of books, theatre directors and film-makers who must not be supported,” he said. “I have the honour to be on this list,” Pawlikowski said as his new film, Cold War, was premiered at the Cannes film festival.
His last film Ida became the target of attacks and a petition by the country’s Culture Minister Piotr Glinski, then in opposition, when it was nominated for an Academy Award.
The film about a young Catholic nun who learns she is a Holocaust orphan, touches on the killing of Jews during the Nazi occupation by Poles with whom they had sought refuge — a fact swept under the carpet for decades.
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Photo: Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski poses at the Cannes Film Festival (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
