Polish Culture Minister Piotr Glinski denies an allegation by Oscar-winning film director Pawel Pawlikowski that Poland’s right-wing government has a “blacklist” of artists.
“The most complete freedom of creation rules in Poland,” Glinski tweets, adding “I wish Polish artists success at Cannes, and not only at Cannes.”
Pawlikowski, 60, who won the best foreign-language movie Oscar for “Ida” in 2015, told AFP at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday that the film had been banned from being shown on television or in Polish cultural institutes abroad.
Glinski, who is also deputy prime minister, tweeted, “There is no blacklist of artists in Poland, and the culture minister has never accused Mr. Pawlikowski of anything whatsoever.”
“Ida,” 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.
The film became the target of attacks and a petition by Glinski, then in opposition, when it was nominated for an Academy Award.
— AFP
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