On November 13, there was the Closing Gala of the International Film Festival "Listapad" in Minsk. Friday the thirteenth turned out to be lucky for Wojciech Staroń, who got the festival's Grand Prix for the film "Brothers," and for Aleksandra Maciuszek, the winner of the special mention for the film "Casa Blanca."
On November 27, starts the 56th edition of the festival Dei Popoli in Florence. During the event, Wojciech Staroń retrospective will be held, as well as the director's master class.
The BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival ended. The Best Feature-Length Mountain Film Award went to Eliza Kubarska for her documentary film "K2. Touching the Sky."
Jerzy Kucia received two prestigious Gold Panda award at the 13th edition of Sichuan TV Festival. His "Fugue for cello trumpet and landscape" was nominated in three categories.
Today starts the CPH:DOX Festival. In NORDIC:DOX competition, there is the Polish-Icelandic production "Grace of God," directed by Kristján Loðmfjörð. We would like to invite you to read the interview with the director and review of the film.
Almost the entire film by Kristján Loðmfjörð "Grace of God" consists of "talking heads," extraordinary stories, which are intimate confessions to the director. There are only a couple of scenes which reveal to us the landscape of north-eastern Iceland, but when they do appear, they have some kind of unique power and strength, exactly what the characters often mention.
In November, Polish documentary films will appear, among others, at the festivals CPH:Dox in Denmark, Cottbus in Germany as well as at many international mountain film festivals.
The documentary film by Paulina Skibińska was appreciated by the members of the International Documentary Association IDA. The film is nominated for the IDA Awards in the short film category.
In November, in Moscow and Kazan, the Polish Doc Days festival will be held, organised by Polish Institute in Moscow. Within the frames of the event, Polish documentary films will be shown, made both by the masters and by young beginner film-makers. Krakow Film Foundation is the co-organiser and partner of this event.
In recent months, the documentary film by Paweł Wysoczański has been successful at many international festival. Soon, the film "Jurek" will be shown during screenings in the United States and Canada.
On November 1, ended the 58th edition of the DOK.Leipzig festival. The Main Award in the International Competition went to Wojciech Staroń for the film "Brothers." But that is not all!
Two Polish films were awarded at the Molodist film festival, which ended last Sunday in Kiev. "Pinky" by Tomasz Cichoń won the Best Film in the International Short Competition award, and "Milky Brother" by Vahram Mkhitaryan – the Special Award of the Jury.
Polish documentary film can boast a success at the East Silver Market, accompanying the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava. Two Polish productions were given the Silver Eye Awards there.