JULY AT SHORT FILM FESTIVALS

Athough the holidays started for good, the silly season doesn’t cover the film festival that every summer are springing up thoughtout the whole season. Until the end of the month Polish films will be screened at 12 film festivals abroad.

After River Film Festival, held in June, that screened numerous Polish short films, this month another Italian festival will put Polish film in the spotlight. At the Euganea film festival four films will be screened – fiction “Frozen stories” by Grzegorz Jaroszuk and “Drawn from memory” by Marcin Bortkiewicz, a documentary “3 days of freedom” by Łukasz Borowski and “Once there was a king” – an animation by Tytus Majerski. The laureates of the festival will be announced on 21st July. At the Armenian Golden Apricot Film Festival three Polish films were selected to compete for the festival’s trophy – “The big leap” by Kristoffer Rus, “Boo!” by Kordian Kądziela and “Mother” by Łukasz Ostalski. The last one – a graduation film made by Ostalski at Gdynia Film School – received the invitation for the oldest Croatian festival in Pula where it will compete for the short film competition laurels. The festival will kick off tomorrow and will last till 27th July.

 Tomasz Popakul continues a string of good luck with his animated “Ziegenort”. A film that only in June was awarded three times, this month received the invitation for five national festivals and a korean SICAF – one of the leading animation film festivals worldwide. Numerous festival invitations are being sent out also to “Darling” – the latest clay animation made by Izabela Plucińska – that was screened premierly in May at the Krakow Film Festival. At the turn of June and July the film will compete for the laurels of short film competition of the Melbourne Film Festival.

 Just like in the last few years also this time Polish film was selected for the French One Country One Film, that every year presents the best world short films in the programme that features one film from each country. Polish “Hamster” by Bartek Ignaciuk will represent our country in the competition.  

 Aleksandra Terpińska and her short fiction “All souls’ day” continues travelling to film festivals all over the world. In the next two weeks the film will be screened at the Ukrainian Wiz-Art Festival and Puerto Rican Cinefiesta (here in the competition with the animated “Danse macabre” by Małgorzata Rżanek). Now staying in the region of the Latin America it is worth to mention the Mexican Gianajuato Film Festival where three Polish films will be screened in the official short film competition – the documentary “The Whistle” as well as animated “Darling” by Izabela Plucińska and “Toto” by Zbigniew Czapla. 

 More on the documentary festivals of July can be found at Polish Docs here


On the top - the still from "Hamster" by Bartek Ignaciuk (prod. Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Produkcja Filmowa, TVP SA)