SHORT FICTION BY OLGA KAŁAGATE AWARDED IN THE NETHERLANDS
Eight Polish student films were featured in the programme of the fourth edition of festival FLICKS held in Dutch Gronningen, that came to an end last Friday. “Wolf’s clothing” received an award for the Best Film.
This is another good year for Poles at Dutch Flicks. It was last year when the main festival’s prize went to Piotr Złotorowicz – a student of Polish National Film School in Łódź – for his “Normal people”. This March, Flicks Film Festival organized by the student cultural centre Usva in cooperation with ESN Groningen, presented for the fourth time the programme of 27 films made by the film students from all over the world. This year the Polish representation was numerous – in total 8 films made it to the top selection – apart from awarded “The Wolf’s clothing” by Olga Kałagate also “All Souls’ day” by Aleksandra Terpińska (both produced by Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Tv Faculty of University of Silesia), “Watermelon” by Tato Kotetishvili, “Bear me” by Kasia Wilk, “From the life of scarecrows” by Grzegorz Dębowski, “Steven and the Beatle” by Piotr Hoang Ngoc, “And nothing around” and “Eighteen birthday” by Marta Prus – all directed by students of Polish National Film School in Łódź.The awarded “Wolf’s clothing”, combining live-action film with elements of animation, is a portrait of 30 year old Łucja. The woman feels unfulfilled, she’s torn between the need of communing with the others and fear she feels of men. She is a loner living in the world where reality meets fantasy. One day she decides to change something. Film by Kałagate, screen several times abroad, last year scored the award at the London Edge of the City Film Festival.
More on festival at the official website