Over 170 films from all around the world, the film market, pitching forum, workshops, international conferences–this is only the outline of the Hot Docs programme, which will be held at the turn of April and May 2011. The big news is that there are Polish documentaries in the varied programme of films produced in all corners of the globe!
The 17th edition of the festival that that is one of the leading European documen¬tary film events film events—Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland–will be held in the first part of April. There will be three Polish titles screened in the competition. One of them will celebrate its world premiere, the other one–international premiere.
Last Saturday in Oulu, Finland the 4th edition of MusiXine International Music Film Festival came to an end. Among nine music documentaries taking part in the competition Polish “Beats of Freedom” - a story about Polish rock music–was announced the best one!
Last weekend was marked by Polish documentary’s successes abroad. On Sunday Marcin Koszałka was awarded in Tampere, Finland, and what is more, Piotr Złotorowicz collected awards once again – this time at two overseas festivals.
Seven Polish animation films have been selected along with 200 other titles that will form the programme of the most prestigious festival dedicated to animation production in Europe. 35th edition of International Animation Film Festival will be held in french Annecy between 6th and 11th June.
The last weekend occured to be amazingly successful for Piotr Złotorowicz and his documentary etude “Charcoal Burners” – the film was awarded at two festivals: in Zagreb as well as in New Mexico!
Last year’s success of Wojciech Kasperski and his “Chasm” at the festival in Zagreb has been repeated this year. The “Little Stamp” award went to Piotr Złotorowicz for his film “Charcoal Burners”.
The biggest European festival dedicated to short cinema – International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand – came to an end with a spectacular success of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing graduate, Marta Minorowicz. Her documentary “A Piece of Summer” – as the sole Polish film taking part in the competition – was awarded the main prize.
Nine Polish documentaries will compete for the „Big Stamp” at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox. The Croatian festival starts 27 February.
Awards for short films at Sundance Film Festival had been handed out. Our sole reprezentant in the competition - „Out of reach” directed by Jakub Stożek – was given a special mention.
Tomasz Wolski’s „The Lucky Ones” starts the new year by collecting next awards. The film has been acclaimed as the best documentary at the recently finished 2011 Flickerfest Short Film Festival in Sydney.
More than 450 screenings, including 250 competition screenings, of which 45 turned out to be successful by bringing filmmakers numerous awards gives a proper illustration for Polish Short Films’ (fiction films, documentaries and animations) presence at international film festivals.
The biggest feast for all short film lovers will start at the beggining of February in French Clermont-Ferrand. Polish short films are going to mark their presence in France by several various ways.