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June 2010
24.06.2010

“War Games and The Man Who Stopped Them” in the pres­ti­gi­ous Front­line Club in London

“War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them” was shown in May at one of the biggest doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ivals Hot Docs, Toronto. In June the pres­ti­gi­ous Front­line Club in Lon­don shows selec­ted pro­duc­tions from the fest­ival at spe­cial screen­ings with the pres­ence of dir­ect­ors who are invited to meet with the audience. (...)
23.06.2010

POL­ISH FILMS AT THE FEST­IVAL IN KAR­LOVY VARY

With the fea­ture films by Borys Lankosz (“Reverse”) and by Paweł Sala (“Mother Teresa of Cats”) at this year’s 45th Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­lovy Vary, two Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown: “Beats of Free­dom” by Woj­ciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński and “The Prom­ised One” by Lesław Dobrucki, who will com­pete for the main prize in the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Competition.  (...)
18.06.2010

POL­ISH FILMS AT THE INTER­NA­TIONAL FILM FEST­IVAL IN MOSCOW

The one of the largest in Rus­sia and one of the most import­ant on the world film event, namely the 32nd Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Moscow has just begun. Sev­eral Pol­ish films are in the pro­gramme, rich and diver­si­fied as far as sub­jects and genres are con­cerned. The fest­ival audi­ence will have an oppor­tun­ity to get acquain­ted with the fre­quently awar­ded doc­u­ment­ar­ies, as well as with fea­ture films – short and long ones. (...)
11.06.2010

THE CALL FOR SUB­MIS­SION TO MEETMARKET

Meet­Mar­ket is the pitch­ing ini­ti­at­ive at Shef­field Doc/​Fest, that will take place from 3th to 7th Novem­ber, and is designed to match doc­u­ment­ary makers’ most innov­at­ive pro­ject ideas with UK and inter­na­tional buyers. (...)
11.06.2010

50th Krakow Film Fest­ival. Pol­ish films awarded! 

On the 6th June the old­est film feast in Poland– 50th Krakow Film Fest­ival — came to an end. Dur­ing the jubilee gala lots of young pol­ish film­makers received the awards, among them: Karo­lina Bielawska, Julia Ruszkiewicz, Bartek Kulas and Igor Cho­jna. For the first time in many years the highest dis­tin­cion in the inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tion – The Golden Dragon – went to the pol­ish film „Out of reach” dir­ec­ted by Jakub Stożek.  (...)
09.06.2010

THE BRAND NEW POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES ON DVD

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.  (...)
May 2010
28.05.2010

CHEMOAND52 PER­CENTAGAIN ON THE LIST OF THE WINNERS

Jury of the Cana­dian Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival DOXA in Van­couver has given the main prizes to Paweł Łoziński — in the fea­ture film com­pet­i­tion, and to Rafał Skal­ski — in the short film competition.  (...)
20.05.2010

“Gold­fish” awar­ded at the Cro­no­graf Festival

On the 16th May, the eighth edi­tion of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival CRO­NO­GRAF in Mol­dova ended. From 27 films com­ing from 26 coun­tries, the inter­na­tional jury selec­ted the win­ners – among them, Tomasz Wol­ski, the dir­ector of the doc­u­ment­ary “Goldfish”. (...)
18.05.2010

Pol­ish films in Portugal

The organ­izers of the Por­tuguese fest­ival Cur­tas Vila do Conde, in co-​​operation with Krakow Film Found­a­tion, pre­pared a present­a­tion of five Pol­ish short and doc­u­ment­ary films. (...)
12.05.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES THE WIN­NERS OF ANASY DOC­U­MENT­ARY AWARDS

Anasy Doc­u­ment­ary Awards are given out. From among sev­eral dozen doc­u­ment­ary films from around the world, two Pol­ish ones received the highest distinctions. (...)
06.05.2010

WARSAW AVAIL­ABLEIN MONTE CARLO

The doc­u­ment­ary film dir­ec­ted by Karo­lina Bielawska and Julia Ruszkiewicz will com­pete for Inter­na­tional Grand Prix for Author’s Doc­u­ment­ary, that is the pres­ti­gi­ous award of Monte-​​​​Carlo Tele­vi­sion Festival. (...)
April 2010
24.04.2010

WORLD FILM FEST HOU­S­TON – THE AWARDS GIVEN

World Fest-​​Houston Inde­pend­ent Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival took place from 9 – 18 April. Two Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies and one fea­ture film were hon­oured with awards dur­ing the clos­ing cere­mony of the Amer­ican film event. (...)
20.04.2010

THE LIST OF POL­ISH FILMS SELEC­TED FOR THE 50TH KRAKOW FILM FEST­IVAL ANNOUNCED!

The select­ors of the 50th Krakow Film Fest­ival, one of the old­est European film events, have ended their work and now we know the list of films qual­i­fied for the com­pet­i­tions of the anniversary 50th edi­tion of the Fest­ival, which will take place from 31st May to 6th June. (...)
17.04.2010

WORLD PREMIERE OFTHE DOG HILLAT VIS­ION DU REEL 

“The Dog Hill”, a film by Grzegorz Zar­iczny, pro­duced by Andrzej Wajda Film School, had its world premiere dur­ing this year’s fest­ival Vis­ion du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland. (...)
15.04.2010

POL­ISH FILMS AGAIN IN CANADA

A strong rep­res­ent­a­tion of Pol­ish cine­ma­to­graphy will appear not only at the forth­com­ing doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ival Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada, but also at the World­wide Short Film Fest­ival – inter­na­tional short film fest­ival – tak­ing place in the same city. (...)
15.04.2010

DRAGON FORUM AND DOC­U­MENT­ARY CAM­PUS INVITE TO WORK­SHOPS AND CONFERENCES

Krakow Film Fest­ival is not only a pro­gramme abound­ing in shows of Pol­ish and for­eign cine­ma­to­graphy, diverse as far as top­ics, con­tent and form of presen­ted films are con­cerned. For sev­eral years, the Krakow event has been accom­pan­ied by film mar­ket, con­fer­ences and pitch­ing forum. (...)
10.04.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES, SHORTS AND ANIM­A­TIONS IN NICE 

At the forth­com­ing short film fest­ival “Un Fest­ival c’est trop court!” in Nice, Poland will be the guest of hon­our. Doc­u­ment­ary films, anim­a­tions, as well as short feature-​​films will be shown. Addi­tion­ally, the film “Mother” by Jakub Piątek will fight for the main prize in the inter­na­tional competition. (...)
08.04.2010

AWARD FOR MICHAŁ JÓŹWIAK

Dur­ing the clos­ing cere­mony of the DOC­UDAYS UA Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film about Human Rights Fest­ival in Kiev MichałJóźwiak received an award for the film “Foot­ball Father”. (...)
08.04.2010

ANASY DOC­U­MENT­ARY AWARDS NOM­IN­A­TIONS ANNOUNCED

Anasy Doc­u­ment­ary Awards, that is, an event pro­mot­ing and hon­our­ing only doc­u­ment­ary films, will take place from 25 April till 9 May in Abu Dahbi. Three Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies have been qual­i­fied to the competition. (...)
06.04.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­ARY FILMS AT DOXA FEST­IVAL IN CANADA

In the first half of May, in Van­couver, the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival DOXA will start. At this fest­ival, there will also appear a rep­res­ent­a­tion of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cinema. Four films by Pol­ish dir­ect­ors have been qual­i­fied to the inter­na­tional competition. (...)
02.04.2010

FILM­POL­SKA – GER­MAN FEST­IVAL OF POL­ISH FILMS

In the second half of April, two Ger­man cit­ies – Ber­lin and Pots­dam – will turn into the main centres pro­mot­ing Pol­ish cinema for a couple of days. Among the shown films there will also be doc­u­ment­ar­ies. What is more, the fest­ival will be accom­pan­ied by work­shops con­duc­ted by Mar­cin Koszałka. (...)
March 2010
27.03.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES AT THE HOT DOCS FEST­IVAL IN CANADA

At one of the biggest fest­ivals on the world, Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada, there will be a strong rep­res­ent­a­tion of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cinema. Two Pol­ish films will take part in the com­pet­i­tion, while as much as 22 films will be shown dur­ing the film mar­ket Doc Shop 2010.  (...)
27.03.2010

FLIGHT­LESS BIRDSAWAR­DED IN SLOVAKIA 

The third edi­tion of Inter­na­tional Stu­dent Film Fest­ival Early Mel­ons 2010 ended in Brat­is­lava. The Best Doc­u­ment­ary Film Award went to the dir­ector of “Flight­less Birds.” (...)
19.03.2010

CHEMOAWAR­DED IN PRAGUE 

The Inter­na­tional Human Rights Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival One World in Prague ended on 18th March. Paweł Łoziński, the dir­ector of “Chemo” was hon­oured with the best dir­ector award.  (...)
10.03.2010

POL­ISH DOCS IN THES­SALOL­NIKI INT.DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

A real feast of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary awaits the audi­ence of the 12th Thes­saloniki Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival. There are as much a 27 Pol­ish films sched­uled to be shown at the festival.  (...)
07.03.2010

WOJ­CIECH KASPER­SKI AWAR­DED IN ZAGREB

Yes­ter­day, the win­ners of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival ZAGREB­DOX were announced. “Chasm” by Woj­ciech Kasper­ski was hon­oured with the “Little Stamp” award for the best film by a young doc­u­ment­ary film-​​maker. (...)
February 2010
24.02.2010

BEHIND THE FENCE” —  ONE OF TEN 

Mar­cin Sauter’s film “Behind the Fence” is on the list of ten best recent short-​​length films pro­moted by L’Agence du Court Metrage in France. (...)
15.02.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES IN CROATIA

The Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival ZAGREB­DOX starts on 28th March in Zagreb. Dur­ing the fest­ival, Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown. Four of them will take part in the contest.  (...)
12.02.2010

JONAS MEKAS — LAUR­EATE OF THE DRAGON OF DRAGONS AWARD!

Jonas Mekas, a fore­run­ner and rep­res­ent­at­ive of the Amer­ican avant-​​garde film receives the Dragon of Dragons Award in recog­ni­tion of his con­tri­bu­tion to the world cinema . The artist has accep­ted our invit­a­tion and he will visit Krakow in May to receive the award dur­ing the jubilee 50th edi­tion of the Fest­ival. This will be his first visit in Poland! (...)
12.02.2010

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES AT THE FEST­IVAL IN SYRIA

At the forth­com­ing 3rd Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival DOX BOX in Syria six Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown. Three of them will com­pete for the audience’s award – the only award given in accord­ance with the view­ers’ votes. (...)
02.02.2010

“Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” nom­in­ated for the Oscars

Academy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences has just announced the Oscar nom­in­a­tions. Among the films com­pet­ing for the statuette, there is “Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” by Bartek Konopka.  (...)
01.02.2010

POL­ISH SHORTSSTAND AT THE CLERMONT-​​FERRAND SHORT FILM MARKET

At the Short Film Mar­ket begin­ning today in Clermont-​​Ferrand, dur­ing the biggest and the most import­ant Inter­na­tional Short Film Fest­ival in Clermont-​​Ferrand, France, Poland will again pro­mote its films. The POL­ISH SHORTS stand, pre­pared as every year by Krakow Film Found­a­tion, will be one of sev­eral dozens national stands, present­ing cine­ma­to­graphy from around the world.  (...)
January 2010
27.01.2010

POL­ISH DOCUMENTARY-​​FILMMAKERS IN HELSINKI

At the recently-​​launched doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ival Doc­point in Hel­sinki there are Pol­ish accents. Every day of the fest­ival, you can watch Pol­ish films and dis­cuss the Pol­ish cinema with its creators. (...)
05.01.2010

PAWEŁ ŁOZIŃSKI’S DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES ON DVD 

National Audi­ovisual Insti­tute has released a set of doc­u­ment­ary films by Paweł Łoziński on DVD, as a part of the series “Pol­ish School of the Doc­u­ment­ary”. Among the films, there are “Chemo”, the win­ner of Prix Europe, and “Struc­ture”, not well-​​known school etude by the director.  (...)
December 2009
14.12.2009

Rafał Skal­ski about the love of the handicapped

The doc­u­ment­ary “Lovers”(“Kochankowie”) is another pro­duc­tion made for HBO Cent­ral Europe this year. The film is about love, friend­ship and sexu­al­ity of the handicapped.  (...)
13.12.2009

The European Film Award goes to Mar­cel Łoziński

The European Film Awards were given last Sat­urday in Ger­man city Bochum. “Poste Rest­ante” by Mar­cel Łoziński was awar­ded the best short-​​length film.  (...)
05.12.2009

Jacek Petrycki the prize-​​winner at Camerimage 

17th Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival of the Art of Cine­ma­to­graphy Plus Camer­im­age ended in Lodz. Among the prize-​​winners, there is the latest doc­u­ment­ary by Mar­cel Łoziński. (...)
05.12.2009

Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies in Finland

Doc­Point Hel­sinki Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival starts on 26th Janu­ary. Within the frames of the fest­ival, the organ­izers pre­pared present­a­tions of nine Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies and a Mar­cel Łoziński retrospective.  (...)
November 2009
26.11.2009

„Six Weeks“ the prize-​​winner in Amsterdam!

IDFA has announced the prize-​​winners. „Six Weeks“ by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk won in the short-​​length doc­u­ment­ary films section.  (...)
23.11.2009

Free doc­u­ment­ary feast on DocAlliance

From 23rd to 29th Novem­ber, on the web­site of Doc Alli­ance, you can watch for free five doc­u­ment­ar­ies chosen by the greatest European doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ivals. These include, among oth­ers, “The Exist­ence” by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka and addi­tion­ally seven films from Wajda School.  (...)
23.11.2009

“Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” received the Golden Teeth award

21st 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. (...)
19.11.2009

Seven screen­ings for the sev­enth anniversary of Wajda Film School

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.  (...)
19.11.2009

Rafał Skalski’s doc­u­ment­ary is the best again

52 per­cent”, a film that has been awar­ded many times, received another prize. The film was given MEO Award for the best short-​​length film at the Estoril Film Fest­ival in Portugal.  (...)
16.11.2009

Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will com­pete for the Golden Frog

This year, for the first time, at the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Con­test „the Pic­ture of the world” organ­ised in the frames of Doc­u­ment­ary Sec­tion of the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival of the Art of Cine­ma­to­graphy PLUS CAM­ERAIM­AGE, under the pat­ron­age of Dis­cov­ery Net­works Cent­ral Europe, it was pos­sible to sub­mit applic­a­tions for two tem­poral cat­egor­ies: short – and full-​​length one.  (...)
15.11.2009

Pol­ish Day in China

Ten Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown to the Chinese audi­ence at the Guang­zhou Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival, which starts on 7th December.  (...)
11.11.2009

The film from Wajda School is the prize-​​winner in Munich

The jury of this year’s Inter­na­tional Short Film Fest­ival “The Way We Live!” in Munich awar­ded the third prize to the film ”The Foot­ball Father” by Michał Jóźwiak.  (...)
01.11.2009

„Chemo” the prize-​​winner in Leipzig

52nd DOK LEIPZIG — Inter­na­tional Fest­ival for Doc­u­ment­ary and Anim­ated Film has just fin­ished. There are two Pol­ish films among the prize-​​winners. (...)
01.11.2009

The Sil­ver Eye Awards: Pol­ish knock-​​out!

Dur­ing the clos­ing cere­mony of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival in Jih­lava, the Sil­ver Eye Awards for the best films qual­i­fied for the East Sil­ver Doc­u­ment­ary Mar­ket was given for the first time. Three Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies were awarded.  (...)
October 2009
29.10.2009

The jubilee cycle of Krakow Film Fest­ival — part 2 — THE PRIZE HUNTERS

50th anniversary of KFF nearer and nearer, there­fore jubilee cycle con­tin­ues. Every month the most inter­est­ing in the his­tory of the Fest­ival films are presen­ted. In Novem­ber — Prize Hunters. (...)
25.10.2009

Paweł Łoziński – the prize-​​winner at Prix Europe 

On Sat­urday even­ing in Ber­lin, “Chemo” by Paweł Łoziński was given the Prix Europe award in the TV Doc­u­ment­ary cat­egory. Thus, the film was chosen the best European doc­u­ment­ary TV pro­duc­tion in 2009.  (...)
25.10.2009

“Gold­fish” wins the Cam­era Obscura Festival

The Jury of the 6th edi­tion of Cam­era Obscura The Art of Report­age Fest­ival, includ­ing: Lidia Duda, Ilze Bukowska Jac­ob­sen, Grzegorz Klatka and Ant­oine Leonard Maes­trami announced the res­ults of the contest. (...)
20.10.2009

„Take a Look” – the best film in Petersburg

At this year’s Inter­na­tional Youth Film Fest­ival in Sankt Peters­burg the film “Take a Look” by Adam Palenta was given the best doc­u­ment­ary film award.  (...)
17.10.2009

Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies at the IDFA 

One of the largest doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ivals – IDFA — starts in a month in the Neth­er­lands. Among the qual­i­fied films there are sev­eral Pol­ish ones.  (...)
13.10.2009

Ini­ti­at­ing jubilee cycle — part I — KRAKOW SCANDALS

For the cel­eb­ra­tion of 50th birth­day Krakow Film Fest­ival has pre­pared spe­cial monthly cycle of the most inter­est­ing films in Fest­ival his­tory. First part of the cycle “Krakow scan­dals” tomor­row at Kino Pod Baranami. (...)
10.10.2009

„Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” close to the Oscar nomination

Amer­ican Academy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences has announced the Short List of 8 films which can apply for the Oscar nom­in­a­tion in the cat­egory Short-​​length Doc­u­ment­ary Film. „Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosłowski is on this list.  (...)
06.10.2009

Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies nom­in­ated for the Sil­ver Eye Award

On 30th Octo­ber, the Sil­ver Eye awards for the best films at the East Sil­ver Doc­u­ment­ary Mar­ket dur­ing the Jih­lava Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival will be given for the first time. The selec­tion com­mit­tee has chosen 11 films in each of the 3 cat­egor­ies: full-​​length doc­u­ment­ary, middle-​​length one and short film. Poland is rep­res­en­ted by 7 films.  (...)
05.10.2009

Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary awar­ded in Kazan

Beata Dzi­anow­icz was given an award for the film “Kites” at the Inter­na­tional Fest­ival Muslim Cinema ”Golden Min­bar” in Russia.  (...)
04.10.2009

New Reg­u­la­tions of Krakow Film Festival 

The recruit­ment for the 50th edi­tion of Krakow Film Fest­ival has just star­ted. The reg­u­la­tions regard­ing sub­mit­ting new films to the fest­ival have changed, and con­sequently the for­mula of the Fest­ival will be modified.  (...)
September 2009
28.09.2009

Pol­ish Films at DOK Leipzig 

At the forth­com­ing 52nd Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary and Anim­ated Film Fest­ival DOK LEIPZIG, there will be a strong rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Pol­ish films. Six films will take part in the com­pet­i­tion, and sev­eral oth­ers will be shown to the Ger­man audi­ence dur­ing extra-​​competition present­a­tions. In addi­tion to that, 13 films, pro­moted by Pol­ish Docs, will be presen­ted dur­ing the festival’s fair.  (...)
26.09.2009

Matej Bobrik’s doc­u­ment­ary – the best in Petersburg

At the 8 Open St. Peters­burg Film Fest­ival “Begin­ing”, which ended 23rd Septem­ber in the cur­rent year, “Where the Sun doesn’t rush” received the award for the best doc­u­ment­ary film.  (...)
20.09.2009

“Gold­fish” awar­ded in Hungary

The film „Gold­fish”, dir­ec­ted by Tomasz Wol­ski, was given the award for the best doc­u­ment­ary at the Inter­national Fest­ival of Young Film­makers “Cine­fest” in Hun­gary, which ended last Sat­urday. Apart from “Gold­fish”, Poland was rep­res­en­ted by the fol­low­ing films: “Gugara’ by Jacek Nagłowski and Andrzej Dyb­czak and “Ponad chodnikami”(“Above the Pave­ments”) by Piotr Stasik. (...)
16.09.2009

„Chemo” and „“Kró­lik po Ber­lińsku” (“Rab­bit a la Ber­lin”) nomi­anted for Prix Europe

The main award win­ners of the latest Krakow Film Fest­ival, doc­u­ment­ar­ies by Paweł Łoziński and Bartek Konopka, are fight­ing for the Prix Europe award. (...)
16.09.2009

„War Games” at IDFA Festival

Dari­usz Jabłoński’s doc­u­ment­ary “War Games” will open the most import­ant inter­na­tional doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ival IDFA in Ams­ter­dam. It will be shown within the frames of The Best Full-​​Length Doc­u­ment­ary Film Competition.  (...)
06.09.2009

Cuske’s film at PRIX ITALIA

III. Remem­ber the Sab­bath day and keep it holy” – the third epis­ode of the cycle “Deca­logue after Decalogue” – is among the films qual­i­fied for the com­pet­i­tion of the old­est world tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion fest­ival “Prix Italia”, which takes place this year in Turin.  (...)
August 2009
26.08.2009

Piotr Stasik’s film in Beirut

The doc­u­ment­ary film “Ponad chod­nikami” (“Above the Pave­ments”) has been qual­i­fied for the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival Doc­uDays in Beirut.  (...)
06.08.2009

ANDRZEJ WAJDA: LET”S SHOOT” in Locarno

The doc­u­ment­ary film, made by the group Paladino, will be pro­jec­ted dur­ing a spe­cial show at the upcom­ing Film Fest­ival in Swiss Locarno. (...)
04.08.2009

Poles at Aye Aye Film Festival 

Dur­ing this year’s edi­tion of Aye Aye Film Fest­ival in Nancy, France, Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary film will be rep­res­en­ted in the com­pet­i­tion, out­side the com­pet­i­tion and in the spe­cial screen­ing “The Best of Selection”. (...)
02.08.2009

Word tour of „Glass Trap”

Paweł Ferdek’s doc­u­ment­ary „Glass Trap”, nom­inee for European Film Award, will be shown dur­ing sev­eral film fest­ivals in dif­fer­ent places around the world.  (...)
02.08.2009

Screen­ing of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies in France

Dur­ing this year’s Lus­sas Doc Film Fest­ival —  Etats Gen­eraux du Film Doc­u­mentaire in France a spe­cial show will take place: “Doc Route: Poland”. Chris­tophe Postic, the festival’s man­aging dir­ector, has chosen films, which, accord­ing to him, are the most rep­res­ent­at­ive ones and whose cre­at­ors have left their mark on the his­tory of cinema, as well as doc­u­ment­ar­ies by young directors.  (...)
02.08.2009

Award for Fidyk in Jerusalem

Andrzej Fidyk’s film “Yodok Stor­ies”, tak­ing part in Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Jer­u­s­alem, received the main prize in the most pres­ti­gi­ous cat­egory, called “In the Spirit of Freedom”. (...)
July 2009
23.07.2009

„Ati­jat, the first wife”  — prize-​​winner in Estonia 

„Ati­jat, the first wife” , film by Anna Błaszczyk, pro­duced by OTO Film Stu­dio and TVP1, received Jury’s Spe­cial Dis­tinc­tion at this year’s Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Films Fest­ival in Parmu, Esto­nia. The Jury appre­ci­ated the film as “remark­able film about human rights”.  (...)
22.07.2009

EUREKA MEDIA’S DOC­U­MENT­ARY ONCE AGAIN IN LOCARNO 

A doc­u­ment­ary film by Aleksnader Gut­man “17th of August”, pro­duced by Eureka Media, has been qual­i­fied for the con­test of the Film Cri­tique Week dur­ing the 62nd Film Fest­ival in Locarno.  (...)

15.07.2009

„Belarus­ian Waltz” by Fidyk —  Emmy-​​nominee

Andrzej Fidyk’s film „Belarus­ian Waltz” is nom­in­ated for the EMMY award in the „out­stand­ing arts & cul­tural pro­gram­ming” category.  (...)
14.07.2009

YODOK STOR­IESANDNOTH­ING TO LOSEIN JERUSALEM 

“Yodok stor­ies” by Andrzej Fidyk will be shown in the com­pet­i­tion “In the Spirit of Free­dom” at Jer­u­s­alem Film Fest­ival, which starts 9th July 2009 in Israel. This is not the only one Pol­ish accent at this fest­ival – Katar­zyna Klimkiewicz’ s film “Noth­ing to lose” which was made within the frames of doc­u­ment­ary work­shops “Israel – Poland. A New Gaze”, will be shown to Israeli view­ers in the sec­tion “Doc­u­ment­ary films”.  (...)
12.07.2009

KOSZ­A­ŁKA – PRIZE-​​WINNER IN KAR­LOVE VARY 

“Till it hurts”, doc­u­ment­ary by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka, received spe­cial jury award in the films to 30 minutes at the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­love Vary.  (...)
11.07.2009

FIDYK WILL FIGHT FOR THE NOR­DIC AWARD

Among 21 doc­u­ment­ary films qual­i­fied to the com­pet­i­tion Nor­disk Pan­or­ama — Five Cit­ies Film Fest­i­wal there is Andrzej Fidyk’s film „Yodok stories“. (...)
10.07.2009

RAB­BITLA BER­LIN /​ MAUER­HASE FIGHTS FOR ANOSCAR®! 

RAB­BITLA BER­LIN /​ MAUER­HASE boosts its Oscar® pro­file at DocuWeeks

Rab­bit à la Berlin/​ Mauer­hase by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Roso­lowski was selec­ted for the IDA’s 13th Annual Doc­uWeeks™ The­at­rical Doc­u­ment­ary Show­case which helps to qual­ify fea­ture and short doc­u­ment­ar­ies for Academy Award® consideration.  (...)

08.07.2009

THE END OF THE SUM­MERBY STASIK AMONG THE NINE MOST PROM­ISING DOC­U­MENT­ARY PRO­JECTS IN KAR­LOVY VARY

The End of the Sum­mer” by Piotr Stasik is among nine of the best doc­u­ment­ary Pro­ject presen­ted within the frame­work of „Docu Tal­ents from the East” dur­ing this year Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­love Vary.  (...)

03.07.2009

PATRYK JORD­ANOW­ICZ AWAR­DED FOR PHO­TO­GRAPHY AT THE FEST­IVAL IN CANADA

The jury of the First People’s Fest­ival in Montreal decided to award Patryk Jord­anow­icz — Pol­ish cam­era­man — for pho­to­graphy in “Gugara”, dir­ec­ted by Jacek Nagłowski and Andrzej Dybczak.  (...)

June 2009
20.06.2009

GRAND PRIX FORDOC­UMENATRY ABOUT WAJDA!

The Film Group Paladino’s film “Andrzej Wajda; Let’s shoot!” pro­duced by Andrzej Wajda School, received Grand Prix dur­ing the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival of European Art “Arts& Film” in Prague.  (...)

19.06.2009

POL­ISH DOC­U­MENT­AR­IES AVAIL­ABLE IN DOC ALLIANCE

WWW​.DOCAL​LI​ANCE​FILMS​.COM is an Inter­net portal with video on demand, offer­ing con­stant acces to 250 extraordin­ary doc­u­ment­ary films.  (...)

March 2009
09.03.2009

GLASS TRAPNOM­IN­ATED FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARD!

„Glass Trap” by Paweł Fer­dek is the win­ner of The Best European Film Award at the Tampere Short Film Fest­ival in Fin­land. The award at the same time is a nom­in­a­tion for The European Film Award for short film. Receiv­ing this prize, awar­ded by the mem­bers of The European Film Academy, let alone being nom­in­ated for it, is an extraordin­ary prestige, espe­cially for a film debut. (...)
December 2008
18.12.2008

APPLY FOR EX ORI­ENTE FILM 2009

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applic­a­tion dead­line : Feb­ru­ary 1 2009 Details: www​.DOC​Uinter​.net (http://​www​.doc​uinter​.net/​e​n​/​a​c​t​i​v​i​t​i​e​s​.​p​h​p​?​i​d​=​101​&​a​m​p​;​r​o​k​=2009 ) The Ex Ori­ente Film work­shop is a train­ing pro­gram that sup­ports the devel­op­ment and fund­ing of cre­at­ive doc­u­ment­ary films in the entire region of Cent­ral and East­ern Europe. (...)

September 2008
22.09.2008

RENDEZ-​​VOUS BY MAR­CIN JANOS KRAW­CZYK WON THE FIRST PRIZE AT THE FEST­IVAL IN SWITZERLAND

Short doc­u­ment­ary “Rendez-​​vous” dir­ec­ted by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk won yesreday the First Award at the Look and Roll Film Festval in Olten, Switzerland.  (...)

June 2008
24.06.2008

POL­ISH DOCS AT SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC

19th Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Mar­ket “Sunny Side of the Doc” star­ted on Tues­day, June 24th.  (...)

 
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