21^st Pol­ish Film Fest­ival in Amer­ica ended in Chicago. This is one of the greatest film events abroad, pro­mot­ing Pol­ish cine­ma­to­graphy. In seven cinemas of the Chicago met­ro­polis there were screen­ings of 70 anim­a­tions, doc­u­ment­ar­ies and feature-​films.

At the clos­ing cere­mony, the audience’s jury, presided by Gor­don Alez Quinn, gave the Golden Teeth award. The main prize for the most inter­est­ing doc­u­ment­ary film went to Bar­tosz Konopka’s “Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” for “a great idea and an ori­ginal, humor­ous approach to the con­tem­por­ary history.”

Leszek Gnoiński and Woj­ciech Słota’s film “Beats of free­dom” was given the jury’s spe­cial award for “a pion­eer­ing present­a­tion of the Pol­ish rock music phe­nomenon and acknow­ledging its role in oppos­ing the com­mun­ist regime.”

The audience’s jury emphas­ised in its ver­dict the excep­tion­ally high artistic qual­ity of the films shown at the 21^st Pol­ish Film Fest­ival in America.

All awar­ded films and the most pop­u­lar pic­tures chosen in the poll among the audi­ence will be presen­ted on spe­cial screen­ings in the com­ing days.

(23.11.2009)