Six Polish films in the competition, a review of Polish Puppet Animation and the programme of Polish Docs on the DOK Market are the most important Polish features at the approaching 55th edition of the DOK Leipzig festival.
International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava starts on 23 October. Within the frames of the festival, the 9th edition of the East Silver Market fair, in which several dozen Polish films take part, will be held. As many as 9 of them are nominated to Silver Eye award.
This year's 22nd edition of the Russian festival "Message to Man" ended last weekend in St. Petersburg. This year also, the festival brought awards to Poles!
Last Saturday the 18th edition of Swedish Lund Fantastik Film Festival reach its end. Przemysław Adamski’s animation scored the top prize of the short film competition.
At the Nordisk Panorama film festival, which just begins, there are a lot of Polish features. Apart from a numerous representation of Polish film producers who come to the accompanying forum, the Scandinavian viewers will have a chance to watch some Polish documentary films, as well as listen to a lecture on the Oscar-winning "Rabbit a la Berlin."
Krakow Film Foundation has started its new project: Krakow Film Market Online. Currently, there are already more than 70 newest Polish films available!
September festival screenings will surely bring Polish filmmakers new chances of winning awards and distinctions. Apart from the competition section, this month one can see Polish films on several special screenings.
In September, Polish documentary films appear on the screens of festival cinemas all around the world. Viewers at twenty four festivals will see thirteen films.
The last week of August brought more awards for our young filmmakers. At the festivals in Slovakia and Italy two fiction shorts were awarded - "Frozen Stories" and "Glasgow."
This year, for the second time in a row, Locarno Film Festival proved favorable to Polish short films! Last Saturday “Battleheart” by Tomek Matuszczak, screened in the competitive Pardi di domani section was awarded a special mention.
This evening, simultaneously in Poland and Slovenia, two screenings of animated films organized by the Stoptrik Festival will take place. The audience in Maribor will watch the programme entitiled Between the Frames // Krakow Film Foundation presents: New Trends of Polish Animation, while the Łódź animation lovers will check the films awarded last year in Maribor.
Although the weather outside is warm, nice and perfect for the holiday’s waste of time, Polish short films are constantly on the festival’s tournee and don’t seem to slow down even a bit. This month one can track Polish titles in the catalogues of more than 20 film festivals taking place around the world!
The winners of the short film competition of this year’s T-mobile New Horizons are announced! On Sunday evening the international jury announced the verdict and decided to award films directed by Grzegorz Zariczny, Marcin Filipowicz and Marta Szymańska.