This year’s Festival (31st May – 7th June) saw the triumph of Polish female documentary filmmakers, who received the three main prizes in the International Documentary Competition, featuring 20 films from around the world.
The Golden Horn for the Best Documentary was awarded to Karolina Bielawska, the director of “Call Me Marianna”, and two Silver Horns to Aleksandra Maciuszek (“Casa Blanca”) and Agnieszka Zwiefka (“The Queen of Silence”). The Jury consisting of: Wieland Speck – President (Germany), Martin Blaney (UK), Hans Robert Eisenhauer (Germany), Piotr Rosołowski (Poland) and Audrius Stonys (Lithuania) emphasised a high level of the Polish documentary films.
The prizes of the International Short Film Competition went to representatives of four different continents – Elizabeth Lo from the United States (“Hotel 22”, Golden Dragon), Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez from Chile (“A Tale of Love, Madness and Death”, Silver Dragon), Zsuzsanna Kreif and Borbála Zétényi (“Limbo Limbo Travel”, Silver Dragon) from France and Hungary, and Boon-Lip Quah (“The Free Man”, Silver Dragon) from Taiwan. All the Dragons awarded in the Short Film Competition facilitate being nominated for the Oscar and the European Film Academy awards.
The laureate of the third edition of the Internationl DocFilmMusic Competition is Brett Morgen, the director of “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”, and the special mention was given to the director, scriptwriter and, privately, brother of the main protagonist of the touching “No Land’s Song”.
The National Competition brought another success for Aleksandra Maciuszek and her “Casa Blanca” who received the Golden Hobby Horse. The Silver Hobby Horse was awarded to “The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls” by Krzysztof Kopczyński – the film screened at the Opening Ceremony. In the category of animated films, the Jury recognised Tomasz Śliwiński (“A Blue Room”), and the prize for the best short feature film was given to Grzegorz Jaroszuk (“Story of Nothing”). Additionally, a special mention was received by Vita Maria Drygas, the director of “Piano”.
The Students’ Jury, in turn, decided that from among the 105 competition films the best one was “We Can’t Live Without the Cosmos”.
For the first time the Krakow Film Festival also recommended three feature-length documentaries for the European Film Award: “Unstoppables” by Bartosz M. Kowalski, “Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls” by Krzysztof Kopczyński and “Call Me Marianna” by Karolina Bielawska.
The entire verdict with justifications is available on the festival’s website: http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/en/news/568
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Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. During 8 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open air screenings and meetings with the filmmakers. Every year Krakow Film Festival hosts about 600 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, film festival programmers and numerous audience from Krakow.
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