Wajda Film School turned 7 years old this year. Because of this, in Warsaw Kino Lab, there will be seven unique film screen­ings, present­ing the most inter­est­ing, the most fre­quently awar­ded films pro­duced by the School.

The dates of the screen­ings:

26.11; Thursday, 8:30 p.m.:
Take A Look, The Cure

27.11; Fri­day; 6 p.m. :
Calf ‚ Gadjo, Londek, Beau­ti­ful mis­un­der­stand­ing

27.11; Fri­day; 8 p.m.:
Lord of the Rims, Cup­board, Foot­ball Father

28.11; Sat­urday; 6 p.m.:
By the River, Getting-​on, Dir­ec­tion: Ice­land

28.11; Sat­urday; 8 p.m.:
Silence , Behind the Fence, The End of the Street 

29.11; Sunday; 6 p.m.:
PRL de luxe, At the datcha, Booth of for­tune

29.11; Sunday; 8 p.m.:
Andrzej Wajda: let’s shoot!, The Crew

Wajda Film School com­bines teach­ing with film pro­duc­tion – of doc­u­ment­ar­ies as well as feature-​films – act­ively sup­port­ing young, tal­en­ted authors. It oper­ates on the prin­ciple “from the idea to pro­duc­tion”: the course par­ti­cipants shoot their own films. It offers artistic and pro­duc­tion care at every stage of the film pro­duc­tion, provides optimal con­di­tions for cre­at­ive work and con­tact with the most import­ant people of today’s world cine­ma­to­graphy. Wajda’s School works also as an inde­pend­ent pro­duc­tion com­pany – mak­ing the débutantes’ and young pro­fes­sion­als’ films. At the 2008 Krakow Film Fest­ival the School received the Best Short-​Length and Doc­u­ment­ary Film Pro­du­cer Award.

The School has pro­duced sev­eral dozens of doc­u­ment­ary films, which have been shown at over 300 fest­ivals (among oth­ers, at Ber­linale, Cannes, IDFA, DOK­Leipzig, Clermont-​Ferrand) and fre­quently received awards: Grand Prix at the 2008 Aye Aye Film Fest­ival in France (“Gandjo” by Kryspin Pluta), the Best Doc­u­ment­ary and the Audience’s Award at 2008 GoE­ast Wies­baden in Gemany (“By the River” by Mag­dalena Kowal­czyk), the Best Doc­u­ment­ary Award at the 2007 Curta Cinema Inter­na­tional Short Film Fest­ival in Rio de Janeiro (“At the datcha” by Thi­erry Paladino), Grand Prix at 2005 Cinema du Reel in Paris (“Behind the Fence” by Mar­cin Sauter).

Among the lec­tur­ers and artistic tutors there are the most fam­ous and most exper­i­enced film-​makers, among oth­ers: Mar­cel Łoziński, Jacek Bławut, Vita Żelakevi­ciute, Andrzej Titkow.

(19.11.2009)