The organizers of the 54th Cracow Film Festival , which takes place from 25 May till 1 June, have announced lists of films to be presented in four festival competition sections; 99 films will be screened during the festival, 42 of which are Polish films.

http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/pl/news/433

In the Polish film competition there are two diploma films of direction students: "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska and "Światło w sierpniu" by Matej Bobrik. A diploma film "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska (photography Bartosz Świniarski, artistic supervision Filip Bajon) has been coproduced by the Lodz Film School, AT Productions and Before My Eyes. "Fragments" is a collection of loosely connected scenes, depicting a breakdown of a relationship and a collapse of the world to which the main female character is desperately clinging on to. Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) and her partner (Dobromir Dymecki) have well-paid jobs, intense sex and go jogging every other morning. They live comfortable yet monotonous bourgeois life. That makes Anna slowly fall apart.

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=11118185

"Światło w sierpniu" by Matej Bobrik is a diploma film (photography: Maciej Twardowski, artistic supervision: Jan Jakub Kolski and Ryszard Lenczewski). In the film we can see life in a village Olchówka, where everybody knows each other well and the pace of life is slow. Two young men, Kuba and Jurek, enjoy themselves drinking heavily all night and in the morning Kuba wakes up in the middle of a field to find out that his friend is missing. Kuba decides to look for a girl they bumped into at a bus stop the previous night...

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1234769

In competition there is a student animation "Nieprawdopodobnie elastyczny człowiek" by Karolina Specht (artistic supervision Henryk Ryszka & Aleksandra Chrapowicka) and "Construction" by Andrea Guizar (artistic supervision: Krzysztof Rynkiewicz, Mariusz Wilczyński & Kacper Zamarło).

"Nieprawdopodobnie elastyczny człowiek" is about a man who was born shapeless. Constant deformations and being forced into other shapes evokes a sense of rebellion in him. Is it possible for him to live free from the influence of others? Who and what determines what we are eventually?

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1234042

Among festival competitors there are Lodz Film School lecturers with their films: Piotr Dumała with his animation "Hipopotamy" and Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz with a documentary "Nowy wspaniały świat".

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1234220

A short fiction film "Ojcze masz" by Kacper Lisowski, our school’s graduate, and a documentary "To tylko marzenia" by Jakub Michnikowski, a direction student, are competing at the Festival – both films have been made at the Munk Studio.

http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1124912 http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1169592

Photos: 1-2 "Światło w sierpniu” by Matej Bobrik; 3-4 "Fragments" by Aga Woszczyńska;; 5-6 "Nieprawdopodobnie elastyczny człowiek" by Karolina Specht; 7-8 "Hipopotamy" by Piotr Dumała; 9-10 "Nowy wspaniały świat" by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz; 11 "Construction" by Andrea Guizar; 12-13 "Ze wsi Grunwald" by Artur Wierzbicki.