“CHEMO” NOMINATED FOR GRAND PRIX AT THE PARNU FILM FESTIVAL

On 11TH July, the 24th edition of the International Film Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, began. In the competition program there are seven Polish documentaries, among them “Chemo” by Paweł Łoziński, nominated for the Grand Prix, that is, the main prize of the festival given by the international jury.

The film fes­ti­val in Pärnu, or­ga­nized since 1987, is the old­est and largest fes­ti­val in Es­to­nia, pro­mot­ing only doc­u­men­tary cin­ema – but di­verse and vivid the­mat­i­cally. For sev­eral years, Pol­ish films have been present at the fes­ti­val. Even more, some of them got the high­est lau­rel given by the in­ter­na­tional jury, the Grand Prix, among oth­ers, in 2008 – “Gu­gara” by An­drzej Dy­bczak and Jacek Nagłowski, in 2007 – “The Seeds” by Wo­j­ciech Kasper­ski, and in 2002 – “I will not leave you until I die” by Ma­ciej Adamek.

At this year’s festival in Pärnu, “Chemo” by Paweł Łoziński is among three films nom­i­nated to the Grand Prix. Apart from the Pol­ish rep­re­sen­ta­tive, the fol­low­ing films will com­pete for the award: Finnish “Stream of Life” by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Ho­takainen and “The Fam­ily En­sam­ble” by Wilko Bello from the Nether­lands. The de­ci­sion con­cern­ing the win­ner of the award will be an­nounced on Sun­day, 18th July, dur­ing the clos­ing cer­e­mony.

In addition, the following six Polish documentaries will be shown at the Estonian festival, taking part in the competition program: 

– Side-​Track, by Anna Kaze­jak
 

– Six Weeks, by Marcin Janos Kraw­czyk

– Andrzej Wajda: Let’s shoot!, by Maciej Cuske, Thierry Paladino, Marcin Sauter, Piotr Stasik

– The Lucky Ones, by Tomasz Wolski

– Chasm, by Wojciech Kasperski

– Charcoal Burners, by Piotr Złotorowicz


More in­for­ma­tion on the fes­ti­val’s web­site.