On May, 29 the 56th Kraków Film Festival will begin - one of the leading European festivals dedicated to documentary and short films. The program of this year's edition includes five films produced by Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television. Their premiere screenings will take place in Kraków.

The following films have been classified to the Polish Competition:

• Daniel, dir. Anastazja Dąbrowska, DoP Robert Lis (world premiere)
• The Return, dir. Damian Kocur, DoP Kacper Sędzielewski (world premiere)

The following short films have been included in the program of the Polish Film Panorama:

• Summer, dir. Karol Lindholm, DoP Martyna Jakimowska (world premiere)
• The Afterimage, dir. and DoP Piotr Dudak (Polish premiere)
• It Happens, dir. Arek Biedrzycki, DoP Piotr Pawlus (world premiere).

More information can be found on the festival’s official website.

Film What I Want, produced by the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television, has been - as the only Polish title - shortlisted for the Next Generation Competition, which will take place at the International Short Film Festival in Brussels (Belgium). Film by Damian Kocur was previously presented and awarded at many festivals at home and abroad, among others in Belgrade, Gdynia, Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn and Lagow.

The festival will begin in Brussels on April 27 and will last until May 8. See the official website for more information.

The winning streak of the film Hurly-Burly, produced by Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television, continues. The short film directed by Kuba Czekaj and with Adam Palenta as a DoP, is present in the programs of several international festivals that will be held in April:

- 10th International Film Festival NexT, which began yesterday in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The film takes part in the International Competition;
- Riverside Short Film Festival, which begins tomorrow in New Haven (USA). The film is the competition section;
- 28th International Short Film Festival in Dresden (Germany), which will begin on April 12. The film will be presented in a special show of the most interesting Polish short films, prepared by the Krakow Film Foundation;
- Short Film Week, which starts on April 11 in Madrid (Spain). Here, as in the case of the festival in Dresden, “Hurly burly” will be a part of the presentation of Polish short films, which were prepared the Krakow Film Foundation.

Until now Hurly-Burly has been presented at over 30 festivals in the country and abroad.

Film Larp, produced by Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television, has won yet another award. This time the short film, directed by Kordian Kądziela and with pictures by Piotr Chodura, was appreciated by the jury of the Short Film and Animation Festival Mecal in Barcelona, who awarded the director with a Short TV Award. This is another success of the award-winning film, among others, in St. Petersburg, Brest and Brno. So far Larp was presented at almost 30 festivals in the country and abroad.

Mecal is one of the most important short film festivals in Spain. More information about the festival can be found on its official website.