Krzysztof Komeda – a Polish medic, Jazz pianist and film composer. His music gained cult-status in Poland. Everywhere else in the world especially his soundtracks stay in mind forever. With compositions like the lullaby for Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of film music.
The melodious, often melancholic sounds of his music seem to be like the soundtrack for his own dramatic life story: Komeda was an icon of artistic opposition to the communist Poland of the 50s and 60s. He left for America and discovered a completely different way of life. But in 1969 he has a tragic accident and dies at the height of his career only 37 years of age.
The film essay Komeda – A Soundtrack for a life is mainly a reflection on Komeda’s soundtracks and their connection to his life. But it is also a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artist in the 50s and 60s
time : 52 min.
year: 2010
Awards:
- Special Prize FIPA D’ARGENT in category PERFORMING ARTS at Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz 2010.
time: 43 min.
year: 2009
Awards:
- Special Award Of The President Of The Polish Filmmakers Association – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2009
- Złota Rybka (The Golden Fish) – Ińsk Film Festival – For The Best Polish Film – 2009
The documentary had already its television premiere on the 4th. November, Channel 1 of the Polish national TV.
time: 43 min.
year: 2009
Rewards:
- Grand Prix, An Event of NURT 2009 – The 15th Polish Independent Review of Documentaries, Kielce 2009
Piotr Tymochowicz Public Relations advisor has decided to prove that anybody can be molded into a politician.
time : 90 min.
year : 2006
Nagrody :
- Grand Prix- Biała Kobra (White Cobra), Łódź 2006
- Złote Zęby (White Teeth) – Polish Film Festival, Chicago 2006
- Audience Prize – NURT, KIELCE 2006
- Jancio Wodnik – Nagroda Organizatorów Festiwalu, Września 2007
- Charaktery Magazine Prize, KIELCE 2006
- The Hertie Documentary Award, Wiesbaden – Germany 2007
time : 7 min.
year : 2006
Nagrody :
- Best Polish Animated Film, Łódź 2006
A nostalgic reminiscence of the ‘Pod Orłem’ pharmacy that was located in the middle of Krakow’s ghetto in plac Zgody (Concord Square), which is now plac Bohaterów Getta (Krakow’s Ghetto Heroes Square) and of its owner, Tadeusz Pankiewicz. Since 1941 it was a centre of aid for Jewish people. Pankiewicz gave shelter to the displaced Jews and provided them with necessary medicines, often risking his life.
time : 46 min.
year : 2006
Nagrody :
- Best Documentary – Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award, Los Angeles 2008
Andrzej Dudziński creates his art in Poland and United States of America. Janusz Głowacki sais that everything that Dudzinski do is great. He paints, draws, etc. In this film he talks about his life, art and hobbys.
time : 43 min.
year : 2006
Nagrody :
- Best Editing – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2006
Jurek lives in Tel Aviv, Stella – in Boston. They met in 1936 in Otwock and fell in love from the first sight. They were divided by the war – Jurek went to Auschwitz, Stella was sent to work in Germany. The last letter from Stella came in 1945. After the war he had spent a long time looking for her until he found out that she had got married. Then he met Nora. They lived together for 57 years. Now, after all those years, he suggested to Stella they should meet again in Otwock
time : 47 min.
year : 2006
Nagrody :
- Audience Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2006
- Head Of TVP Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2006
- Brazen Fenix – “Jewish Motives” Film Festival, Warsaw 2006
- Prize – Crossroads Of Europe, Lublin 2007
- REMI Brazen Prize – 40. Annual WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, Houston 2007
- Special Prize GZDOC, Guangzhou 2007
In early 90s the policeman – Siergiej Torov, a traffic policeman was on a trolley bus and, as he claims, experienced a revelation. He understood that he was yet another embodiment of Christ. He adopted the name of Vissarion. Together with his followers in Siberian taiga he built the City of Sun which is to give rise to a new civilization. The film’s protagonist, Igor Novikov, is one of the five thousand followers of Vissarion and disciple.
time : 46 min.
year : 2005
Rewards:
- Special Prize For Young Authors – NURT, Kielce 2005
- Srebrna Iglica (Silver Spire) – OFFensiva, Wrocław 2006
- Special Prize – Rozstaje Europy, Lublin 2006
- Head Of SFP Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2006
God is with them, with men from north Albania. It is one of the kind place where women can become men, and have his rights and duties.
time : 47 min.
year : 2005
Rewards :
- Head Of Ministry Of Culture Prize – NURT, Kielce 2005
Darek and Michał bought from a school the copies of old Polish 16 mm films and a projector. During holidays they tour around Poland with therir “travelling cinema”. They arrive at small towns stretched from the Baltic Sea to Silesia and offer projections for adults and children. On the way they meet a lot of interesting people, help with the harvest and ‘bring cinema under the thatches roofs’
time : 52 min.
year : 2005
Rewards:
- Srebrny Lajkonik (Silver Lajkonik) – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2006
- REMI Brazen Prize – 40. Annual WorldFest – Houston International Film Festival, Houston 2007
The film is based upon the interview carried out by A. Marek Drążewski and Jerzy Diatłowicki with Władysław Szpilman in 1977. This is a life story of an eminent composer with a special regard to his dramatic experiences during the World War II.
time : 57 min.
year : 2004
Rewards :
- NURT Prize, Kielce 2004
- Fenix – ZAiKS Prize – Warsaw Jewish Festiwal, Warsaw 2005
The main character of the film is Henrietta Kretz-Daniszewska, a Pole of Jewish origin, born before the World War II in Lvov, now living in Belgium. She tells her tragic experiences from the times of German occupation in Poland. She describes the terrifying time as seen by a child she was then.
time : 34 min.
year : 2004
Rewards :
- First Prize – Warsaw Jewish Festiwal, Warsaw 2004
Krzysztof Drewniak wanted to be a film-maker. He carved himself a wooden camera and began to film the world with it. His dream of a real camera will be fulfilled if a real film crew come to make a film about him.
time : 21 min.
year : 2002
Rewards :
- Jury Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2003
- Przekrój Magazine Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2003
Stories of dissidents from Eastern Europe – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the former East Germany from World War II to the present day.
time : 57 min.
year : 2002
Rewards :
- Head Of TVP Prize – NURT, Kielce 2002
- Prix Europa, Berlin 2002
The life story of Jan Himilsbach, mason, writer and actor – a cult personality. Half feature, half documentary, with extensive archive from other films.
time : 52 min.
year : 2002
Rewards :
- Grand Prix Złoty Lajkonik (Golden Lajkonik) – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2002
- Kodak Prize – Cracow Film Festival, Cracow 2002
A friendship between two young people in the most dramatic circumstances.
time : 46 min.
year : 2001
Rewards :
- Kino Magazine Prize, Festival Prize – Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Warszawa 2003
An optimistic and hopeful attitude to life from a woman who has had AIDS for several years.
time : 21 min.
year : 2000
Rewards :
- NURT Prize, Kielce 2000
A Swiss man from Zurich comes Poland together with his family and starts his own farm and production of cheese in the north-west part of Poland.
time : 24 min.
year : 2000
Rewards :
- NURT Prize, Kielce 2000
time : 29 min.
year : 2000
Rewards :
- Audience Prize NURT, Kielce 2001
Director’s sentimental trip with his 80-year-old uncles. New shots are mixed with the old ones taken 70 years ago by one of these uncles – Stefan Doerffer.
time : 35 min.
year : 2000
Rewards :
- Brązowy Lajkonik (Brazen Lajkonik), Cracow 2001
- MFF Prize, Cracow 2001
- Input, RPA 2001
Bernard Dobrowolski, an enthusiastic photographer, unable to move from his bed because of a serious spinal disease. He continues his passions in his very small flat which he shares with his ill father.
time : 57 min.
year : 1999
Rewards :
- German TV Prize, Lipsk 1999
- Złoty Lajkonik (Golden Lajkonik), Cracow 2000
- Złoty Smok (Golden Dragon), Cracow 2000
- Kodak Prize, Cracow 2000
- Special Prize TIDF, Taiwan 2000
- Grand Prix, Neubrandenburg 2000
A story of a relationship between 5-year-old Damian and an “adopted” grandpa, who despite his illness travels around Poland together with the boy.
time : 25 min.
year : 1999
Rewards :
- Brązowy Rycerz (Brazen Knight) Prize, Moscow 1999
- NURT Prize, Kielce 1999
A story of the five Polish siblings from the state orphanage in Szklarska Poręba, Poland, who were adopted by a young, childless, married couple from St. Louis, USA.
time : 55 min.
year : 1999
Rewards :
- Srebrny Lajkonik (Silver Lajkonik), Cracow 1999
- Input, Halifax Canada 2000
Tomasz Strzyżewski, the only censor to reveal the strictly confidential documents which rapidly become famous as “The Black Book of Censorship in the PPR” .
time : 56 min.
year : 1999
Rewards :
- NURT Prize, Kielce 1999
- Documentary Review Prize, Szczecin 1994
Urszula Flis’s farm in Szczecinek. The same film crew comes back after 23 years. Old friends’ memories in a friendly atmosphere. A camera records reality.
time : 48 min.
year : 1998
Rewards :
- Złoty Gołąb (Golden Pigeon), Lipsk 1998
- Don Quijote – IFFS Prize, Lipsk 1998
- III Prize, Bornholm 1998
- Special Prize, Tallin (Estonia) 1998
Blind children from Laski near Warsaw, Poland.
time : 20 min.
year : 1999
Rewards :
- NURT Prize, Kielce 1999
6-year old Tom on his scooter in the park. He stops a few elderly people and asks them difficult questions about life, death…
time : 40 min.
year : 1995
Rewards :
- IFFS Prize, Oberhausen 1995
- Culture Ministry of Nordrheun – Westfallen Prize, Oberhausen 1995
- Catholical Jury Prize, Oberhausen 1995
- First Prize, Bornholm 1995
- Kodak Prize, Bornholm 1995
- Grand Prix Złoty Smok (Golden Dragon), Cracow 1995
- Fipresci Prize, Cracow 1995
- Jury Special Prize, Łagów 1995
- Film Culture Club Prize, Łagów 1995
- Film Pro Magazin Festival Cracow, Cracow 1995
- Polityka Magazine Prize, 1995
- Polish Culture Foundation Prize, 1995
- Golden Spire, San Francisco 1996
- Input, Meksyk 1996
- Best Documentary Prize Word Television Festival, 1997
Brześć – a town on the border between Poland and the former Soviet Union. Due to a difference of the dimensions of the railway tracks in the Soviet Union and the rest of Europe, Bialorussian workers have to change a few thousands carriage wheels each day to let international trains into the territory of the former Soviet Union. Passengers from France, Germany, Holland watch it through the train windows… Two separate worlds?
time : 12 min.
year : 1993
The movie has been nominated for Oskar 1994 year.
Rewards :
- Grand Prix, Oberhausen 1993
- II Prize, Bornholm 1993
- Special Prize Jean d’arcy, Marseille 1993
- First prize for documentary, Villa do Conde 1993
- Special Prize, Łagów 1993
- Nomination Felix, Berlin 1994
- Grand Prix for documentary TVP, 1993
- Special Prize of EFA, Berlin 1993
- Grand Prix, Lipsk 1993
- Jury’s Special Prize, Clermont – Ferrand 1994
- Special Prize - Gold Gate, San Francisco 1994
- Grand Prix, Montreal (Quebec) 1994
- Prix Societe Radio-Canada, Monreal 1994
- Special Prize, Hamburg 1994
- III Award, Sydney 1995
- IDA AWARD, Los Angeles 1995
Problems of a young married couple in the days of the most important political events in Poland, 1991 – the first democratic parliamentary election.
time : 30 min.
year : 1992
Rewards :
- Media Prize, Łódż 1993
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