The European Film Awards were given last Satur­day in Ger­man city Bochum. “Poste Restante” by Mar­cel Łoziń­ski was awar­ded the best short-​length film.

Fourteen-​minute-​long documen­tary “Poste Restante” is a story of a let­ter addres­sed to God. The let­ter reached the Unsent Mail Office in Koluszki. This sim­ple, but univer­sal story has already received several awards, among others: the Silver Dragon at Krakow Film Festival, and Jacek Petrycki – the film’s cameraman – got the Discovery Networks Cen­tral Europe Award for photography at the recent Camerimage festival.

“Poste restante” received the nomination for EFA from the European Film Academy represen­tatives at Krakow Film Festival. Łoziński’s film com­peted for the prize together with twelve other short films which received the nominations at European inter­national short-​length film festivals: in Ghent, Cork, Val­ladolid, Anger, Ber­lin, Tam­pere, Grim­stad, Edin­burgh, Krakow, Vila de Conde, Sarajevo, Venice and Drama.

It is worth men­tioning that “Poste restante” is not the only Polish element at this year’s European Film Award ceremony. It had an opponent in the short-​length film category – another Polish film: “Glass Trap” by Paweł Fer­dek.

Andrzej Wajda received the FIPRECI award for the feature-​film “Sweet Rush”(nominated in the category “the Best European Film” together with “33 Scenes from Life” by Mał­gorzata Szumow­ska.

The documen­tary by Mar­cel Łoziński was released on DVD and is still available to be bought in the on-​line shop www​.mer​lin​.pl

The film trailer can be wat­ched here
More about EFA 2009 prize-​winners here

(13.12.2009)