The titles of the films qualified for the NORDIC:DOX competition have been announced. Among 12 competing Nordic films, there is also the Polish-Icelandic production "Grace of God," directed by Kristján Loðmfjörð.
The jury of Serbian Balkanima European Film Festival, that came to an end last weekend chose to award two Polish animated films. "A blue room" by Tomasz Siwiński and "Summer 2014" by Wojciech Sobczyk received Special Mentions.
On October 10, the Award-Ceremony at the 22nd edition of the Astra International Film Festival was held. One of the statuettes went to the short documentary film "Super Unit" by Teresa Czepiec.
Five Polish documentary films qualified for the participation in this year's edition of the IDFA festival! Two films will compete for the awards in the competition sections, and three will be presented in the non-competing thematic sections.
October is full of film festivals at which Polish productions are not missing. This month, Polish documentary films will be shown, among others, at DocumentArt in Germany, Hot Springs in the USA and DocsDF in Mexico.
Good news from Armenia. The documentary film by Monika Pawluczuk, "When I am a Bird," was awarded the Grand Prix at the Apricot Tree International Ethno Film Festival.
25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival "Message to Man" turned out to be very lucky for Polish documentary films. Four Polish productions were awarded.
The latest films by Tomek Ducki ("Baths") and Piotr Dumała ("Hippos") are among the most popular festival films of the past year. Late September both films scored awards at festivals KROK and 2Annas.
The documentary film by Michał Szcześniak was appreciated once more. This time, it was given a special mention at the film festival in Budapest.
The film by Aleksandra Maciuszek won two awards at the recently finished Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, including the Best Feature-Length Documentary Film award.
This year, forty seven films produced or co-produced in Poland will participate in the East Silver Market. Eight of them were nominated for the Silver Eye awards for the best documentary films of the market.
"Jurek" by Paweł Wysoczański achieved new successes. The film won the main award at the Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice, the Czech Republic, and two awards at Mountain Film Festival in Lądek Zdrój.
The programme of Icelandic RIFF – Reykjavik International Film Festival – features a special event devoted to Polish animated film. The meeting "Polish Animation Now" was organized by the joint efforts of RIFF organizers and Culture.pl.