Ten-day Warsaw fest gets underway
Kicking off today is the 26th Warsaw Film Festival, where 15 features will vie for one of the three main gongs (Grand Prize, Best Director and Special Jury Prize) to be awarded at its close. The event, which will run until October 18, has a line-up of almost 140 features and 70 shorts from over 50 countries.
Opening with Alexey Uchitel’s Russian film The Edge, the festival will close with the world premiere of Damian Nenow’s Polish 3D animated short The City of Ruins. Made using photographs taken from planes in 1945, the latter film was produced by the Warsaw Rising Museum and Platige Image.
In international competition, highlights include Hungarian director Agnes Kocsis’s Adrienn Pál [+see also:
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film profile], which picked up honours this year at Gdynia and screened at Toronto, San Sebastian and Reykjavik, among other festivals.
The programme also includes the 1-2 Competition for debut and second features from across the world; the Free Spirit Competition for independent, innovative and rebellious productions; as well as documentary and short film competitions.
Finally, as usual, the Warsaw festival will host the CentEast Market, which aims to promote Eastern European film production.
(Translated from French)
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