12-12-2010

Dorota Kędzierzawska Receives the Golden Alexander in Thessaloniki

By FNE Staff

    Polish director Dorota Kędzierzawska was honored with the Golden Alexander award for her work as director at a ceremony held during the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival on 9 December 2010. The festival organized a retrospective of her work.

    The retrospective included six feature films, all co-produced by TVP (www.international.tvp.pl), marking a spectrum of Kędzierzawska's work: Crows, Devils, Devils, I Am, Nothing, Time to Die and her 1988 debut film The End of the World .

    The films illustrate the director's original, outstanding style that was characterized by the organizers as one in which, "the surrounding bleakness [...] serves as an unvarnished landscape for people's stories; the reliance, not on dialogue, but on cinematic language, such as tender close-ups, the play of people's eyes with the light, the glances that are the most faithful depictions of emotion; the spirit with which she focuses on her characters. None perhaps of her convictions is more evident than her compassion for the people she portrays and the profound respect she has for their choices."