Three awards – including the top Grand Prix – were presented to Polish animated films during the Canadian Les Sommets du Cinéma d’animation that reached its end yesterday evening. The 13th edition of the festival was held between 27th November and 7th December.
It was on Saturday evening when Poles celebrated a great success during the closing of the 32nd edition of the Tous Courts Short Film Festival which was held in Aix-en-Provence. Three awards, including the Grand Prix, went to Polish films.
From today on the websites Polish Docs, Polish Shorts and Polish Animations devoted to documentary, short and animated films welcome visitors with the clean, uncluttered design. Apart from quite well known websites Polish Docs and Polish Shorts, that have now received the new structure, the third one, brand new – Polish Animations website – is introduced.
The jury of the IDFA festival announced the list of the films nominated for the awards in all the seven competitive sections. Polish-Danish coproduction “Something better to come” by Hanna Polak has been nominated in two of them: IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary and IDFA DOC U Award.
Two Polish animated films were listed among the laureates of the 56th edition of the Spanish ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao. The jury awarded “Baths” by Tomek Ducki and “Hippos” by Piotr Dumała.
The best film of the Short Documentary Film Competition is “Starting point” by Michał Szcześniak. The film was awarded with Golden Frog for the cinematography by Przemysław Niczyporuk. Andrzej Cichocki was awarded with the Silver Tadpole in the Student Etudes Competition for the cinematography to his own film “The shadow forest”.
Yesterday evening the 12th edition of the Hungarian Anilogue festival reached its end. Among the films acclaimed by the jury were two Polish animated films – “Baths” by Tomek Ducki and “Darling” by Izabela Plucińska.
Short animation by Tomek Ducki received another award yesterday evening. Film was picked up by the jury of UK’s Leeds International Film Festival. This is the sixteenth award the film scores.
Tomorrow in French Cabrieres d’Avignon the 21st edition of the Court c’est Court Short Film Festival will open. This year the organizers invited Krakow Film Foundation to share a Polish short film programme with the festival’s audience and guests.
It was on Sunday evening when the 30th, anniversary edition of Berlin based Interfilm short film festival reached the end. The Best Animation award went to “Baths” by Tomek Ducki.
„15 corners of the World”, the newest documentary by Zuzanna Solakiewicz received Special Mention at 16th International Film Festival Bratislava. The festival ended on Saturday, November 14th.
Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” ended last Saturday, November 14th. One of the award winners of the festival is “Deep love” by Jan P. Matuszyński. The film was awarded with a Diploma in the Documentary Films Competition.
Last weekend, Polish filmmakers won three awards, given by the jury of Spanish festivals. Award-winning films are "The Mother" by Łukasz Ostalski and "Games" by Maciej Marczewski.