POLISH FILMS IN THE COMPETION OF OBERHAUSEN

The 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be showing over 450 productions from some 60 countries in around 100 programmes. The festival’s mainstay continues to be the five competitions. This year will see the festival showing 131 new works. Five of them were produced in Poland.

Among 57 films selected to the International Competition – which is the oldest and the biggest competitive section of the festival – four Polish films will be screened. Three of them were made by students of Polish National Film School in Łódź – “Rogalik” by Paweł Ziemilski, “Luke and Lotta” by Renata Gąsiorowska and “Ziegenort” by Tomasz Popakul produced by No Label studio based in Krakow. The fourth film in the competition is “Dry Standpipe” by Wojciech Bąkowski – performer and author of animated films. The last but not the least “Tango notturno” by Agnieszka Chojnacka  will be screened in International Children’s and Youth Film Competition. Competition was fierce as over 6,600 films were submitted to the competition of one of the most prestigious short film festivals worldwide. 

From its origins Oberhausen International Short Film Festival is one of the leading events devoted exclusively to short film. It was Oberhausen, where in 1960 young German directors announced Oberhausen Manifesto. At that time Roman Polański, François Truffaut and Wim Wenders, to name just a few, screened their fist films at the festival. Every year the festival displays this unique diversity of forms, themes and approaches in contemporary short film starting of with short fiction, documentary and animation moving through video or film essay and all imaginable hybrids thereof. Every year there are over 1100 accredited guests attending the festival. 

 

This year’s edition of the festival will be held between 2nd and 27th May. 
 
The complete list of selected film is to be found at the official festival’s website