A num­ber of spe­cial events will emphas­ise Wajda School’s activ­ity in the world of doc­u­ment­ary films: at the largest and one of the most renowned doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ivals around the world — IDFA in Ams­ter­dam, DOX Magazine as well as on the Doc Alli­ance Films website.

Dur­ing the 24^th edi­tion of IDFA in Ams­ter­dam, known as one of the most import­ant fest­ivals of doc­u­ment­ary films in the world, the Wajda School cel­eb­rated its 10^th anniversary on 19 Novem­ber. There was a spe­cial event — ‘Guests Meet Guests” — co-organised with the 5^th anniversary of Pol­ish Docs. Fur­ther­more, the doc­u­ment­ary ‘Paparazzi’ by Piotr Bernaś, which has been nom­in­ated for the European Film Academy Awards, will have its Dutch premiere at the IDFA Com­pet­i­tion in the Stu­dent Doc­u­ment­ary sec­tion. 


Attached to the winter issue of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Magazine ‘DOX’ will be a DVD with three great short doc­u­ment­ar­ies focused on life’s essen­tial ques­tions: free­dom, love, loneli­ness and get­ting old. ‘3 Days of Free­dom’ (2011), ‘Decres­cendo’, and ‘Dog Hill’ have been chosen spe­cially to cel­eb­rate the 10^th anniversary of the Wajda School, Poland. 


An import­ant point of the Wajda School’s anniversary will be an event organ­ised by Doc Alli­ance Films. On www​.dafilms​.com from 21 to 27 Novem­ber, the best ten doc­u­ment­ar­ies from the Wajda School will be avail­able for free: ‘Dog Hill’, by Grzegorz Zar­iczny, ‘Viva Maria!’ by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, ‘Black Daugh­ter’ by Anna Skorupa, ‘3 Days of Free­dom’ by Łukasz Borowski, ‘Decres­cendo’ by Marta Minorow­icz, ‘Rendez-​vous’ by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk, ‘Take a Look’ by Adam Palenta and one of the old­est doc­u­ment­ar­ies made at the Wajda School – ‘Silence I’ by Maciej Cuske, Robert Gliński, Edyta Wróblewska, Tomasza Wol­ski, Bartek Konopka and Mar­cin Bortkiewicz, as well as ‘Behind the Fence’ by Mar­cin Sauter. Dur­ing the week­end of 26 – 27 of Novem­ber there will be screen­ings of ‘Paparazzi’ by Piotr Bernaś, imme­di­ately after its premiere at the IDFA Fest­ival.


The next cel­eb­ra­tion of the Wajda School’s 10^th anniversary will be organ­ised at the Plus Camer­im­age Fest­ival in Bydgoszcz (26 Novem­ber to 3 Decem­ber) and as part of the Andrzej Wajda ret­ro­spect­ive ‘Andrzej Wajda – Known and Unknown’ in Ber­lin (2 to 30 Decem­ber).


More at: www​.waj​daschool​.pl.
(22.11.2011)