“LOVE” TRIUMPHS IN KRAKOW

The Winners of 53th Krakow Film Festival have been announced. Polish documentaries were awarded in both national and international competitions. The Golden Hobby Horse as well as People Choice Award went to the documentary film as well. „Love” by Filip Dzierżawski proved the great Winner of this year’s edition of the festival!

 In the International Documentary Competition judged by the jury led by  Sergey Dwortsevoy, the verdict was surprising as the Silver Horn was given not to one but two films – „Father and son” by Paweł Łoziński and „Father and Son on a Journey” by Marcel Łoziński. The Łozinski’s at the beginning planned to co-direct the film however at the stage of the editing it turned out that they cannot find the common way of putting the film together thus decided to split and make two versions of the very same story. However the Jury considered both films as one, bonded  and complementary film experiment. The Golden Horn of the very same competition went to Tora Mårtens for her „Colombianos“ (Sweden, Finland).

The jury of the National  Competition led by Adam Sikora have chosen „Love” by Filip Dzierżawski as the Best Film of the Competition. The very same film immediately became the favourite of Krakow’s audience that presented the documentary by Dzierżawski with the People Choice Award. The Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Documentary Film went to Bartosz M. Kowalski for his “A dream in the Making” “for taking an analytical look at the inhabitants of a Warsaw housing complex. It's a brutal, full of aggression story about an escape from the margins of society into the territory of the 'normals'”. Piotr Stasik received a Special Mention for his “A Diary of a Journey”. The President of TVP SA (Polish Television) Award for the Best Cinematography went to Mateusz Skalski for his cinematography for “A dream in the making”, while the President of the Association on Polish Filmmakers Award was handed over to Agnieszka Elbanowska – the director of “The Love Equation of Henry Fast”.

Maciej Szumowski Award for remarkable social awareness founded by the National Broadcasting Council went to Bartosz M. Kowalski for his “A dream in the making”. The Award for the Best Short and Documentary Films Producer in Poland was given to Piotr Kielar from Lifetime Productions for the documentary “Love”. In the meantime the “Love XXXXL” by Joanna Frydrych proved  the Best Project of Dragon Forum pitching and received the HBO Development Award. 

The complete verdict can be found here