POLISH SHORT FILMS AT SHORT FILM CORNER
Festival de Cannes started on May 13. This year twenty seven Polish short films will be featured in three special programmes within the frames of Short Film Corner – Cannes short film market.
Polish short film has been present at Festival de Cannes for many years. Almost every year, we have our representative in either competition sections or parallel sections accompanying the main programme, to mention only "Drawn from Memory" by Marcin Bortkiewicz and "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section, "Olena" by Elżbieta Benkowska competing for the Short Film Palme d’Or, and animated "Danse Macabre" by Małgorzata Rżanek in the student competition Cinéfondation and "Blue Room” by Tomasz Siwiński in Semaine de la Critique. Since 2007, thanks to the collaboration between Krakow Film Foundation and Short Film Corner, short films are not missing from the industry section of the festival, either.
Short Film Corner is short film market, held simultaneously with the Film Festival in Cannes. It is one of the most important short film industry events in the world, each year attracting a large community of short film professionals. Accredited guests visiting the market have 10 days for watching the films featured in the catalogue and the market's video library, receiving materials concerning the films and meeting producers and representatives of specific productions. The films are promoted directly on the spot and on-line.
Every year, Polish short films are presented in the Short Film Corner catalogue in the form of POLISH SHORTS programme, which has its own section in the market's catalogue, among about thirty similar programmes prepared by institutions promoting their films abroad. Munk Studio and Polish National Film School in Łódź have their own sections in the market and present their latest and the most interesting productions there.
The programme of POLISH SHORTS in 2015 includes fourteen films. These include films already screened at film festivals, such as the frequently-awarded documentary film "Super Unit" by Teresa Czepiec, and "The Place" by Julia Popławska, as well as films which begin their festival tour, such as "America" by Aleksandra Terpińska, the film which will have its international première at the 55th Krakow Film Festival, or the animated "Don't Lose Your Head" by Karolina Specht, the film which will be screened for the first time in the Student Film Competition at the Annecy Film Festival.
Fiction films and animations are dominated by school productions. And so, the Polish National Film School in Łódź is represented by animated films such as: "Fences" by Natalia Krawczuk, "Don't Lose Yourt Head" and "A Documentary Film" by Marcin Podolec as well as the fiction film "Thumbs up" by Stefan Łazarski. Four other films: "The Moment" by Piotr Domalewski, "Asshole" by Krzysztof Komander, "Hurly-Burly" by Jakub Czekaj and "America" are produced by the Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In the programme of Polish Shorts 2015, there are also two professional animations: stop-motion "Woolen Cogwheels" by Bartosz Kędzierski and "The Mother Matrix" by Sławomir Shuty and Tomasz Bochniak.
"Best of Lodz Film School" programme features seven diploma films: the comedy "Hangover" by Maciej Buchwald, the documentary "It Would Be Beautiful" by Anna Morawiec and "A short walk" by Jagoda Szelc, "Maja" by Jakub Michnikowski, "Our little game" by Katarzyna Lesisz, "Perfect killing" by Julian A.Ch. Kernach and Antonio Galdamez and the animated film "Conquerors of the Triangle Space" by Alicja Błaszczyńska.
In its programme, Munk Studio will present three documentaries: "21 Days" by Damian Kocur, and award-winning "Starting Point" by Michał Szcześniak and "Object" by Paulina Skibińska, two fiction films: "My Father's Eyes" by Bartosz Blaschke and "Pinky" by Tomasz Cichoń, as well as the animated film "Creatures" by Tessa Moult-Milewska.