On Saturday, the 21st of November, Animated Dreams revealed the winners of this year’s edition during an official closing ceremony. One of the awards of the Estonian festival went to "Fugue for cello, trumpet and a landscape" by Jerzy Kucia.
On November 21, there was the festive closing gala of the 23rd edition of the International Film Festival Camerimage. Special Mention in the Feature Length Documentary Film Competition went to the film "Brothers" by Wojciech Staroń.
Two out of three awards in the Student Etudes Competition at the Camerimage International Film Festival went to the productions by the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice. The Golden Tadpole was presented to Bartosz Bieniek for the cinematography in the film "America" by Aleksandra Terpińska, and the Bronze Tadpole went to Damian Kocur for cinematography in his own film "What I Want."
The Polish-Armenian film "Milky Brother" by Vahram Mkhitaryan was appreciated by the jury of the 37th International Film Festival in Cairo. The film was given a Special Mention in the short film competition "Cinema of Tomorrow."
In November, Polish animated films will be present at large and prestigious film festivals. This month, screenings at over 20 festivals are in store for us.
The documentary film by Teresa Czepiec is the winner of the ALCINE45 Award for the best European short film.
In the competition sections of this year's Camerimage festival, there are seven Polish short films. In addition, Polish short films will be screened in an special programme of the best films from the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice, in Special Screenings and within the frames of Marcel Łoziński retrospective.
On November 13, there was the Closing Gala of the International Film Festival "Listapad" in Minsk. Friday the thirteenth turned out to be lucky for Wojciech Staroń, who got the festival's Grand Prix for the film "Brothers," and for Aleksandra Maciuszek, the winner of the special mention for the film "Casa Blanca."
On November 27, starts the 56th edition of the festival Dei Popoli in Florence. During the event, Wojciech Staroń retrospective will be held, as well as the director's master class.
The BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival ended. The Best Feature-Length Mountain Film Award went to Eliza Kubarska for her documentary film "K2. Touching the Sky."
Jerzy Kucia received two prestigious Gold Panda award at the 13th edition of Sichuan TV Festival. His "Fugue for cello trumpet and landscape" was nominated in three categories.
Today starts the CPH:DOX Festival. In NORDIC:DOX competition, there is the Polish-Icelandic production "Grace of God," directed by Kristján Loðmfjörð. We would like to invite you to read the interview with the director and review of the film.
Almost the entire film by Kristján Loðmfjörð "Grace of God" consists of "talking heads," extraordinary stories, which are intimate confessions to the director. There are only a couple of scenes which reveal to us the landscape of north-eastern Iceland, but when they do appear, they have some kind of unique power and strength, exactly what the characters often mention.