10/03/2009

Presided by Agnieszka Holland, the Polish Film Academy presented the 11th Eagles Annual National Film Awards.

Crowned Best Film, Malgorzata Szumowska’s 33 Scenes from Life [+see also:
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Another major winner was Waldemar Krzystek’s Little Moscow [+see also:
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Four Nights With Anna [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Michal Rosa’s Scratch [+see also:
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Best European Film 2008 went to Julian Schnabel’s French production The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [+see also:
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Meanwhile, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to DoP Jerzy Wojcik, a figure of the so-called Polish School of Film movement, who made his mark in the late 1950s and 1960s, working with Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

(Translated from French)