POLISH FILMS AT FRISS HUS FESTIVAL
The second edition of Hungarian Friss Hus Short Film Festival kicked off yesterday in Budapest. The festival’s programme features the special screening of Polish short films. The festival will end on Sunday.
The Festival’s programme includes two competitive sections – Hungarian competition and International one. In total 66 films will be screened as a part of 10 screenings. Among 26 titles selected to the international competition stands a Polish “Sad monsters” directed by Justyna Tafel – a student of Polish National Film School in Łódź. On Sunday, during the closing of the festival, the best film will be awarded a Grand Prix and 1000 euros. Films will be evaluated by the jury comprising of Katarzyna Klimkiewicz (director), Domenico La Porta (Cineuropa) and Matthieu Darras (Torino Film Lab).A screening of Polish short films will form part of the non-competitive programme. The audience will watch seven of the most frequently screened and awarded films from the catalogue of Krakow Film Foundation among them documentary “The Whistle” by Grzegorz Zariczny – the winner of the short film competition at last year’s Sundance IFF, short fiction “Hanoi-Warsaw” by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz – awarded the EFA award in the short film category as well as an animated “Noise” by Przemysław Adamski – screened at more than 40 festivals worldwide. The Hungarian audience will also get the chance of watching numerously screened and awarded “All souls’ day” by Aleksandra Terpińska, “The Railway watchman” by Piotr Szczepanowicz, “Watermelon” by Tato Kotetishvili and “Written in ink” by Martin Rath. The screening will be held tomorrow at 6:30 in Cirko-Gejzír cinema.
Krakow Film Foundation is a Polish partner of the event.
More on the Friss Hus Budapest Short Film Festival can be found here