Although the weather outside is warm, nice and perfect for the holiday’s waste of time, Polish short films are constantly on the festival’s tournee and don’t seem to slow down even a bit. This month one can track Polish titles in the catalogues of more than 20 film festivals taking place around the world!

The screening of “Mercy” by Eliza Subotowicz will initiate the August tournee. It is the third such an important festival after Grimstad and Palm Springs for the film produced by Munk Studio. Not long after that animated “Games” by Maja Tetłak will celebrate its international premiere at the Monterrey Film Festival in Mexico. New York City International Film Festival will set off on 10th August when numerously screened and awarded “Twist and Blood” by Kuba Czekaj will be screened as the only Polish film on the competition. In the meantime four Polish shorts got accepted to the competition of Italian Lucania Film Festival – apart from narrative “Without snow” by Magnus von Horn and “The Lake” by Jacek Piotr Bławut also animated “The Good, the Beauty and the Truth” will compete for the main festival’s trophy.

August brings also many opportunities of enlarging the award collections for festival’s favorites. “Written in ink” – a documentary etude by Martin Rath, a student of Polish National Film School in Łódź – this month got accepted to the competitions of three American festivals – Mineapolis, Rhode Island and HollyShorts. “Frozen stories” by Grzegorz Jaroszuk now quite familiar to the audience will be screed in Brazil, Ireland and Thailand while animated “Danny Boy” by Marek Skrobecki got selected to the competition of the Italian Imaginaria.

With the end of the month one of the most prominent animation festivals will take place in Japanese Hiroshima. There are four Polish films featured in the non-competitive section called "Stars of Students" – “Two steps behind..” by Paulina Majda, “At Saint’s Vincent Day” by Stanisław Furman, “Games” by Maja Tetłak – already mentioned above and "What happens when children don't eat soup" by Paweł Prewencki. The last one will be also screened in the mid-August the Danish Odense what brings another chance for an award for Paweł Prewencki – a graduate of University of Arts in Poznań.

Summer is also a perfect moment for all the open air screenings and festivals where more and more short films are screened along with the feature ones. This month “Without snow”, “Glasgow” and “Gallery” will be screened in the open air in Amsterdam, German Weiterstadt and Dutch Groningen.

The complete list of the August festival is available in the “at festivals” tab

AUGUST 2012