10 YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS OF THE WAJDA SCHOOL!
A number of special events will emphasise Wajda School's activity in the world of documentary films: at the largest and one of the most renowned documentary film festivals around the world - IDFA in Amsterdam, DOX Magazine as well as on the Doc Alliance Films website.
During the 24th edition of IDFA in Amsterdam, known as one of the most important festivals of documentary films in the world, the Wajda School celebrated its 10th anniversary on 19 November. There was a special event - ‘Guests Meet Guests” - co-organised with the 5th anniversary of Polish Docs. Furthermore, the documentary ‘Paparazzi’ by Piotr Bernaś, which has been nominated for the European Film Academy Awards, will have its Dutch premiere at the IDFA Competition in the Student Documentary section.
Attached to the winter issue of the International Documentary Film Magazine ‘DOX’ will be a DVD with three great short documentaries focused on life’s essential questions: freedom, love, loneliness and getting old. ‘3 Days of Freedom’ (2011), ‘Decrescendo’, and ‘Dog Hill’ have been chosen specially to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wajda School, Poland.
An important point of the Wajda School’s anniversary will be an event organised by Doc Alliance Films. On www.dafilms.com from 21 to 27 November, the best ten documentaries from the Wajda School will be available for free: ‘Dog Hill’, by Grzegorz Zariczny, ‘Viva Maria!’ by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, ‘Black Daughter’ by Anna Skorupa, ‘3 Days of Freedom’ by Łukasz Borowski, ‘Decrescendo’ by Marta Minorowicz, ‘Rendez-vous’ by Marcin Janos Krawczyk, ‘Take a Look’ by Adam Palenta and one of the oldest documentaries made at the Wajda School – ‘Silence I’ by Maciej Cuske, Robert Gliński, Edyta Wróblewska, Tomasza Wolski, Bartek Konopka and Marcin Bortkiewicz, as well as ‘Behind the Fence’ by Marcin Sauter. During the weekend of 26-27 of November there will be screenings of ‘Paparazzi’ by Piotr Bernaś, immediately after its premiere at the IDFA Festival.
The next celebration of the Wajda School’s 10th anniversary will be organised at the Plus Camerimage Festival in Bydgoszcz (26 November to 3 December) and as part of the Andrzej Wajda retrospective ‘Andrzej Wajda – Known and Unknown’ in Berlin (2 to 30 December).
More at: www.wajdaschool.pl.