APRIL SHORT FILM FESTIVALS’ SCHEDULE

This month, Polish short films will be shown at 16 festivals, among others, in Germany, Finland and Iceland. There are over 40 screenings in store.

At the Icelandic Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival, seven Polish films made by film school students from, among others, Łodz and Katowice, were shown within the frames of a non-competitive student film screening. The audience of the Icelandic festival watched, among others, "Magma" by Paweł Maślona and "Rollercoaster" by Marek Marlikowski. In addition, during the accompanying screenings the Icelandic audience got the chance of watching the latest film by Jakub Pączek, called "The 128th Rat". Yesterday, the sixth edition of the festival Go Short began in the Dutch Nijmegen. In this year's competition the animated film "Toto" by Zbigniew Czapla and the documentary film "Rogalik" by Paweł Ziemilski will compete for the awards. In the non-competitive sections, "Watermelon" by Tato Kotetishivli and "Baths" by Tomek Ducki will be shown. In the second half of the month, the 16th edition of short film festival will kick off in Dresden, Germany. In this year's competition there are five Polish films, such as "Ziegenort" by Tomek Popakul and "The Hamster" by Bartek Ignaciuk to name just the two of them.

At the end of the month, eight Polish short films will be shown at the Mediawave festival in Hungary. Polish films have been selected and screened at the Hungarian festival annually for the last few years. The following films will compete in the competition: "Darling" by Izabela Plucińska, "Baths" by Tomek Ducki and "Danse Macabre" by Małgorzata Rżanek, as well as the documentaries "A Visit" by Matej Bobrik, "When I am a Bird" by Monika Pawluczuk and the short fiction "Indrivaren" by Michael Rendell. The festival ends on 3rd May. The film "Chicken" by Aleksandra Terpińska - the author of the award-winning "All Souls' Day" - this month will be shown abroad for the second time. The film was selected to the competition at the Kosovo festival in Pristina.

This month, the animated films keep pace with the fiction ones. At the Finnish festival Animatricks, three Polish films will take part in the competition: "Darling" by Izabela Plucińska, "Ars moriendi" by Miłosz Margański and "Baths" by Tomek Ducki. The German-Polish "Darling" by Izabela Plucińska remains the most popular animated film for the second month in a row. In April, the film will be featured in the programme of five European festivals. In the competition at the 21st edition of animated film festival in Stuttgart "Toto" by Zbigniew Czapla will screen while the aforementioned "Darling" by Izabela Plucińska will be screened as part of the panorama section. The German festival is one of the most important events in Europe, dedicated to animated films. Every year, the FMX market is held in parallel to the festival in Stuttgart. The names of the winners of the competition will be announced on 17 April. Next Wednesday - 9 April - the 30th edition of the Dutch festival Imagine will start, in which "Danse Macabre" by Małgorzata Rżanek will compete. Imagine is a member of European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation, and is one of the nominating festivals and its winners are automatically nominated for the annual Melies d'Or awards.

The complete list of April festivals' screening can be found here

You can check the list of screenings of documentaries planned for April for here