In the hot month of May, Polish documentary films do not travel through the world as much as they used to, however, they still have a chance to win some prestigious awards. See where the Polish productions appear this month.
This is the second award for "America" this month. This time, the film by Aleksandra Terpińska won in the short film category at the Sehsüchte festival.
From among several hundred Polish documentary, animated and short films, submitted to the festival, on the festival screens of Krakow, several dozen of the best films will be shown, made both by beginner film-makers as well as artists recognised in Poland and abroad.
From among several hundred Polish documentary, animated and short films, submitted to the festival, on the festival screens of Krakow, several dozen of the best films will be shown, made both by beginner film-makers as well as artists recognised in Poland and abroad.
The short documentary film "Snails" is among the award-winners of the festival Go Short, which ended last Sunday, April 10. The film by Grzegorz Szczepaniak won the audience's award.
Spring is favourable to Polish short films. This month, short films will appear, among others, at the festival Go Short in the Netherlands and at Mediawave in Hungary.
This month, we can expect the full bloom of festival screenings. Polish documentary films will appear, among others, at the festival Crossing Europe in Austria or at the prestigious Hot Docs in Canada.
13th edition of the Docudays festival in Kiev ended on March 31. The main awards went to the films "Call Me Marianna" by Karolina Bielawska and "The End of the World" by Monika Pawluczuk.
This year, in the competition sections at Oberhausen festival, 151 films produced in 39 countries will be shown. Two of them are Polish films.
On April 28, the International Documentary Film Festival "Hot Docs" in Canada starts. In the programme of this year's edition, there are four Polish documentary films: "Last Season" by Sławomir Witek, "Before the Dawn" by Łukasz Borowski, "Brothers" by Wojciech Staroń and "All these sleepless nights" Michała Marczaka. The project "Over the limit" by Marta Prus will participate in the pitching during the Hot Docs Forum.
Daniel Stopa: "Last Season" resembles documentary films made before the era of television. It is a film in which the image plays the key role in storytelling, there are no dialogues nor verbal commentary. Did you know from the beginning that it would be such a classic short documentary film?…
"Last Season" by Sławomir Witek resembles documentary films which were made before the era of television. This shorter than thirteen minutes miniature film is devoid of off-screen commentary, the words uttered in the film are only sounds which build a specific mood, do not form dialogues. All that is the most important in the film by Witek - emotions, mood - come to us through the image, a classic form, which was used by the masters of this genre.
Polish documentary film can boast successes at yet another mountain film festival. On March 13 ended the Dutch Mountain Film Festival, at which "The Place" by Julia Popławska was honoured with award.