The Wajda School anniversary events continue with a series of master classes by leading European filmmakers connected with the Wajda School including Wajda and Marczewski, as well as lectures by Volker Schlöndorff, Udayan Prasad and Jerzy Zieliński, and Zbigniew Libera, the winner of the first Film Award presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) and the Wajda School.
The festival will also screen 15 of the best documentaries and feature films, ranging from short to full-length, which were created over 10 years at the Wajda School with some of the outstanding Polish cinematographers of the younger generation.
In addition, the Short Documentary Film Competition shows the two most recent documentaries produced as part of the DOC PRO programme at the Wajda School: the European Film Award nominee Paparazzi by Piotr Bernaś, with cinematography by Bernaś and Łukasz Żal, and Decrescendo by Marta Minorowicz, with cinematography by Paweł Chorzępa.
The Polish Film Competition will feature four films that were developed as part of EKRAN, the international programme conducted by the Wajda Studio: My Name is Ki by Leszek Dawid (produced by Scorpion Arte, www.scorpionarte.eu), Daas by Adrian Panek (produced by Argomedia Productions, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Courage by Greg Zglinski (produced by Opus Film, www.opusfilm.pl) and Fear of Falling by Bartek Konopka (produced by the Munk Studio at the SFP Polish Filmmakers Association, www.studiomunka.pl).
Accompanying the festival are four exhibits related to the Wajda School or its founder. After the Plus Camerimage Festival, the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Wajda School will move to Berlin, where they will be part of the programme of the retrospective entitled "Andrzej Wajda - Known and Unknown", which will last from 2 to 31 December 2011.
