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9 student films from the Lodz Film School will be competing in Youth Cinema Competition of the 39th Gdynia FF. Among the entries for Golden Lions Prize Competition - 7 films made by our graduates.

The following Lodz Film School student films have qualified for the competition:
"Albert" by Daniel Wawrzyniak (artistic supervision: Zbigniew Wichłacz),"I am Thirsty" by Emi Mazurkiewicz (artistic supervision: Mariusz Grzegorzek, Ryszard Lenczewski), "Residential Home" by Jakub Stolecki (artistic supervision: Ryszard Lenczewski, Jacek Koprowicz & Tomasz Samosionek), "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska (artistic supervision: Filip Bajon & Ryszard Lenczewski), "Constellations" by Aniela Gabryel (artistic supervision: Mariusz Grzegorzek), "Lena & Me" by Kalina Alabrudzińska (artistic supervision: Mariusz Grzegorzek), "Scanonization" by Jan Grobliński (artistic supervision: Józef Romasz, Krzysztof Ptak), "Siamese" by Joaquin Del Paso (artistic supervision: Stanisław Szymański) and "The Third Room" by Hong Suk-Hwa (artistic supervision Mariusz Grzegorzek, Ryszard Lenczewski).

The Youth Cinema competition is devoted to fiction films and diploma films of young filmmakers – students and graduates of Polish film and art schools. Also films made within a scheme of professional skills improvement programmes for young filmmakers can participate in the competition. Twenty five films have qualified for the Youth Cinema competition of the 39th Gdynia Film Festival and they will compete for The Lucjan Bokiniec Prize for Best film, the Special Prize and many others.

Michał Oleszczyk, the festival artistic director, points out that the Youth Cinema competition is especially important for him this year: ‘It is this competition which in a way foretells the future condition of Polish cinema when young filmmakers start making full-length films. I get the impression that in recent years the Main Competition has overshadowed the Youth Cinema competition and it’s my intention to change this. This year the Music Theatre in Gdynia will be the main festival site, where the main screenings will be organized. I would also like to stress the significant role of young producers of the films screened who next to the film directors are taking the first steps in their careers. I am happy to say that we have great talented young directors and production managers. I would like them to feel that the festival in Gdynia is also their festival.

The 39th Gdynia Film Festival Organizational Committee announced a list of 13 films to be screened in the main competition. The following films of our graduates: "Kebab & Horoscope" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk, "Miasto' 44” by Jan Komasa, "Jack Strong" by Władysław Pasikowski, "Obietnica" by Anna Kazejak-Dawid, "Pod Mocnym Aniołem" by Wojciech Smarzowski, "Onirica - Psie Pole" by Lech Majewski, and "Sąsiady" by Grzegorz Królikiewicz, a Lodz Film School lecturer, will be competing for the Golden Lions. Among the films in competition are: "Kebab & Horoscope", the fiction film debut of direction graduate, Grzegorz Jaroszuk. His student film, "Frozen Stories" based on his own screenplay (artistic supervision by Jan Jakub Kolski) received the most awards in 2012 from amongst Lodz Film School student films which were screened at 60 festivals, winning 20 prizes and distinctions. "Kebab & Horoscope", also based on the director’s own screenplay, had its premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF 2014.

http://www.portalfilmowy.pl/wydarzenia,5,19354,1111,1,13-fabul-w-Konkursie-Glownym.html

The Panorama section has been substituted by another section called the New Approach which is screening ‘Małe stłuczki’ & ‘Heavy mental’ among others ". The film "Małe stłuczki" by Lodz Film School editing students, Ireneusz Grzyb and Aleksandra Gowin, was well received at the Koszalin, "Młodzi i Film" Film Festival winning the Amber Prize for photography by Ita Zbroniec-Zajt, a cinematography graduate, and also the Press Prize for a full-length film.

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1229922

"Heavy mental" is the fiction film debut of Sebastian Buttny, Lodz Film School Direction graduate, based on the director’s own screenplay.

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1229958

At the 39th Gdynia Film Festival a diploma film "Kino" by Tomasz Lechicki will be screened in the independent cinema section. The film has been made within the television production class under the artistic supervision of Elżbieta Protakiewicz. Photography: Michał Gościk, 5th year cinematography; direction: Magdalena Wleklik & Tomek Lechicki.

Gdynia Film Festival will take place 15 - 20 September.