WAJDA FILM SCHOOL FILMS IN CRACOW

At this year’s Cracow Film Festival the Andrzej Wajda Film School will present nine films. Two of them will run in the Polish films competition, seven of them will be presented off competition.

In the Polish films competition, which starts on 29th May and ends on 4th July, the Andrzej Wajda Film School will show two of its productions: a documentary called ‘Andrzej Wajda: Let’s Shoot!’ directed by the Paladino Film Group and ‘The Sleepwalkers’ by Maciek Sterło-Orlicki – a feature film produced within the framework of the ‘30 Minutes’ programme run by: the Andrzej Wajda Film School, the A. Munk ‘Młodzi i Film’ Studio which is part of the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish Film Institute and the Polish Public Television. 
Our other films will be shown off the competition within various festival segments. The screening of two of our documentaries, Kalina Alabrudzińska’s ‘Destination: Iceland’ and Paweł Ferdek’s ‘Beautiful Misunderstanding’, will take be shown during the Student Etude Night. The same night we are going to present two feature films produced within the ‘30 minutes’ programme: ‘Aria Diva’ by Agnieszka Smoczyńska and ‘On Credit’ by Przemysław Nowakowski.

In the Polish Film Panorama segment there will be screened films that were produced within the ‘First Documentary’ programme run by the Andrzej Wajda Film School in cooperation with the A. Munk ‘Młodzi i Film’ Studio which is part of the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish Film Institute and the Polish Public Television: ‘Woman Wanted’ by Michał Marczak, ‘Mother’ by Jakub Piątek. Also in that segment there will be shown a film directed by Kristoffer Karlsson Rus called ‘Street Feeling’ (executive producer – the Andrzej Wajda Film School, producers – Education Promotion Institute, Operon Educational Publishing House and Harpoon Films).

In the Polish film competition there will also run a film whose production was supported by the A. Wajda Film School: ‘Rabit a la Berlin’ directed by our graduate – Bartek Konopka and produced by MS Films.

It has been a yet another time the Andrzej Wajda Film School has been presenting its films at this prestigious festival. Last year our productions won various awards: the Silver Dragon, the Silver Lajkonik that went to Agnieszka Smoczyńska for ‘Aria Diva’, the Polish Filmmakers Association’s Award for film editing to Wojtek Jagiełło. Kuba Maciejko for ‘Felgarz z Woli [the Wheel Rim Man of Wola’ won the Maciej Szumowski Award and Michał Jóźwiak received Cracow Students Jury Honorary Diploma for the film ‘Henio, idziemy na Widzew [Henio, We’re Going for Widzew’. Last year’s festival jury also decided to award us in the Best Short Film and Documentary Producer category.   

SCREENINGS OF WAJDA SCHOOL FILMS AT THE CRACOW FILM FESTIVAL:

30th May, 3 PM
Pod Baranami Cinema, the Blue Screening Room, Rynek Główny 27:
‘Woman Wanted’ dir. Michał Marczak
‘Mother’ dir. Jakub Piątek

30th May, 8.15 PM
Pod Baranami Cinema, the Blue Screening Room, Rynek Główny 27:
‘Aria Diva’ dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
‘Destination: Iceland’ dir. Kalina Alabrudzińska
‘On Credit’ dir. Przemysław Nowakowski
‘Beautiful Misunderstanding’ dir. Paweł Ferdek

31st May, 1 PM
Kijów Cinema, the Large Screening Room, Al. Krasińskiego 34:
‘Andrzej Wajda: Let’s Shoot!’ dir. the Paladino Film Group

31st May, 3 PM
Pod Baranami Cinema, the Blue Screening Room, Rynek Główny 27:
‘On Credit’ dir. Przemysław Nowakowski

1st July, 4.30 PM
Mikro Cinema, ul. J. Lea 5
‘The Sleepwalkers’ dir. Maciej Sterło-Orlicki

2nd July, 7.30 PM
Mikro Cinema, ul. J. Lea 5
‘Andrzej Wajda: Let’s Shoot!’ dir. the Paladino Film Group

2nd July, 8.15 PM
Pod Baranami Cinema, the Blue Screening Room, Rynek Główny 27:
‘Street Feeling’ dir. Kristoffer Karlsson Rus

4th July, 1 PM
Kijów Cinema, the Large Screening Room, Al. Krasińskiego 34
‘The Sleepwalkers’ dir. Maciej Sterło-Orlicki

 

(May 2009)