Pro­mot­ing the latest Pol­ish cine­ma­to­graphy in the form of the col­lec­tion of films on DVD is more and more vis­ible. The per­fect example is the recently released DVD edi­tion “Pol­ish Docs 2010″, which appeared thanks to Krakow Film Foundation.

Fol­low­ing the example of the two DVD edi­tions “Pol­ish Shorts 2008″ and “Pol­ish Shorts 2009″ released dur­ing last two years, con­tain­ing the selec­tion of the latest from among the short film pro­duced in Poland, Krakow Film Found­a­tion pre­pared a sim­ilar com­pil­a­tion — “Pol­ish Docs 2010″ with Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cinema. 

The “Pol­ish Docs 2010″ DVD con­tains a selec­tion of the latest and the most inter­est­ing doc­u­ment­ary films, which were made in 2009 and 2010, hav­ing great inter­na­tional poten­tial, and begin­ning their inter­na­tional career at for­eign film fest­ivals. This pub­lic­a­tion came into being for the pro­mo­tion of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cine­ma­to­graphy among the inter­na­tional branch circle, inter­ested in this film genre.

As earlier, the DVD will be pro­moted for free by the coordin­at­ors of the pro­ject at the most import­ant for­eign fest­ivals and doc­u­ment­ary film mar­kets, and sent to the organ­izers of fest­ivals and cul­tural insti­tu­tions all around the world. The dis­tri­bu­tion will start at the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Mar­ket SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC in La Rochelle in France, where for sev­eral years Krakow Film Found­a­tion has been organ­iz­ing and run­ning the Pol­ish stand. The DVD will be also pro­moted, among other, at such import­ant fest­ivals as IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Doclis­boa, CPH:DOX, Doc/​Fest Shef­field, Doc­point Hel­sinki, Hot Docs, Sil­ver­docs, Vis­ions du Reel. 

The DVD was recor­ded thanks to the fin­an­cial sup­port of Pol­ish Film Insti­tute.

The com­pil­a­tion con­sists of 10 films:

- “Six Weeks” by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk

- “Chemo” by Paweł Łoziński

- “The Dog Hill” by Grzegorz Zar­iczny

- “A screen­ing at the Tatry Cinema” by Igor Cho­jna

- “That’s Life…” by Daniel Zieliński

- ” Let’s run away from her” by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka

- “Out of reach” by Jakub Stożek

- “Oh my God, dear God” by Julia Popławska

- “Lov­ers” by Rafał Skal­ski

- „H2O” by Tomasz Wol­ski


The DVD includes also a book­let with a text about con­tem­por­ary Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cinema and sum­mar­ies of each film. Many of the presen­ted films are the brand new one, premi­eres from the 50^th Krakow Film Fest­ival and awar­ded at this fest­ival, such as “Out of reach” by Jakub Stożek (The Golden Dragon), “A screen­ing at the Tatry cinema” by Igor Cho­jna (The Sil­ver Hobby-​Horse) and “The Dog Hill” by Grzegorz Zar­iczny (Woj­ciech Szu­mowski award).

More inform­a­tion at www​.pol​ish​docs​.pl
(09.06.2010)