REPRESENTATION OF POLISH DOCUMENTARY IN RUSSIA

Fifteen titles in the retrospective of the newest Polish documentary cinema and three films in the international competition – this is how the part of this year’s programme of International Documentary Film Festival “Flahertiana” in Perm in Russia will look.

The name of the festival “Flahertiana” comes from one of the worldwide precursor of documentary cinema – Robert Flaherty’s name (1884 – 1951), the american director of famous documentary “Nanook of the North” (1922). The Flaherty’s output has become an inspiration for the festival organizers to create an unique character during the event in Perm. What is more, the awards given at the festival refer to the silhouette of title’s protagonist of the first Flaherty’s film.

The pillar of the festival “Flahertiana” is the international competition. This year the members of the jury – that is: Viktor Lisakovich (Russian filmmaker, President of the Jury), Andrey Bezukladnikov (Russian photographer, producer of a web site photographer.ru), Laima Freimane (Producer from Latvia), Lubomir Georgiev (producer and filmmaker working in Brussels) and Marc Isaacs (documentary filmmaker from UK) – will judge the documentaries from all over the world, and from Poland as well. Three Polish films qualified for the international competition programme: “North from Calabria” by Marcin Sauter, “At the Edge of Russia” by Michał Marczak and “Chemo” by Paweł Łoziński.

In addition, the audience in Perm will have the opportunity of watching the vast range of the newest Polish documentaries (produced in 2009 and 2010) within the frames of the programme called “Polish Films”. The following titles will be shown:

* „Andrzej Wajda: Let’s shoot!”, dir. Mar­cin Sauter, Maciej Cuske, Thierry Paladino, Piotr Stasik

* „Unemployed”, dir. Nastia Tarasova

* „Without sight”, dir. Radosław Jędrzej­czak

* “Side­track”, dir. Anna Kazejak

* „Down­town”, dir. Piotr Śliwowski, Marta Dzido

* „Lovers”, dir. Rafał Skal­ski

* „Honeymoon”, dir. Grzegorz Krawiec

* „Chasm”, dir. Woj­ciech Kasperski

* “Getting on”, dir. Renata Gabryjel­ska

* „Flightless Birds”, dir. Michał Dawidowicz

* „The Lucky Ones”, dir. Tomasz Wol­ski

* „Six Weeks”, dir. Mar­cin Janos Krawczyk

* „That’s life…”, dir. Daniel Zieliń­ski

* „Where the sun doesn’t rush”, dir. Matej Bobrik

* „War­saw available”, dir. Karolina Bielaw­ska, Julia Rusz­kiewicz

It is not the first time that Polish films have been presented at the festival in Perm. During the last year’s edition two Polish documentaries, „Poste restante” by Marcel Łoziński and „Till it hurts…" by Marcin Koszałka appeared in the competition, however, as the part of the non­competitive programme, called „Polish Films” there were seven productions: „Burned Out” by Anna Więckowska, „III. Remember the Sabbath and Keep It Holy” by Maciej Cuske, „Get Me Out of Here” by Igor Mołodecki, „Atijat, the First Wife” by Anna Błaszczyk, „Goldfish” by Tomasz Wolski, „Sisters” by Paweł Łoziński and „That’s the way It Is” by Paweł Łoziński.

In addition to this, at the „Flahertiana” festival in 2006 the award „Big Silver Nanook” for the best short documentary film was given to Wojciech Kasperski’s „Seeds”.

This year’s edition of the International Documentary Film Festival „Flahertiana” in Perm will start 14th October and last till 20th October.

More information on the website: www​.flaher​tiana​.ru