The application period for the Andrzej Munk Competition for debuting directors and cinematographers in the full-length feature film category is over and we have the results. The Munk Competition organized by the Lodz Film School since 1965 is one of the oldest film contests in Poland. The competition winners, among others are: Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Andrzej Żuławski.

This year, the following seventeen films entered the Munk Competition and received nominations:

53 WOJNY, direction: Ewa Bukowska, cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk, production: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

ATAK PANIKI, direction: Paweł Maślona, cinematography: Cezary Stolecki, production: Akson Studio
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction & Best Cinematography

CICHA NOC, direction: Piotr Domalewski, cinematography: Piotr Sobociński, production: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction.

DIVERSION END, direction: Michał Krzywicki, cinematography: Łukasz Suchocki, production: Rockzeline
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction and Best Cinematography

DZIEŃ CZEKOLADY, direction: Jacek Piotr Bławut, cinematography: Radosław Ładczuk, production: Aura Films Ltd.
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction.

DZIURA W GŁOWIE, direction: Piotr Subbotko, cinematography: Wojciech Staroń, production: Argomedia
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

JULIUSZ, direction: Aleksander Pietrzak, cinematography: Mateusz Pastewka, production: Gigant Films
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction and Best Cinematography

MOJA POLSKA DZIEWCZYNA, direction: Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek, cinematography: Michał Dymek, production: Warsaw Pact Films, PS Film
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction and Best Cinematography

NINA, direction: Olga Chajdas, cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk, production: Film It
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

ODNAJDĘ CIĘ, direction: Beata Dzianowicz, cinematography: Jacek Petrycki, production: WFDiF – Feature and Documentary Film Studio
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

OKNA, OKNA, direction: Wojciech Solarz, cinematography: Tomasz Nowak, production: Gardenia Saska Film
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction and Best Cinematography

OSTATNIA RODZINA, direction: Jan P. Matuszyński, cinematography: Kacper Fertacz, production: Aurum Film Bodzak Hickinbotham General Partnership
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

PHOTON, direction: Norman Leto, cinematography: Norman Leto, Michał Marczak, production: Lightcraft
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

UŁASKAWIENIE, direction: Jan Jakub Kolski, cinematography: Julian A. Ch. Kernbach, production: Wytwórnia Doświadczalna
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Cinematography

WIEŻA. JASNY DZIEŃ., direction: Jagoda Szelc, cinematography: Przemysław Brynkiewicz, production: Indeks Film Studio
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction

WSZYSTKIE NIESPRZESPANE NOCE, direction: Michał Marczak, cinematography: Michał Marczak, Maciej Twardowski
Nominations to the Munk Award in the categories Best Direction and Best Cinematography

VIA CARPATIA, direction: Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon, cinematography: Zuza Kernbach, Julian A.Ch, Kernbach, production: MD4 Ltd
Nomination to the Munk Award in the category Best Direction.

The competition film screenings at the school cinema start on 28 January. Some of them will be followed by meetings with the film-makers. The competition program will be on www.konkursmunka.pl. Access to all film screenings is free. Andrzej Munk studied cinematography and direction at the Lodz Film School. From 1957 to his tragic death in 1961, he was a lecturer at the Film School in Lodz. Andrzej Munk's filmography is very short and at the same time unusually distinct. He started his film career in documentary films whose artistic values were appreciated by film critics. As a director of feature films, he was one of the most original artists of the Polish School of Film. At the age of 40, his life ended in a car accident. Since 1965, the Lodz Film School has organized a film competition which grants awards named after Andrzej Munk.

ORGANIZER: Lodz Film School
PARTNERS: FINA National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Legal Culture MEDIA
PATRONS: TVP Kultura, FILM&TV Kamera, filmpolski.pl