The letter of intent tightens the Ministry’s current cooperation with TVP to promote Polish culture, cultural achievements and national heritage. The cooperation agreement is intended to make better use of both institutions’ potential to support our country’s brand-building abroad, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had an adverse effect on the activities of the MFA’s foreign missions.

As declared in the agreement, both entities will cooperate, among other areas, on promoting Poland’s presidency of the Visegrad Group, its UN Human Rights Council membership in 2020-2022, and the country’s activities within the UN in the context of the International Year of Peace and Trust (2021). Poland’s constitutional tradition will also be highlighted to celebrate the 230th anniversary of the Constitution of 3 May and the centenary of the March Constitution. Another purpose of the agreement is to facilitate the use of TVP’s footage and productions by the MFA’s foreign missions for distribution among foreign audiences. TVP will also take part in festivals and film showings abroad organised or co-organised by Polish Institutes and embassies.

The first project to be carried out under the agreement will be the “Let’s Go to a Polish Film” series to be aired by Croatia’s public broadcaster HRT. On 7 – 12 December, as part of Polish film days, the Croatian TV’s HRT3 channel will show such films as Paweł Woldan’s Powołanie [Vocation], Magdalena Łazarkiewicz’s Karski and Jasminum by Jan Jakub Kolski.

Photo: Tymon Markowski / MFA