“Twist and Blood” by Kuba Czekaj was selected as one of thirteen student short films that will be screened at International Film Student Meeting in San Sebastian between 21st and 23rd September.
After ten days of screenings on 13th August in Swiss Locarno the laureates of the 64th edition of the festival were finally announced. At the closing gala Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s film received the EFA nomination.
At 5th edition of the Sicilian short film festival Shortini, that came to an end on 7th August, “MC. Man of vinyl” by Bartosz Warwas was awarded a special mention in the international competition.
In the end of July, during the last days of 11th edition of New Horizons International Film Festival the audience chose the best short films of the competition.
The last weekend of July has proved extremely favourable for Polish documentary films. Our compatriots have won awards in Mexico, Kosovo, and… Wroclaw.
Robert Proch’s animation was selected to the competition of Ottawa International Animation Festival. The film, that was already screen in Canada at the turn of May and June at a fortunate Worldwide Short Film Festival, now will take part in the graduation film competition at Ottawa festival.
Glasgow directed by Piotr Subbotko has been awarded at the 8th International Film Festival Golden Apricot in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where it participated in the Short Film Competition. The film was produced as part of the 30 minutes programme, a joint initiative of the SFP Munk Studio, the Wajda School, TVP Kultura and the Polish Film Institute. The participation of this film in the competition was accompanied by a special screening of films from the Wajda School and Wojciech Marczewski's visit with his retrospective.
Those, who missed the chance of watching the best films shown at this year's Worldwide Short Film Festival will be given the opportunity of making up for that. Just like every year the organizors prepared a special screening dedicated to the winning films. There will be also a Polish feature in the programme.
46. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival came to an end along with great success of Polish director Marcin Koszałka whose “Declaration of immortality” won the Best Documentary Film Award.
Last Saturday, the 25 of June, the 9th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival in Balchik came to an end. Polish film “Mother” by Jakub Piątek was announced as the best documentary.
Last fortnight the achievements of Piotr Złotorowicz’s “Charcoal Burners” have grown thanks to another two prizes. So far there are 13 awards at this short documentary’s account!
The 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will screen 179 feature films, 54 debuts, 21 world premieres and 25 international ones. In the programme of this one of the most important film festivals in Europe there are also three Polish documentaries.