The short film "Last Days of Summer" (2020), dir. Klaudia Kęska with cinematography by Kamil Małecki produced at the Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia returns from the 36th edition of the Brest European Short Film Festival in France with as many as 3 awards!

"Last Days of Summer" received:

• The Audience Award in the European Competition
• Young Jury Award
• Prize of the "Des Passeurs de Courts" federation awarded by a Jury composed of employees and volunteers of the Cinéphare cinema network

The full list of winners at:  link

The European Short Film Festival in Brest is a film festival dedicated to short films. It has been organized since 1987 in the city of Brest, in the Brittany region of France. The 36th edition of the festival was held on November 9-14, 2021.

14 November 2021

The film "Submission" (2020), dir. Michał Ciechomski with cinematography by Paweł Grabarek, produced at the Kieślowski Film School received the Jan Machulski Awards in the Best Film category. The production managers of the awarded film were: Matylda Jastrząb and Maria Puch.

Among the winners of this year's Jan Machulski Awards, there are also our graduates.

• Damian Kocur for the film "Beyond is the day" in the Best Director category
• Katarzyna Warzecha for the film "We Have One Heart" in the Best Screenplay category
• Martyna Jakimowska for the film "The Last Whistle", dir. Karol Lindholm in the Best Cinematography category
• Paweł Chorzępa for the film "Sonny" in the category Best Documentary

The honours were awarded by the Jury of the Jan Machulski Awards in 2021, composed of: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Gabriela Muskała, Piotr Dylewski, Maciej Makowski and Michał Rytel-Przełomiec.

Awards were created for all filmmakers who create short films. In their assumption, they are to be the most prestigious Polish distinction dedicated to the creators of Polish short film. The first edition took place in 2005.

09 November 2021

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