22 POLISH DOCUMENTARY FILMS AT THE FESTIVAL "FLAHERTIANA" IN PERM, RUSSIA
On September 18 begins the 15th edition of the Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival in Perm. During this edition, in the Special Programme prepared in co-operation with Krakow Film Foundation, 20 Polish documentary films will be shown, and "The Queen of Silence" and "Werka" will compete in the international competition.
Polish films will be shown in several sections. In Polish Docs: Young Talents, short films promoting young documentary film-makers will be shown. The most interesting débuts of the last few years will be shown: the award-winner in Leipzig and Clermont-Ferrand "A Piece of Summer" by Marta Minorowicz, "Paparazzi" by Piotr Bernaś, nominated for the European Film Award, Sundance award-winner "The Whistle" by Grzegorz Zariczny, "A Visit" by Matej Bobrik and "Rogalik" by Paweł Ziemilski, shown at the prestigious festival IDFA, Academy Award nominee "Our Curse" by Tomasz Śliwiński, and last but not least, the most popular hits of recent months: "Super Unit" by Teresa Czepiec and "Starting Point" by Michał Szcześniak, films which this year will also compete for the Academy Award nomination.
In the section Krakow Film Festival Special, the viewers will have a chance to watch documentary films from Krakow Film Festival, both these shown and awarded at the last two editions - "Casa Blanca" by Aleksandra Maciuszek, "House On Its Head" by Adam Palenta, "Object" by Paulina Skibińska, "Plus and minus, or the fly's journey to the East" by Bogdan Dziworski, "The End of the World" by Monika Pawluczuk and "W. Sisters' Beauty Salon" by Jakub Stożek - as well as the best classic Polish documentary films - the winners of the Golden Dragons and the Golden Hobby-horses from 1960s., 1970s. and 1980s. "The Musicians" by Kazimierz Karabasz, "Hair" by Marek Piwowski, "The Hospital" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, "The Primer" by Wojciech Wiszniewski, "Primary School" by Tomasz Zygadło and "A few stories about a man" by Bogdan Dziworski. He will be the festival's special guest, and the interested viewers and young film-makers will have a chance to listen to what he has to say about his artistic method and take a look at his extremely characteristic film technique during the master lesson.
15th International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" is held in the Russian city of Perm from 18 to 24 September. The name of the festival refers to the surname of one of the world precursors of documentalism, Robert Flaherty - the director of the famous film "Nanook of the North" (1922). Because of this, the awards given at the festival are called "Nanook Awards," and in previous years they were often won by Poles.
In 2006, the Silver Nanook for short documentary film went to "The Seeds" by Wojciech Kasperski. 2010 turned out to be an exceptionally good year for Polish documentary film: Paweł Łoziński returned from the festival with the Silver Nanook for "Chemo", while special mentions went to Marcin Sauter for "North from Calabria" and Michał Marczak for "At the Edge of Russia". A year later, two Polish films were awarded, the Silver Nanook for short film went to Paweł Stasik for "The Last Day of Summer", and the FIPRESCI award - to "Out of Reach" by Jakub Stożek. In 2014, "Abu Haraz" by Maciej Drygas was triumphant in Perm - the film not only got the festival Grand Prix, that is, the Golden Nanook, but also the FIPRESCI award.
This year, yet another chance for "Nanooks" for Polish documentary film opens. In the international competition, 15 films from around the world, including two films from Poland, will compete for the awards. These two films are "The Queen of Silence" by Agnieszka Zwiefka and "Werka" by Paweł Łoziński.
You can read more about the festival on Flahertiana's website.