The film "Lolo" (2019), dir. Michał Piotrowski with cinematography by Fryderyk Potoczek produced at the Kieślowski Film School received the Mimi Derba award for Best Silent Short Film during the 6th edition of the Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México. The production managers of the awarded film were: Agata Jarmułowicz and Aleksandra Kubisa.

This year's jury included, among others Rossella Bergo and Iacopo Di Girolamo. In the justification of the juror Iacopo Di Girolamo we read, among others:

“The best short film of the contest, without a shadow of a doubt. The direction, costume design, makeup, interiors design, good cast, performances, músic, photography and, above it all, the script: everything’s perfect.”

"Lolo" is a steampunk story about where role swaps can lead. The title character is a cleaner who gets a chance to see what the world looks like from a completely different perspective.

16 December 2021

The film "Vyraj" (2020), dir. Agnieszka Nowosielska, cinematography Barbara Kaniewska, produced at the Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia was recognized as the best student film during this year's Macau International Short Film Festival. The prize was awarded by the jury: Andra Tévy (France), João Francisco Pinto (Portugal / Macau), Jay Lei (Macau).

The Macau International Short Film Festival has been taking place in Macau, China, since 2010. The festival is divided into two competitions: SHORTS - short films in the Documentary, Fiction and Animation categories, and VOLUME for music videos.

This year's edition of the festival was held on December 2-9, 2021. The SHORTS competition also featured "Last Days of Summer" (2020), dir. Klaudia Kęska.

13 December 2021

Short documentary "Holding Your Breath" (2021) directed by Katarzyna Sikorska with cinematography by Arkadiusz Powałka, produced at the Kieslowski Film School received the award - the Silver Mammoth at the 1st Polish Sports Film Festival in Zakopane.

In addition, among the laureates in the feature film category are also graduates of the Kieslowski Film School of the University of Silesia.

• Honorable Mention - Silver Mammoth - the film "Going for Gold" directed by Ksawery Szczepanik
• Audience Award - Bronze Mammoth - the film "Fury" directed by Krzysztof Kasior

The Festival of Polish Sports Films is a nationwide, competition review of the best achievements of documentary filmmaking in the broad sense of sports, intended exclusively for Polish filmmakers. The first edition of the festival was held on December 8-11, 2021 in Zakopane.

12 December 2021

Between 29.11 and 3.12. six students of Directing and Cinematography form Kieślowski Film School took part in the documentary film workshop “Portrait of a Protagonist” at C-Space in Berlin. The workshop was directed to young filmmakers and photographers from Poland and Germany.

During the 5 days group of 15 students under the supervision of renowned documentary filmmakers Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski pitched their ideas and created storyboards of their films, before setting off into the city to film their protagonists. The materials were later on edited in the studio and the final works presented during the last day of the workshop on Friday, 3th December.

The project was possible thanks to the cooperation of the Kieślowski Film School with the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin and received funding from the Foundation of the Polish-German Cooperation, Sanddorf-Stiftung, fsk-Kino and a publisher Falschrum Books.

09 December 2021