On May 11^th in Spanish San­tiago de Com­postella the win­ners of the 9^th edition of Cur­tocir­cuito were announ­ced. The only Polish film in the com­petition – a documen­tary “The Fourth Man” direc­ted by Krzysz­tof Kasior received one of the top festival’s awards. (...)

Last week proved very for­tunate for Paweł Wysoczań­ski – the author of documen­tary “We will be happy one day”. Straight after the award for the best short film in Reykjavik, week­end brought another good news – the award at the Spanish DOCUMENTA MADRID. (...)

This Wednes­day the 11^th edition of the Icelan­dic Reykjavik Shorts­Docs Festival’12 came to an end. At the closing ceremony Paweł Wysoczań­ski – the author of documen­tary “We will be happy one day” was presen­ted one of the main festival’s award. (...)

Jih­lava Inter­national Documen­tary FF introduces new promotional and networ­king project for talen­ted producers from EU countries (...)

Only till tomor­row projects of documen­tary films can be sub­mit­ted to Dragon Forum 2012 Pit­ching! The event will take place during the Krakow Film Festival, from May, 30^th till June, 3^rd. Con­sidering the fact that the year 2012 is celebrated as the Chinese Year of Dragon and it will be the lucky, seventh edition of the Pit­ching, we expect it to be excep­tionally fruit­ful and successful! (...)

Last Friday the sixth edition of the Moun­tain Film Festival Domžale in Slovenia reached its end. Two Polish films were listed among the laureates. “The Art of Freedom” by Woj­tek Słota and Marek Kłosowicz and “Dec­laration of Immor­tality” by Mar­cin Koszałka scored two of the main festival’s awards. (...)

There is nobody to beat Polish documen­tary film­makers! Two Polish documen­taries were listed among the laureates of 9^th Inter­national Documen­tary Film Festival Docudays in Kiev scoring the two top prizes of the competition. (...)

We are opening the call for the pit­ching of documen­tary film projects, which will be held from 30 May till 3 June during the 52^nd Krakow Film Festival. The Dragon Forum will host TV stations’ com­mis­sioning editors, regional film funds’ represen­tatives, distributors and producers from around the world. (...)

Tomor­row in the evening the fourth edition of Dutch short film festival GO SHORT will kick off. This year proved extremely for­tunate for Polish films as eight titles were selec­ted to the festival’s com­petition. What’s more another five films will be screened in frame of the special programme POLISH SHORTS. (...)

Another inter­national suc­cess of Polish documen­tary film­makers — “Returns” by Krzysz­tof Kadłubow­ski wins the “Big Stamp” award while “Decrescendo” by Marta Minorowicz and “Paparazzi” by Piotr Ber­nas receive special men­tions at 8^th Inter­national Documen­tary Festival Zagreb DOX, that has just came to an end in the capital of Croatia. (...)

Visegrad Shorts on Tour opens the call for short films for the first edition of the travel­ling film festival devoted exc­lusively to films produced in Visegrad coun­tries. The author of the best film will receive 1000 euros and among other finalists will travel to four Visegrad coun­tries presen­ting his film on the festival tour. The deadline for sub­mis­sion is 23^rd March. (...)

On 18^th February the 15^th edition of Van­couver Inter­national Moun­tain Film Festival (VIMFF) came to an end. The only Polish film in the com­petition – “Dec­laration of immor­tality” by Mar­cin Koszałka was awar­ded one of the main festival’s awards. (...)

Three Polish films were selec­ted for this year’s programme of the American South by South­west Music and Film Festival. The festival, that is one of the big­gest and most impor­tant music festivals in US, apart from the abun­dant programme of music events every year hosts an impres­sive film selec­tion. During nine SXSW festival’s days 130 films produced all over the world will be screened in Texas. (...)

There is no doubt that last year was a favorable one for Polish documen­taries. There are not only spec­tacular inter­national suc­ces­ses but also a hun­dreds of screenings at the festivals worl­dwide to prove that. (...)