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CANNES 2008 Poland

Polish films at Cannes

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Jerzy Skolimowski’s Four Nights With Anna [+see also:
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, Tulpan [+see also:
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by Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy (co-produced by Pandora Film, Filmcontract, Cobra Films, Pallas Film, Producer's Company Slovo, KAZ Export Cinema) and Gugara by Andrzej Dybczak and Jacek Naglowski make up the Polish contingent at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

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Skolimowski’s film will open the 40th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight on May 15, Tulpan will be screened on May 23 in the Un Certain Regard section and the feature-length documentary by Dybczak and Naglowski is programmed to screen in the ACID (Association for Independent Film Distribution) sidebar on May 22.

Numerous other Polish titles will be presented on the Croisette. Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn [+see also:
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interview: Andrzej Wajda
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will have a special screening. The Polish Film Institute (PISF) have also prepared a selection of contemporary Polish films for the Film Market.

The Short Film Corner will screen four titles produced with funding from the "30 minutes" programme set up by the Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP) and co-financed by the PISF. These are Anna Maliszewska’s Room for a Quick One, Marcel Sawicki’s The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Aria Diva and Norah McGettigan’s What It's Like to Be My Mother.

The films by Anna Maliszewska and Marcel Sawicki were produced by Opus Film, and those by Agnieszka Smoczynska and Norah McGettigan were produced by the Andrzej Wajda Master School.

Producer Grzegorz Hajdarowicz will also attend Cannes and is among the Producers on the Move invited by European Film Promotion. Hajdarowicz – who heads Gremi Film Production – has co-produced films including Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching [+see also:
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and more recently Janusz Kaminski’s Hania.

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(Translated from French)

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