Introduction - Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Elzbieta Ostrowska (University of Lódz, Poland) I: Broken voices 1. Broken careers: Re-writing the history of female film stars of the 1930s - Grzegorz Rogowski (National Film Archives, Poland) 2. Women's issues - women's solutions: Short student films by female students of the Lódz Film School - Paulina Kwiatkowska (University of Warsaw, Poland) 3. First-time women directors in Polish post-transformation cinema 1989-2005 - Magdalena Podsiadlo-Kwiecien (Jagiellonian University, Poland) II: Voices from the margins 4.Creative works by women in Polish animation - Hanna Margolis (Film School in Lódz, Poland) 5. Women of coal": post-war industrialization in films by female documentary filmmakers - Jadwiga Hucková (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 6. Cinema for children and young adults - female companionship and collaboration - Magdalena Walo (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 7. Janina Matejuk and Amateur Female Filmmakers in the AKF Movement" - Paulina Haratyk (Jagiellonian University, Poland) III: (In)dependent voices 8.

An actress's sovereignty: the emancipatory project of Lucyna Winnicka - Sebastian Jagielski (Jagiellonian University, UK) 9. Barbara Pec-Slesicka: In the Shadow of Andrzej Wajda - Malgorzata Radkiewicz 10. The 'Man of Providence' and his 'Secret Advisor': the collaboration of Andrzej Wajda and Agnieszka Holland - Elzbieta Ostrowska Bibliography Index.