The selection of documentaries for the 24th International Documentary Film Festival IDFA has been announced. This year’s edition of IDFA attracted more than 3600 entries. 319 were selected for the festival’s programme, 8 of which are Polish.
Couch Fest Films is a unique festival. Unique are also the prizes that it awards. One of them - the Best Experimental Documentary Award – was given to Krzysztof Kadłubowski for his short film "Returns".
11th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" in Perm, Russia, came to an end. The winners have already been announced, and Polish documentary films are yet again among the best!
The screening at 28th Tehran Short Film Festival brought success to Bartek Żmuda and his “Barbican” that was awarded Best Fiction prize ex aequo with the Iranian “Bitter milk” by Nasser Zamiri. This is the first award for the film at the international festival.
Eleven films from six countries have been named as finalists for the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking. Among nominees there is one Polish documentary film – “Out of Reach” by Jakub Stożek.
On 18th October the 11th edition of Short Film Festival “Un festival c’est trop court” will be officially opened in French Nice. On organizer’s request Krakow Film Foundation prepared the programme “Carte Blanche Cracovie. The Best of Polish Shorts”, presenting eight short films most frequently screened and awarded abroad.
Fifteen Polish short films made their way to the competition at VINIUS FILM SHORTS, that will take place in Lithuania between 13th and 16th October. Precisely in one week the competition will take off setting five fiction films, four animations and six documentaries produced in Poland in the last year, into competition for the main prize.
The sixth edition of Romanian festival anim’est is going to be an excellent treat for everybody interested in Polish animated film. Our animations will be present not only in the competitive section but also in three retrospective screenings devoted both to the older films as well as those produced in the last few years.
Last Friday the 21st edition of International Short Film Festival “Message to Man” held in Petersburg from 23rd September came to an end. Among five Polish films screened in the competition, two were presented with the awards.
From 290 submitted films only 14 were nominated for The Golden Key founded by the city of Kassel in Germany. Daniel Zieliński’s documentary film will also be competing for the award that is given during the Dokfest festival.
On 24th September, after six days of screenings, the 17th edition of International Short Film Festival in Drama reached the end. The international jury presented the film “Sing me to sleep” by Magnus Arnesen with the Special Mention.
During the East Silver film market that takes place along with the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, Silver Eye awards are given for the best documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe. Polish productions will also take part in this year’s competition.
Applications for Euro Connection 2011, that will take place on Tuesday 31st January 2012 during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, are open. Applications have to be sent by 28th October.