Polish Days 2026: Line-up announced

The 2026 edition of Polish Days will take place from the 26th to the 28th of July during the 26th TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival (July 23–August 2nd) in Wrocław. This year's event will feature 3 completed films, 8 works in progress, and 10 projects in development. Congratulations to all!

Projects selected for Polish Days 2026 

Completed films

• A Free Woman (Eliza Godlewska, Alan Ruczyński) 

• ÒPI (Marta Giec) 

• SICK (Agata Trzebuchowska)

Works in progress

• Black Water (Aga Woszczyńska) 

• Encounter (Krzysztof Komander) 

• Liquid States (Maria Wider) 

• Mother Daughter (Marta Ojrzyńska) 

• Radioamateur (Tomasz Habowski) 

• SHE (Agnieszka Zwiefka) 

• WANDA (Adrian Panek) 

• What Belongs to Others (Grzegorz Dębowski)

Pitches

• Excursion (Kei Ishikawa) 

• Lady Preachers (Natasza Parzymies) 

• POLKA (Kalina Alabrudzińska) 

• Soloist (Marta Prus) 

• The Calling (Filip Syczyński) 

• The End of the World (Tomasz Śliwiński) 

• The Neighborhood (Michał Chmielewski) 

• The Story of the House of Fiedler (Emi Buchwald) 

• The Tribe (Olga Chajdas) 

• TOXIC(Dawid Nickel)

As part of the event, industry representatives from around the world attend closed screenings to learn about the latest Polish films at every stage of production: they watch completed films and fragments at the post-production stage, and they also listen to pitches about projects in development. Polish Days provide an excellent opportunity for filmmakers to promote their projects and find foreign partners. During the selection process, the organizers choose the most interesting films currently being produced in the Polish market. Projects presented in past years have included Woman On The Roof, The Peasants, Bread and Salt, Corpus Christi, Sweat, Prime Time, Dolce Fine Giornata, The Last Family, among others.

We are delighted to yet again present the newest Polish Films to the international film industry guests. We are always thrilled to promote new voices and talents. This year we had over 90 submissions, out of which we selected 21 projects. We are very happy to have over 90 international guests confirmed, among them the festival programmers from Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Berlinale or Locarno,

comments Weronika Czołnowska – the head of industry events at the TAURON New Horizons IFF. 

Organized since 2012 in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the most important industry event at the TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival.

Event partners include Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Wroclaw Feature Film Studio, Wrocław Film Commission, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Łódź Film Commission,  Podkarpackie Film Commission, Silesia Film Commission, Gdańsk Film Fund, Kraków Film Commission, Poznań Film Commission, Mid March Media & The Bridge, MAKonLine Ubezpieczenia, PFX, NO PROBLEMO MUSIC, FIXAFILM, ORKA, ATM Grupa, DI Factory, Smart7.

This year's Polish Days event has been granted the Honorary Patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

The projects will have a chance to receive valuable awards funded by the partners: Mid March Media & The Bridge will support a project in development with an award of PLN 35,000, an insurance company MAKOnLine Ubezpieczenia will grant PLN 10,000 to a project in development, PFX will fund a cash award of EUR 2,000; NO PROBLEMO MUSIC will grant two Awards: an Audio Network all inclusive music license for the film and its promotional materials without time, territorial and media limitations and co-production input in the sound design worth PLN 75 000, Wroclaw Feature Film Studio will fund Award for production and post-production services worth PLN 100 000, FIXAFILM – Postproduction Award covering the costs of image post-production services up to PLN 30 000, ORKA - Postproduction Award also covering the cost of image post-production services up to PLN 30 000.

Media partners include Screen International, Cineuropa and Film & TV Kamera.