Some 110,000 spectators attended the festival, which has become one of the largest film events in CEE. They included 157 foreign film directors, actors, producers, sales agents and distributors and 241 Polish guests, among them, the Hungarian director Béla Tarr who presented his last film The Turin Horse and gave a masterclass.

The Audience Award went to the debut of Argentinian director Paula Markovitch The Prize (El premio, Mexico / France / Poland / Germany 2011). The Film on Art competition prize and 10,000 euros went to to Arirang (South Korea 2011) directed by Kim Ki-duk. Along with the awards, Attenberg, Arirang, Gravedigger and The Prize have guaranteed distribution in Polish cinemas by the New Horizons Association, the organizer of the festival.

In the New Polish Films Competition, the Wrocław Film Award (including 100,000 PLN, 60,000 for the producer, and 40,000 for the director) funded by the president of Wrocław, went to Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal for It Looks Pretty from a Distance. The prize of the Lower Silesia Voivodeship Marshall (40,000 PLN) for the best debut was given to Jan Komasa for Suicide Room.

The Polish Short Films Competition winners, chosen by the audience, were the animated film Shivering Trunks directed by Natalia Brożyńska, the documentary film 3 Days Of Freedom directed by Łukasz Borowski and the fiction film Basia From Podlachie by Aleksander Dembski.

The Polish-Norwegian Co-Production Forum, with 80 participating producers, film funds, distributors and buyers, presented 10 projects as potential Polish-Norwegian co-productions. The festival expressed condolences for the victims of the tragic Norwegian killings and expanded its Norwegian section during the festival.

The organizers announced the dates of the 2012 festival, 19-29 July, which will include a retrospective for Austrian director Ulrich Seidl.