MARCH SHORT FILM FESTIVALS

This month brings nearly 45 festival’s screenings. There are 28 festivals that programmed Polish short films bringing them a chance of competing for the awards and special mentions.

Festival’s March schedule will be opened by one of the oldest European film festivals – the Finnish Tampere – which this year will be held for the 43rd time. There, among films competing for the festival’s Grand Prix one can easily track four Polish titles – “What happens when children don’t eat soup” by Paweł Prewencki, “Camp” by Tomasz Jeziorski, “Mother” by Łukasz Ostalski and “Our bad winter” by Grzegorz Zariczny – first time screened abroad. It is worth noting that after receiving  the Grand Prix of Sundance Festival for a documentary “The Whistle”, Zariczny screens his film at five festivals this month – Docudays, Vilnius FF, Dawson City FF, German Football FF and Slovak Febio Fest.

“All Souls’ Day” by Aleksandra Terpińska, screened lately in French Clermont-Ferrand, hits now the festivals in Lithuania, The Netherlands and Slovakia (Febiofest). The last one features even more Polish films in the competition - “Paper box” (Z. Czapla), “The Whistle” (G. Zariczny) and “Watermelon” (T. Kotetishvili). This month’s record holder is the Dutch Flicks that will screen seven Polish student films – apart from above mentioned “All Souls’ Day” and “Watermelon” by Tato Kotetishivili also “Wolf’s clothing” by Olga Kałagate and “Eighteen birthday” by Marta Prus to name just a few. The screening at Czech FebioFest will open the doors to international festivals for “Hamster” by Bartek Ignaciuk.

Also animated films stand a chance of receiving awards this month. “What happens when children don’t eat soup” got four festival invitations and will be screened in Finland, Iran, Greece and Portugal. There are three Polish animations programmed in the 16th edition of Holland Animation Film Festival – “Once there was a king”, “Steven and the Beatle” and “Toto” – the latest film by Zbigniew Czapla, that will celebrate its world premiere in The Netherlands.

In the meantime the leaders of last year’s ranking don’t rest on their laurels. In March documentary “Written in ink” by Martin Rath will be screened at Byron Bay (Australia), One World (Czech Republic), Docudays (Ukraine) and ECU FF in France. “Frozen stories” by Grzegorz Jaroszuk was invited to screen in French Lille and at Bergamo Film Meeting in frame of school’s screening.  At French Roanne FF one will get the chance of watching “Noise” by Przemysław Adamski – the most frequently screened animation of the last year.


The complete list of March festival to be found in “at festivals” tab


In the picture above: "Our bad winter" dir. Grzegorz Zariczny