With the beginning of the year, festival life of short films slowly starts. Check out where Polish cinema will be present this month.

The first screening will be held far away, in Australia. The viewers of the International Short Film Festival Flickerfest will see "A Documentary Film" by Marcin Podolec and the film "The Naturals" by Kristoffer Rus. A couple of days later, at the festival in Frames, India, "A Long Time Ago in Silesia" by Tomasz Proktowicz will be included in the competition. On the other side of the globe, at Slamdance festival in the USA, "Super Unit" by Teresa Czepiec will compete for the award.

The festival January ends with Premieres Plan Film Festival in France, where "Woolen Cogwheels" by Bartosz Kędzierski, "Fences" by Natalia Krawczuk, and "Daughter" by Tomasz Wolski will be shown.

The end of the month is also the International Film Festival in Trieste, at which Polish cinema will be the special guest.

In the Short Film Competition, two Polish films will compete: "7 sheep" by Wiktoria Szymańska and "What I Want" by Damian Kocur, whereas "A Documentary Film" is included in the animated film section.

This year, the festival's special event will be the retrospective of documentary films by Marcin Koszałka. The audience in Italy will have a chance to see also some short documentary films by the director: "All Day Together," "The Declaration of Immortality," "Till It Hurts" and feature-length productions. The screening of the films will be accompanied by a master class given by the director – "In conversation with Marcin Koszałka," during which he will tell about his work as a director and cameraman. It is worthwhile to mention that the feature-film début by Koszałka, "The Red Spider," was included in the Main Competition at this edition of the festival.

27th edition of Trieste International Film Festival will also include screenings of full-length Polish feature films. In the special section "The Double Life of Polish cinema," the film "11 Minutes" by Jerzy Skolimowski will be shown, as well as Krzysztof Kieślowski retrospective, connected to the Year of Krzysztof Kieślowski, celebrated in 2016, twenty years after his death. In Italy, the film "Demon" by Marcin Wrona will also be shown.

JANUARY 2016