The ninth edi­tion of Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Tir­ana brought first inter­na­tional suc­cess to doc­u­ment­ary etude by Piotr Sułkowski. Last Sat­urday six­teen minutes long “The Con­ver­sa­tion” scored the award for the Best Short Doc­u­ment­ary Film.

Piotr Sułkowski made his film at Pol­ish National Film Schol in Łódź where he is now study­ing film dir­ec­ton. “The Con­ver­sa­tion” is a doc­u­ment­ary story about two people who des­pite being strangers share a sim­ilar fate. Janusz is serving life impris­on­ment. Agnieszka was sen­tenced to 25 years in prison. They became acquain­ted eight years ago through let­ters they wrote. Until this film they have never seen each other before. 

This year three Pol­ish short films were screed in the com­pet­it­ive sec­tion of the fest­ival – apart from the above men­tioned “The Con­ver­sa­tion”, also “Glas­gow” by Piotr Sub­botko and “Bar­bican” by Bartek Żmuda were selec­ted. Pol­ish cine­ma­to­graphy marked its pres­ence also in the fea­ture full length com­pet­i­tion where ”Van­ish­ing” by Adam Uryniak was screened.

More inform­a­tion on fest­ival can be found here