A winning streak that the documentary “Rogalik” has been enjoying for a couple of months seem to have no end. Last Friday the film scored the 1st prize of the European competition of the Spanish Alcine Short Film Festival.
The Camerimage International Film Festival starts tomorrow in Bydgoszcz. During this year’s 21st edition also Polish cinematographers will present their fiction and documentary films in the competition.
The 26th edition of the IDFA Festival starts on 20th November. Four Polish documentary films will be presented in Amsterdam. Daniel Stopa got the chance to talk to the directors of the films shown at IDFA.
The Jury of the Short Feature Competition at the 23rd FilmFestival Cottbus, which came to an end on 10th November, awarded the Main Prize to Maria Zbąska for her “Brother Dog”. The film was co-produced by the Munk Studio, which operates under the auspices of the Polish Filmmakers Association (PFA), and the Wajda Studio.
On November 8, the Award Ceremony of XX International Film Festival Listapad took place in Minsk. The most recent Paweł Łoziński’s documentary – “Father and Son” won Grand-Prix prize for the Best Documentary Film.
November, as every year, marks a peak of autumnal season. This month, Polish films will be presented at over 40 international film festivals. Ahead of us, there are over 70 screenings.
Long November evenings are just perfect to visit a cinema, which is why this month film festivals are organized all over the world. This year, more than fifty Polish films appeared in the programmes of over twenty November festivals.
The turn of October and November brought brand new awards to young Polish animators. Polish films were awarded in China two times over the past week.
The winning streak of the Polish documentary continues. This weekend two Polish productions were acknowledged at the DocsDF festival, the film “Entangled” by Lidia Duda was named the best television documentary and “God’s Lake” by Diana Aszyk the best short documentary film.
On Saturday evening awards ceremony of 56th DOK. Leipzig Festival was held on. Among the award-winning films, there was one Polish production - "Joanna" directed by Aneta Kopacz, which won the Prize of the Youth Jury.
Last weekend was yet another one, that brought awards to Polish films. Polish titles were acknowledged not only during the Ukrainian Molodist festival, but also at the CinEast festival in Luxembourg.
The film „I want (no) reality. Needcompany on Life and Art” by Ana Brzezińska has been awarded with Centre du Film sur l’Art Prize at the 13th Festival du Film sur l’Art that ended last week in Brussels.
Polish documentaries conquered the East Silver Market, winning two out of three main prizes. The best short film turned out to be the Polish-Cuban co-production “Previous Scenes” by Aleksandra Maciuszek. In the medium-length film category the winner was the film “Joanna” by Aneta Kopacz, and Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski’s “Art of Disappearing” received an honorary mention.