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WARSAW 2018

The Warsaw Film Festival unveils this year’s programme

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- A total of 15 films, including nine European titles, will vie for the Warsaw Grand Prix this year

The Warsaw Film Festival unveils this year’s programme
7 Emotions by Marek Koterski

The 34th edition of the Warsaw Film Festival (WFF) will get going on 12 October with a special Gala Screening of A Tramway in Jerusalem [+see also:
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 by Amos Gitai. During the press conference, WFF director Stefan Laudyn said that there are those festivals that “are leading the way and those that imitate other festivals”, and added that this year, the WFF is joining the former group. “What is important is the freshness of the programme,” he said.

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The festival will present 15 world, 18 international, five European, 39 Eastern European and 28 Polish premieres. 30% of the films selected for the WFF were directed by female helmers. There are a few more interesting figures, though: there were almost 5,000 film submissions (1,858 full-length ones) from 61 countries for the programme, which features five competitive sections (International Competition, 1-2 Competition, Documentary Film Competition, Free Spirit Competition and Short Film Competition) and five non-competitive ones (Special Screenings, Classics from Poland, Discoveries, Family Cinema Weekend and the Best Shorts from Poland 2018).

Out of the 15 International Competition contenders, nine are European: 7 Emotions [+see also:
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by Marek KoterskiAngel [+see also:
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by Koen MortierThe Delegation [+see also:
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by Bujar AlimaniTwo Tickets Back [+see also:
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by Dmitriy MeskhievIrina [+see also:
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by Nadejda KosevaEden [+see also:
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by Barış AtayMoon Hotel Kabul [+see also:
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by Anca DamianPaul Sanchez is Back! [+see also:
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by Patricia Mazuy and Soledad [+see also:
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by Agustina Macri. The non-European films are: The Goose Goes South by Jae-ho Baek and Hee-seop LeeWe Are the Heat by Jorge NavasWorking Woman by Michal AviadEight out of Ten by Sergio Umansky BrenerSchool Service by Luisito Lagdameo Ignacio and The Fall by Zhou Lidong

The 1-2 Competition will present 15 films, and again, nine are European: Break [+see also:
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by Marc FouchardCore of the World [+see also:
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 by Natalia MeshchaninovaYuva [+see also:
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by Emre YeksanHer Job [+see also:
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by Nikos LabôtMihkel [+see also:
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by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, Thou Shalt Not Kill [+see also:
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 by Cătălin Rotaru and Gabi Virginia ȘargaNew Skin [+see also:
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by Alix Gentil, X - The eXploited [+see also:
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by Károly Ujj Mészáros and Take It or Leave It [+see also:
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by Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo. The rest of the world is represented by Pure Land by Zhenyu SunNew Life by André CarvalheiraHot Ashes by Junji KojimaMate by Dae-gun Jung, Satash by Tulegen Baitukenov and The Third Wife by Ash Mayfair

For the 14th time, the Warsaw Film Festival is organising its industry event, which since 2017 has been called the Warsaw Industry Days. The highlight of this section will be a panel focused on the financial incentives for audiovisual production that Poland will introduce later this year. Another special event is a meeting with long-time Toronto IFF director Piers Handling, who, as one of his duties, selected Polish films for the Canadian festival. Handling, Tolga Karacelik, Joanna Kos-KrauzeNik Powell and Marek Rozenbaum form the International Competition jury. The Warsaw Industry Days also includes: the Warsaw Screenings (a presentation of ten new Polish films, both shorts and full-length titles), Warsaw Works in Progress, Warsaw Next (a training programme for young filmmakers), the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project (a workshop for young film critics), Doc Lab Poland (a presentation of documentary works in progress), and an Open Workshop entitled “The Art of Film Editing”. 

The festival will be brought to a close by Antonio Morabito’s Forgive Us Our Debts on 20 October.

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