At the turn of November and December, the anniversary 20th edition of Plus Cameraimage festival takes place in Bydgoszcz. Among the competition documentary films at this edition there is as many as eight Polish films.
During the closing ceremony at the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, the Silver Eye awards were given. Polish documentaries triumphed, winning awards in two out of three competition categories.
In the Romanian city of Sibiu, the Astra Film Festival has just ended. The festival's Grand Prix was given to the picture by Paweł Kloc "Phnom Penh Lullaby."
Last Sunday in Padua, the award ceremony of the first edition of the Detour International Travel Film Festival 2012 took place. The award for the best film of the festival went to "Argentinian lesson" by Wojciech Staroń.
The recent festival favourite, 11-minute-long, documentary etude by Martin Rath, shown at over 70 festivals all around the world, got as many as two awards last week.
This weekend in Berlin, the Prix Europa festival starts, at which the awards for the best European radio, television and internet productions are given. In the television documentary category, two Polish films are nominated for the award: "Vera Gran" by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz and "Doctors" by Tomasz Wolski.
At the BARBAKAN festival in Slovakian Banská Bystrica, which ended last weekend, the students of the Łódź film school won unanimously in the short film competition.
25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival IDFA takes place from 14 to 25 November. Polish films are not missing from the festival's programme.
Yesterday evening, the 20th edition of Mountain Film Festival in Poprad came to an end. The documentary by Marcin Koszałka, shown in the competition section, was included among the award-winning films!
45 films sent to Belgrade from 21 countries were screened in the programme of this year's Serbian Balkanima. A special award, given annually to the best artistic school, this year went to Poland.
In Los Angeles, the 13th Polish Film Festival is being held. Last Tuesday, the documentary by Paweł Wysoczański "We will be happy one day" was awarded.
In so far as September was a good time for short film, in October the centre of gravity will move firmly towards animation.
Tomorrow, the third edition of the international festival Se-Ma-For Film Festival starts in Łódź. In the programme, there are a lot of attractions for fans of puppet and stop motion animation.