17 films produced at the Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia will be presented during the 7. Play Poland Film Festival. The festival will be held on November 11-25, 2021 in the UK.

As part of the festival, the following shorts will be presented:

• Roots (2019) dir. Kuba Gryżewski
• Mother's Day (2021) dir. Patryk Kaflowski
• Flora (2021) dir. Karolina Monwid-Olechnowicz
• Helen 25/65 (2020) dir. Joanna Różniak
• Kattowitz (2020) dir. Michał Piotrowski
• A Flower of One Night (2019) dir. Nat Szada
• Love (2019) dir. Michał Ciechomski
• Mother Dear (2020) dir. Zuzanna Sorówka
• Never Good (2019) dir. Paweł Slowny
• Anew (2020) dir. Zofia Sawicka
• Last Days of Summer (2020) dir. Klaudia Kęska
• The Siblings (2020) dir. Michał Rakowski
• Skin (2019) dir. Mateusz Znaniecki
• The Depth (2020) dir. Martyna Ludwig
• Submission (2020) dir. Michał Ciechomski
• East West (2020) dir. Natalia Koniarz
• Vyraj (2020) dir. Agnieszka Nowosielska

Play Poland Film Festival is the largest mobile film event in the UK promoting contemporary Polish cinema. During this year's festival, meetings with authors, competitions, conferences, workshops and interviews with directors and artists will be held on a specially built online VOD platform, with several channels filled with live events.

In addition to film projects from various categories, the festival will show virtual exhibitions and film reviews. Play Poland Film Festival will address the subject of social and psychological problems caused by the pandemic. The vision of the post-covid future and ways of dealing with the new reality will be offered. Ecological issues, mass disinformation and infodemia will also be addressed. The program includes works by young artists who look at the problems of the modern world and a film section devoted to Stanisław Lem and his work.

Detailed program at: link

08 November 2021

2021 edition of the Raindance Film Festival in London continues until November 6, 2021. This year, the Curzon cinema showed, among others, our students' film "Mother's Day" dir. Patryk Kafolowski, DoP Patryk Roman, who, after winning the International Competition at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival in India, was also qualified for an Oscar.

Our students' film is shown in the Relative States short film program: link

Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in Great Britain.

The trip of our students to this event was possible thanks to a scholarship established by the Director of the Polish Film Institute.

05 November 2021

The film "Mother's Day" directed by Patryk Kaflowski, produced at the Kieślowski Film School is now on the so-called long Oscar-winning list appreciating short fictional films. The 15 titles that will be included in the shortlist of candidates for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards will be announced on December 21, 2021.

Patryk Kaflowski's film tells the story of a young, pregnant woman who has to deal with complications during childbirth. A female fox wandering around the area looking for food is a witness to the fight for the baby.

The cinematographer for the film is Patryk Roman. Michał Walter and Patryk Kaflowski were responsible for the editing. Krzysztof Lang was responsible for pedagogical supervision over the production. The producer of the film is Krystyna Doktorowicz (Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia).

"Mother's Day" had its world premiere during the 40th edition of the Koszalin Festival of Film Debuts “Young and Film”. The film won the International Competition at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival in India, receiving the Oscar qualification at the same time. Currently, the film is presented at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival - the largest independent film festival in Great Britain.

The 94th American Film Academy Awards Gala is scheduled for March 27, 2022. The nominees will be announced on February 8.

04 November 2021

The film "Submission" (2020), dir. Michał Ciechomski produced at the Kieślowski Film School received FRAPA 2021 in the Category Hero at the 10th Festival of Interesting Films in Gorzów Wielkopolski. The jury appreciated the "creation of an interesting, grotesque and at the same time real "everyman" entangled in the system, faced with a choice between the good of the individual and the community and reminding us that history likes to repeat itself".

On the other hand, FRAPA 2021 in the Category Form was awarded to the film by our employee, Wojciech Sankiewicz, "C'est La Vie" (directed by Bartosz Terlicki, Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz).

Full list of FRAP 2021 laureates: link

26 October 2021