On December 5th the BogoShorts Short Film Festival begins in Bogota. This year the festival will welcome a strong representation of 26 Polish movies: nine in the competition sections and the rest in the special Focus on Polish Docs programme.
On November 22, the award ceremony at the 30th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam was held. Two Polish documentary films: "Call Me Tony" by Klaudiusz Chrostowski and "Zhalanash - Empty Shore" by Marcin Sauter return from the festival IDFA with awards.
On November 19th the Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Hungary came to an end. Paweł Ziemilski notched up a success with his film ”Urban Cowboys".
On November 18th the official award ceremony of the 25th Camerimage International Film Festival took place in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The Golden Frog award of the Documentary Shorts Competition went to ”Zhalanash – Empty Shore” by Marcin Sauter.
"Call me Tony", feature-length documentary debut by Klaudiusz Chrostowski had its world premiere in main competition of DOK Leipzig. At IDFA it will compete in Competition for Student Documenary, Read what the director said about his reletionship with the main character of his film.
On November 12th the Film Court Festival in Brest came to an end. One of the festival awards went to a short film "Play-off" by Tomasz Gąssowski.
On November 10th the International Film Festival – Listapad has finished in Minsk. A little bit earlier the awards for different competitions were handed out, among them for the student competition in which Zofia Kowalewska's film ”Close Ties” was chosen the Best Film. "The Prince and The.Dybbuk" is the winner of the Diplomas Award in the Main Documentary Film Competition.
From November 14th film lovers in Kassel will have a chance to familiarize themselves a little bit more with Polish cinema. The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will host a screening of 6 short Polish documentaries.
On November 5th the closing ceremony of the Early Bird International Short Film Festival took place in Bulgaria. Two Polish shorts came back from Sophia with an award: ”Evil Deeds” by Piotr Domalewski and ”Dreaming of Warsaw” by Mateusz Czuchnowski.
The list of nominees for the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors has been announced. Among the films competing for an award there are two Polish ones: "Polonaise" by Agnieszka Elbanowska and "Communion" by Anna Zamecka, which is nominated in two categories.
On October 28th the IMAGO International Awards for Cinematography were handed out in Helsinki. A Polish representative among the winning films was "Icon", directed by Wojciech Kasperski, awarded for Łukasz Żal’s cinematography.
Last Sunday the 21st Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival came to an end. Polish film "Opera about Poland" by Piotr Stasik was among the winners.
Once again, Polish documentary film can boast a success at the East Silver Market, accompanying the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava. "Dust" by Jakub Radej won the Silver Eye award there.