On 10^th Decem­ber the 29^th edi­tion of Inter­na­tional Short Film Fest­ival Tous Courts in Aix-​en-​Provance came to an end. At the Saturday’s clos­ing gala two Pol­ish films scored the awards.

This years’ edi­tion of the fest­ival screened films pro­duced in more than forty coun­tries. Films selec­ted to the inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tion were chosen from nearly 1700 entries. The final pro­gramme announce­ment revealed that six Pol­ish films were accep­ted to the group of 59 com­pet­i­tion films – “Heroic Par­rot with the Dog” by Mar­cin Sławek, “Mill­haven” by Bartek Kulas, “Bar­bican” by Bartek Żmuda, “Play with me” Piotr Sułkowski, “The last day of sum­mer” by Piotr Stasik and “Glas­gow” by Piotr Sub­botko. On 10^th Decem­ber the last two titles from above men­tioned were awarded.

Last Sat­urday “Glas­gow” by Piotr Sub­botko pro­duced in the frame of “30 minutes” pro­gramme by Munk Stu­dio, Wajda Stu­dio and TVP received the Spe­cial Jury Prize. ‘Glas­gow’ is the story of a 12-​year-​old boy Damian, who is con­vinced that his father is a well-​known foot­ball player in the club Celtic Glas­gow. Dur­ing the hol­i­days, the boy tries to earn enough money to afford a trip to Scot­land, so he helps a retired man Miecio in house­hold repairs. He falls in love with a 15-​year-​old preg­nant girl Monika, wants to take care of her child and take both of them to a bet­ter world. Subbotko’s film was so far awar­ded at Rus­sian “Mes­sage to Man”, Armenian “Golden Apricot” and fest­ival in Cot­tus in Germany.

“The last day of sum­mer” by Piotr Stasik was awar­ded “Onda curta” Prized handed by Por­tuguese broad­caster RTP2. The film pro­duced by TVP SA and Cent­rala Film gives an insight into the con­tem­por­ary Rus­sia through the obser­va­tion of young stu­dents and their every­day life at cadet school in Penza 700 km away from Moscow. The dir­ector picks up few char­ac­ters, show­ing how much their stay at school influ­ences their lives, how their per­son­al­it­ies change, dis­cov­ers what are they hopes and dreams. The school is being shown as a respect­able insti­tu­tion that in some way, puts an end on its stu­dents bliss­ful child­hood. In recog­ni­tion of his cine­matic work Stasik received the Golden Frog award at last years Plus Camer­im­age FF. IN 2011 “The last day of Sum­mer” was awar­ded at goE­ast in Ger­many and at Rus­sian “Flahertiana”.

Com­plete jury’s ver­dict can be found at the offi­cial festival’s website