ANIMATED FILM FESTIVALS IN AUGUST
This month, intensive festival traffic quietens down a bit, however, Polish animated films will be included in the catalogues of film festivals in Kosovo, Austria and Italy.
This month, intensive festival traffic quietens down a bit, however, Polish animated films will be included in the catalogues of film festivals in Kosovo, Austria and Italy.
The film by Adam Palenta was chosen the best short documentary at the Faito Doc Festival.
The animated film "under_construction" by Marcin Wojciechowski won the Golden Unicorn award at the Alpinale Short Film Festival in Austria. The closing ceremony and the awards ceremony was held on August 15.
The film "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska won two awards at the Italian film festival La Guarimba. The film was chosen the Best Fiction of the festival, and won the Best Cinematography Award for the camera work by Bartosz Świniarski.
KODAK Scholarship Program are awards dedicated to film school students from around the world. This year, Paulina Skibińska with her film "Object" was among the awarded film-makers.
On August 15, ended the 68th Locarno International Film Festival. As many as two Polish documentary films, which appeared in the competition La Semaine de la Critique, return from Switzerland with awards.
On Saturday, August 1, we learnt the names of the winners of the 15th International Film Festival T-Mobile New Horizons. Among the winners, there are seven Polish films.
On July 19, ended the 14th Euganea Film Festival. "A Diary of A Journey" by Piotr Stasik was chosen the best international documentary film.
68th edition of International Film Festival in Locarno starts on August 5. In the programme there are three Polish documentary films:
In spite of holiday season, this month Polish animated films have a chance to win more festival awards. In July await us almost 40 screenings, which will be held at twelve film festivals.
This year, the 29th edition of the Pärnu International Documentary and Antropology Film Festival was held in Pärnu. Three Polish films returned from Estonia with awards: "Something better to come", "The Shepherd's Song" and "Invisible".
The documentary film by Paulina Skibińska won yet another festival award. This time, it is the jury's special mention at the Art Film Fest in Teplice, Slovakia.
This year, two Polish films are among the award-winners of the Bulgarian International Short Film Festival In the Palace. "Such A Landscape" by Jagoda Szelc was chosen the Best Fiction Film of the festival, and the film "Invisible" by Zofia Pręgowska was given Special Mention on Documentary.