The film produced by the Lodz Film School was selected for the short film competition of the prestigious Film Critics' Week at the Cannes festival as the only Polish film! "Crocodile" is a feature diploma by Dawid Bodzak, a graduate of directing at the Lodz Film School.

This year is the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, an event attracting the attention of the entire film world. The very presence in the programme of the Cannes festival is a stamp of the highest film quality. The Semaine de la Critique section, or Film Critics Week, was created in 1962 by the French Union of Film Critics. This prestigious section of the Cannes festival focuses on discovering young talented artists. Its programme invites the first and second films of young, promising filmmakers. Among the directors who have been noticed and appreciated as part of the Semaine de la Critique section are such outstanding and recognized directors as, among others, Alejandro González Iñarritu, Ken Loach, François Ozon and Wong Kar Wai.

This year, in the short film competition of the Film Critics Week, critics, journalists, filmmakers and the festival audience will see a feature film "Crocodile" by Dawid Bodzak, which is the Lodz Film School graduate’s diploma film. This is a short neo-giallo film about the need to fulfil hidden desires which bursts the world of heroes from the inside. The world premiere of "Crocodile" at the festival in Cannes is a spectacular beginning of both the festival path of the film produced by the Lodz Film School, but above all the artistic path of the young director. "Crocodile" is the only Polish film among the 10 international short films in the section.

INFORMATION ON SCREENINGS IN CANNES:
23, May, Tuesday
14:15 - Miramar,
19:45 - Miramar.

26 May, Friday
20:30 - Cinéma Les Visiteurs du Soir in Valbonne

CROCODILE
A 'neo-giallo' short film about a need to fulfill the hidden desires that bursts the characters world from the inside.

written and directed by DAWID BODZAK
cinematography by ADAM SUZIN
edited by KAMIL GRZYBOWSKI
3D animation SŁAWOSZ TEJKOWSKI
costume designers JULITA GOŹDZIK, SEBASTIAN TOKARCZYK
make-up artist JULIA ZAWADZKA
art director ALEKSANDRA KUBISA
sound designer BOGDAN KLAT
production managers ALEKSANDRA GAŁKA, MARIA WALDOWSKA, KATARZYNA STASIEŁUK
artistic supervisor ŁUKASZ BARCZYK
cast JULIA SZCZEPAŃSKA, NATAN BERKOWICZ
and JAKUB JANICKI, TEONIKI ROŻYNEK, JAKUB WOJTAS, MIŁOSZ FUDAŁA, ANNA KRASZEWSKA, KATARZYNA ANDRZEJCZAK, ŁUKASZ RÓŻYŁO

semainedelacritique.com/crocodile

Congratulations, fingers crossed!