A total of 191 films were screened from 28 May to 4 June in Krakow cinemas and across the country. Screenings are moving online to the festival’s platform from 2 to 18 June 2023.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS:
COMPETITION:
Dragon Award Contribution to Development of World Animated Film:
Michael Dudok de Wit (the Netherlands)
KFF Recommendation the European Film Award in Documentary Category:
Songs of Earth (Norway)
Directed by Margreth Olin
International Documentary Films Competition:
Golden Horn Director of Best Film:
Nick Read and Ayse Toprak for My Name Is Happy (Great Britain, Turkey)
Silver Horn Director of the Best Film with High Artistic Values:
Tunde Skovran for Who I Am Not (Romania, Canada)
Silver Horn for the Director of the Best Film on Social Issues:
Ella Glendining for Is There Anybody Out There? (United Kingdom)
FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Prize:
Ella Glendining for Is There Anybody Out There? (United Kingdom)
International Short Films Competition:
Golden Dragon for the Director of the Best Film:
Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki for Winter (Poland)
Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Documentary:
Yaser Talebi for Daughter (Iran)
Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Animated Film:
Sofiia Melnyk for Mariupol: A Hundred Nights (Ukraine, Germany)
Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Feature Film:
David Arslanian for Underdogs (France)
Best European Film (Krakow Candidate to the European Film Award 2023 in the Short Film Category):
There Are People in the Forest (Poland)
Directed by Szymon Ruczyński
International Federation of Film Societies (FICC) Awards:
Don Quijote Award:
Underdogs (France)
Directed by David Arslanian
Mariupol: A Hundred Nights (Ukraine, Germany)
Directed by Sofiia Melnyk
International Doc Film Music Competition:
Golden Heynal for the Director of the Best Film:
Agnieszka Iwańska for Ula (Poland)
Special Mention:
Paloma Zapata for La Singla (Spain)
Polish Competition:
Golden Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Fiction Film:
Michał Toczek for Being Somebody (Poland)
Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Documentary under 30 Minutes:
Mateusz Pietrak for Basia: Three Short Stories (Poland)
Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Animated Film:
Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki for Winter (Poland)
Distinction for Jakub Stoszek and Magdalena Mistygacz for Wyraj (Poland, Ukraine)
Award of the Center for Audiovisual Technology CeTA in Wrocław for the Creator of the First or Second Fiction Film:
Bartek Stankiewicz for Polar Bears (Poland)
Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Documentary over 30 Minutes:
Małgorzata Kozera for Faces of Agata (Poland)
Distinction for Paweł Hejbudzki for Wiraż (Poland)
Distinction for Clara Kleininger-Wanik for Globus (Poland, Romania)
Best Cinematography Award (under the Patronage of The Polish Society of Cinematographers and funded by Black Photon):
Michał Modlinger for Wiraż (Poland)
Maciej Szumowski Award for Remarkable Social Awareness (under the patronage of the Association of Authors ZAiKS):
Dariusz Janiczak for Who Will Clean Your Windows? (Poland)
Award of the President of the Polish Filmmakers Association for Editing:
Olga Bejm for Basia: Three Short Stories (Poland)
Directed by Mateusz Pietrak
Award for the Best Producer of Polish Short Films and Documentaries Funded by the Polish Producers Alliance, ATM Group and FDR Studio:
Agnieszka Skalska and Agnieszka Dziedzic for Radical Move (Poland)
Produced by Koi Studio
Audience Award:
Motherland (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)
Directed by Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziak
Student Jury Award:
Winter (Poland)
Directed by Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki
Excellence Line Award for Exceptional Image Quality Funded by Samsung:
Songs of Earth (Norway)
Directed by Margreth Olin
KFF INDUSTRY AWARDS – ANIMATED IN POLAND AND DOC LAB POLAND 2023:
Animated in Poland Awards:
SOUND MIND STUDIO Award:
Joko
Directed by Izabela Plucińska
Produced by Animoon
FIXAFILM Award:
Hair Story
Directed by Dominika Wyrobek
Produced by Forest of Art Foundation, Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association
CeTA (Audiovisual Technology Center) Award:
Jest Taki Błękit
Directed by Zofia Snarska
Produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
CREW UNITED Honourable Mention:
Hair Story
Directed by Dominika Wyrobek
Produced by Forest of Art Foundation, Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association
Doc Lab Poland Awards:
For Projects Presented at Docs to Go:
SMAKJAM Award:
Aria Di Bravura
Directed by Małgorzata Goliszewska
Produced by Movie Mates
FIXAFILM Award:
Runa
Directed by Agnieszka Zwiefka
Produced by Chilli Productions
CAFE OLE Award:
Do Painters Die Elsewhere
Directed by Michal Pietrak
Produced by Orient Film
Institute of Documentary Film Honourable Mention:
Do Painters Die Elsewhere
Directed by Michal Pietrak
Produced by Orient Film
For Projects Presented at Docs to Start:
CANAL+CANAL+ Award:
Home Movie
Directed by Anu Czerwinski
Produced by Film Frame, My Way Studio
ORKA Award:
December
Directed by Grzegorz Paprzycki
Produced by Telemark
MX35 Award:
Baltic
Directed by Iga Lis
Produced by Silver Frame
CAFE OLE Award:
What the…Hen!
Directed by Joanna Deja
Produced by Raban Foundation
DOK Leipzig Honourable Mention:
Omelko’s House or Guests from Kharkiv
Directed by Halyna Lavrinets
Produced by Eleron Pictures
IDFA Honourable Mention:
Second Line
Directed by Olga Stuga
Produced by EP Olga Stuga
Polish Docs Pro Distinction:
December
Directed by Grzegorz Paprzycki
Produced by Telemark
