Lately, the doc­u­ment­ary “The Lucky Ones” by Tomasz Wol­ski, fre­quently awar­ded at fest­ivals in Poland and abroad, won new laurels – this time at the most import­ant film events in North America. 

Dur­ing the award cere­mony at the Film Fest­ival in Los Angeles the doc­u­ment­ary “The Lucky Ones” was chosen the best short-​​length doc­u­ment­ary film. The jury appre­ci­ated the fact that by the means of lyr­ical scenes depict­ing the every­day life in Pol­ish town coun­cil, the dir­ector reveals the quint­essence of human life: birth, mar­riage and death. 

At the Palm Springs Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival, which fin­ished on 28^th June, the film “The Lucky Ones” also received the spe­cial award – “for trans­form­ing the routine and bur­eau­cratic pro­ced­ures into a defi­ant, but at the same time mov­ing pic­ture of human life”.

Both fest­ivals are among the most import­ant film events in North Amer­ica. The fest­ival in Los Angeles presen­ted over 200 films from approx­im­ately 40 coun­tries. The audi­ence had the oppor­tun­ity to get acquain­ted with diverse cine­ma­to­graphy – from fea­ture films through short films, to doc­u­ment­ar­ies and video-​​clips. The Fest­ival in Palm Springs, on the other hand, is focused only on short films. Dur­ing this year’s edi­tion 314 films from sev­eral dozen coun­tries were shown. 

In the near future, “The Lucky Ones” will be shown to the audi­ence at, among oth­ers, Parnu Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Esto­nia and OFF Inter­na­tional Short Film Fest­ival in Dan­ish Odense. 

Detailed inform­a­tion on the fol­low­ing websites: 

www​.tomasz​wol​ski​.com

www​.LAFilm​Fest​.com

www​.psfilm​fest​.org