Four etudes produced at the Kieślowski Film School have been selected for the International Short Film Competition at the 16th Lublin Film Festival. The competition selections comprise 133 short films from all over the world. The 16th Lublin Film Festival takes place from November 18 to November 26 at the Cultural Center in Lublin.

Here are our films up for the International Short Film Competition:

• “The Limit of Control” (2021), director: Piotr Michalak // cinematography: Piotr Michalak // production management: Ewa Dubiel, Tomasz Antkowiak
• “Slave” (2021), director: Grzegorz Piekarski // cinematography: Antoni Grałek // production management: Natalia Pietsch, Maja Zaleska, Grzegorz Piekarski, Antoni Grałek
• “Imprisoned” (2021), director: Piotr Bieliński // cinematography: Marek Kita, Jan Barszczewski // production management: Maja Krężel
• “The Sky Was Beautiful Yesterday” (2022), director: Jędrzej Ziembiński // cinematography: Krzysztof Świderski // production manager: Tomasz Antkowiak

The competition films also included a documentary directed by our film school graduate and lecturer, Andrzej Cichocki, “A Little Bit of Paradise” (2020). In addition, the films of our graduates, “Beyond is the Day” (2020), directed by Damian Kocur, and “We Have One Heart” (2020), directed by Katarzyna Warzecha, have also been selected for the competition.

The Lublin Film Festival is one of Poland’s most prominent festivals of independent cinema. The program of this year’s edition includes nearly 150 short and full-length productions from around the world. The theme of this year’s festival is freedom.