Poland’s Ministry Of Culture Dismisses Polish Film Institute Director Radosław Śmigulski
deadline.comPoland‘s Ministry of Culture has dismissed Radosław Śmigulski as director of the Polish Film Institute (PFI) in a move that has sent shockwaves across the local film industry even if it was not wholly unexpected.
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz announced Śmigulski’s dismissal in a press conference on Thursday.
Śmigulski was among three cultural institution directors and one research institute head, appointed under the rule of Poland’s former right-wing Law and Justice Party-led government, removed from their roles in the sweep.
The dismissals come amid a wider drive by centre-right Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s four-month-old government to restore the independence of state institutions that it says was eroded under the Law and Justice Party’s time in power.
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