SHORTS AUTUMN SEASON

September festival screenings will surely bring Polish filmmakers new chances of winning awards and distinctions. Apart from the competition section, this month one can see Polish films on several special screenings.

The first chance of watching a Polish programme comes up even this week. Today, during the Aye Aye festival in Nancy, which lasts from Saturday, the Carte Blanche Pologne screening will take place, showing five short films made in the last two years. In the programme there are three animated films - the award-winner "Danny Boy" by Marek Skrobecki, "Once there was a king" by Tytus Majerski, "What happens when children don't eat soup" by Paweł Prewencki and two student fiction films "A Porter from Mewa Hotel" by Michał Janów and "The Barbican" by Bartłomiej Żmuda. Polish films are screened almost every year at the festival in Nancy. Also this year, another two films will have a chance of winning the festival laurels - "Written in ink" by Martin Rath and "Frozen Stories" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk.

September is also an important month for animated film. This week, the Swiss Fantoche festival begins; Fantoche is considered one of the most important European animated film festivals. In the competition, "What happens when children don't eat soup" by Paweł Prewencki, which has so far been awarded at eight festivals, will take part;  this month it is also shown in the Vilnius Short competition. Also, this week at the Slovenian film festival Stoptrik the following Polish films will appear: "Emperor's Toys" by Grupa 3/4, "Afternoon" by Izabela Plucińska and "Noise" by Przemek Adamski.

In less than a week, at a prestigious Encounters festival, as many as two Polish films will be shown: "Frozen Stories" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk and "Written in ink" by Martin Rath. The films have a chance to repeat the last year's success of Marcin Koszałka, who received the best documentary award in Bristol for his “Declaration of immortality”. In the same collection, the films by Rath and Jaroszuk, produced by the National Film School in Łódź, will also appear at the American Milwaukee Film Festival, starting on 29th September.

At the end of the week, as many as ten films will be a part of special Polish screening at the Finnish Reikäreuna Film Festival. From among the selected films, the viewers will have a chance of watching, for instance: "Birthday" by Jenifer Malmqvist, "Millhaven" by Bartek Kulas or "Hanoi-Warsaw" by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. It is already the eighth edition of the festival, within the frames of which, in addition to over 30 film screenings, also numerous exhibitions and concerts will take place. Krakow Film Foundation is the co-organiser of the Polish screening.

The set of the following five Polish films is included in the programme of a Dutch festival SOMNIO. At the festival, the Dutch audience will watch, among others, the winner of several awards, "Six Weeks" by Marcin Krawczyk, "Without snow" by Magnus von Horn and "The Gallery" by Robert Proch. Even though the festival does not organise a competition, there are many interesting films in the review. Within the frames of the last screening this month,  taking place at the "High Castle" festival in Lviv, the organisers will show: "Drawn from Memory" by Marcin Bortkiewicz, which featured in this year's "Director's Fortnight" section in Cannes, "Frozen Stories" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk, "Look at me" by Katarzyna Jungowska and animated "Underlife" by Jarosław Konopka. The festival in Lviv will be held between 21st to 30th September.

Up to the end of the month, Polish short films will have been shown at almost forty international festivals, and there is a chance of getting new awards and distinctions at, among others, the Raindance festival, ISFF Drama, Split FF, Mexican Shorts Shorts and Vilnius SFF.

The full list of September festival screenings can be found in the "at festivals" tab