The turn of October and November is the end of several festivals where you could see our animations. One of them was EUROPE, In Shorts: Escape in Great Britain, where Tomek Popakul’s “Acid Rain” was shown, or the Swedish REX Animation Film Festival with Julia Orlik’s “I’m Here” and Katarzyna Warzecha’s “We Have One Heart”. The Big Cartoon Festival is still in progress in Russia, where the jury will judge “Colaholic” by Marcin Podolec, “Such a Beautiful Town” by Marta Koch and “Vanilla/Whip” by Bogna Kowalczyk. The latter animation will also appear on the program of the Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation. The German festival will also include the “Portrait of Suzanne” by Izabela Plucińska and the “Portrait of a woman” by Natalia Durszewicz.
November will start spectacularly for Polish short films. At the Leeds International Film Festival, viewers will have a chance to see fourteen Polish productions. The competition includes “We have one heart” by Katarzyna Warzecha and “The Land Of Whim“ by Betina Bożek, while the non-competitive sections will include: “Creatures” by Tessa Moult-Milewska, “Fences“ by Natalia Krawczuk, “XOXO – kisses and hugs” by Wiola Sowy, “Locus” by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi, “Evening” by Izabela Plucińska, “Bernard” by Anna Oparkowska, “Three Women On a Bench“ by Karolina Borgiasz, “III” by Marta Pajek, “Squaring The Circle“ by Karolina Specht, “Bless You!” Paulina Ziółkowska, “The Land Of Whim“ by Betina Bożek and “Story” by Jola Bańkowska. You can read more about the event here.
At the same time, the Rencontres Cine Montage will start in France and the Dutch Mountain Film Festival in the Netherlands. At both events, Marcin Podolec’s “The Tough” will compete for the awards, and in the Dutch one, you will also be able to see “Wind. A Documentary thriller ” by Michał Bielawski. Meantime at Cork International Film will be showing Daria Kopiec’s “Your Own Bullshit” in Ireland, and Katarzyna Warzecha’s ‘We Have One Heart‘ will be shown at Romanian Animest – Bucharest International Animation Film Festival.
“The Vibrant Village” from the Hungarian Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will go straight to the German interfilm. Another edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAG festival will take place in Poland at a similar time. In the international competition, you will be able to see two Polish feature-length documentaries – “The Whale of Lorino” by Maciej Cuske and “Altered States of Consciousness” by Piotr Stasik. Their competitor will be the Polish co-production of “Bitter Love” by Jerzy Śladkowski. Maciej Cuske’s film will also be shown during the Italian Dei Popoli and the Festival Film Documenter in Indonesia.
Three Polish short animations were invited to the competitions of this year’s PÖFF Shorts. Estonian audiences will see “The Windows Of That House” by Urszula Domańska, “I’m Here” by Julia Orlik and “Observation Point” by Aleksander Józefczyk.
In November, the 27th edition of the Court C’est Court Short Film Festival will also take place, where “Bless You!” will be showcased. Paulina Ziółkowska. In Portugal, however, OLHO Animation Film Festival will feature “Story” by Julia Bieńkowska and “Tango Of Longing” by Marta Szymańska.
The second half of November is the moment when the next edition of the Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival will take place. During the Finnish event, viewers will see “19:91” by Emilia Śniegoska. Another important, if not the most important, point in the calendar of documentary fans is the IDFA holding company that started at that time. This year, the program includes several Polish films, more can be found here and here.
Two more French festivals will take place at the end of the month. During the Festival International Séquence Court-Métrage you will be able to see “Portrait of Suzanne” by Izabela Plucińska, and at Fête de l’anim “I am here” by Julia Orlik.
The last days of the month will belong to the French Poitiers Film Festival, where the “Halo Effect” by Patrycja Polskowska and the Greek Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People with the show “Family2” by Yifan Sun will compete for awards.
Barbara Rupik’s animation will have two chances for awards. “The Little Soul” will visit Phenomena Festival in Brazil and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF in Romania.