„FROZEN STORIES” RECEIVES A SPECIAL MENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS

During the yesterday’s closing of the fourth edition of the short film festival GO SHORT in Dutch Nijmegen, Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s graduation film received the special mention. The award for the graduate of Polish National Film School in Łódź came up as a perfect crowning of the fact that Poland was this year’s guest country at the festival.

Five Polish films were selected to the Breaking Ground competitive section that screens student films made all over the Europe. Among the 20 titles listed in the programme one could easily trace some Polish entries – starting from documentary “38,5” by Grzegorz Dębowski – that on Saturday morning received the nomination for the best student film, and “Written in Ink” by Martin Rath, fiction “Frozen Stories” by Grzegorz Jaroszuk – all made at Polish National Film School in Łódź, animated “Gallery” by Robert Proch – a graduate of University of Arts in Poznań ending with “The Fourth Man” by Krzysztof Kasior produced at of Radio and TV Department of the Silesian University. Meanwhile, the International Competition will present “Returns” by Krzysztof Kadłubowski – recently awarded in Zagrzeb -, “Ritual” by Zbigniew Czapla and “The Lost Town of Świteź” by Kamil Polak.

 

“Frozen stories” is the grotesque tale about the young girl and boy who work at the same supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives and in just two days start a better, brand new life. All of the sudden a popular television show aims to help them to complete the task. The film is a perverse story, set at the background of the coolest supermarket’s corners,  that shows the deep loneliness of two outsiders and their desperate struggles to escape from lives they used to live.

 

A run of good luck continues for „Frozen Stories”. In April the film by Grzegorz Jaroszuk will be screened in the competitive sections of another six festivals – Film Fest Dresden, Washington DC Independent FF, Nashville FF, Gulf FF, Kyiv International Short FF i  Tel Aviv Student FF.


Over the five festival’s days in three competitive section of GO SHORT there were 120 films screened.

The complete list of awarded films can be found at the official festival’s website