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FESTIWAL POLSKICH FILMOW FABULARNYCH (POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN GDYNIA)

Last year online only, this year mostly in Gdynia, 20-25 September. Some tourists have made the event their regular and travel to Gdynia at the time specifically for the reason. Usually 50 movies are submitted for the main competition, this year 46, in spite of the pandemic.18 screening rooms in the city will show the festival offer. Short films, microbudget productions, outside the competition ones and discussions will take place online. Some of the productions have been reviewed on my blog already. "Mój syn zamyka się w łazience" ("My Son Locks Himself in the Bathroom") and "Stancja" ("The Last Room on the Left") - I'm rooting for this one - will be in the short film competition. Nothing from Gdynia Film School because admissions are every two years so etudes are made biannually. Studio Munka, for graduates, is represented. Małgorzata Szumowska presides over the jury. 5 films are in the microbudget competition. Swedish director working in Poland Magnus von Horn presides over it. 16 movies in the main competition, including "Ciotka Hitlera" ("Hitler's Aunt"), "Najmro", "Zupa nic" ("Back Then "), "Źeby nie było śladów" ("Leave No Traces") by Jan Matuszyński whose first film won the competition. Platynowe Lwy (Platinum Lions) will be awarded by SFP (the Polish Filmmakers Association) to Agnieszka Holland, 3-time festival winner. Żuławski's "Na Srebrnym Globie" ("On the Silver Globe") is going to be screened among classics (the 1988 version after reconstruction), along with 4 short films based on Stanisław Lem's prose. Polonica will include "Wolka" by director Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, educated in Poland. Other festival offerings are: "Amatorzy", "Po złoto" ("Going for Gold"), "Spacer z aniołami" ("Walk With Angels"). Events will focus on old-timers.