ŁUKASZ SIMLAT AWARDED AT STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
On Sunday evening, the 43rd edition of the Sehsüchte Student Film Festival, which lasted from 30 April in Potsdam, Germany, ended. Among the award-winners, there is Łukasz Simlat - the main actor in the diploma film by Paweł Maślona "Magma."
Sehsüchte is the largest and the oldest European student film festival. This year two Polish student films screened in the international competition of the festival - "Killing Auntie" by Mateusz Głowacki and "Magma" by Paweł Maślona. Both authors are graduates of the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice. It is worth adding that in the very same competition screened the the award-winning short documentary "Vegas" by Łukasz Konopa, currently a student of the English NFTS, who also previously studied at the University of Silesia in Katowice.On the 4th May, at the closing gala of the festival, the awards were given in sixteen categories - among others, the Best Fiction Film Award, the Best Documentary Film Award, the Best Animated Film Award and the Best Editing. Łukasz Simlat received the Best Actor Award.
Simlat repeatedly appeared in student films, most recently in the episodic role in the film by Kacper Lisowski "Father's Day". Before that, Łukasz Simlat acted, among others, in student etudes "No sugar" by Matylda Kawka, "3 love" by Agnieszka Smoczyńska and the famous "Room for a quick one" by Anna Maliszewska.
"Magma" - the diploma film by Paweł Maślona - is a tragicomic portrait of Janusz, the salesman in furniture shop. One day, the man accidentally rips a pillow - this is the first "accident" in the company for a very long time. It seems that it made Janusz very upset. Or maybe it is something else which worries him?
The full list of award-winning films can be found here