THE SUMMER HEYDAY OF POLISH SHORTS

This month Polish short films will be screened at 17 foreign film festivals. Two most celebrated titles of August are – animated “Ziegenort” by Tomek Popakul and a documentary “Rogalik” by Paweł Ziemilski.

August proved a good time for animated films. At the beginning of the month, the ANIMAMUNDI festival kicked off. Each summer, for 21 years now, the festival presents the best short animation films made worldwide. This year there are nine Polish films selected to the programme – four of them – “What happens when children don’t eat soup” by Paweł Prewencki, “Railway watchman” by Piotr Szczepanowicz, “Ex animo” by Wojciech Wojtkowski, “On/Off” by Piotr Ludwik and “Katachi” by Kijek/Adamski – made it to the competitive sections. In the side programme one will get the chance to watch “Noise” by Przemysław Adamski, “Kigo” by Izumi Yoshida, “Ab ovo” by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi and “Bear me” by Kasia Wilk. Another Polish feature of the programme will be brought by the panorama screening organized by the Rotunda Association called “Polish School of Animation – next generations”. The festival programme will be presented in two Brazilian cities – in Rio de Janeiro (between 2nd and 11th August) and in Sao Paulo between 14th and 18th August.

This month’s record-breaker, the multi-awarded “Ziegenort” by Tomek Popakul was selected to eight festivals among them a Kosovan Anibar (here with “Toto” by Zbigniew Czapla) and Dokufest ( in competition with “My house without me” by Magdalena Szymków), Italian Lucania and Concorto as well as Open Air Weiterstadt (where also a short fiction “Favourite thing” by Piotr Iskra will be screened). The second  acclaimed film of the month - “Rogalik” by Paweł Ziemilski received three festival invitations to Japan, Brazil and Mexico.

At the end of the month starts the 28th edition of Odense Film Festival. There in the international competition two Polish films will be screened – an animated “Lost senses” by Marcin Wasilewski and last month’s award winner – “Mother” by Łukasz Ostalski. Odense is one of the prominent events at the map of European short film festivals. The second important festival of the month will kick off at the end of August in Sao Paulo.  There three Polish Films will be screened as a part of the international competition – apart from the experienced “festival goers” “Ziegenort” by Popakul and “Rogalik” by Ziemilski also “Forever mine” by Matylda Kawka will be screened and celebrate its international debut in Brazil. On August 30th the last festival of this month will be opened in French Nancy. This year three Polish films are screened as a part of the Aye Aye Film Festival – “Ziegenort” by Popakul, “All souls’ day” by Aleksandra Terpińska and “Boo!” by Kordian Kądziela.

The complete list of the upcoming festival screenings can be found in the “at festivals” tab while you can learn more about what’s in store for Polish documentaries this month by clicking here.