As every year, we mark the presence of the Lodz Film School at the Węgiel Film Festival in Katowice, combined with the Student Film Market.

This is an event organized by the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and dedicated entirely to the artistic work of students from around the world.

The main theme of this year's edition is the creative trio: director, screenwriter, producer.

Our Student Council has prepared special events which will be presented during this year's festival edition.

Here they are:

* Workshop: The director-producer duo on the example of the film DANCING IN THE CORNER. A discussion with Jan Bujnowski and Iga Malińska, led by Amadeusz Urbanek, a student of film and television production at the Lodz Film School.

Thursday, 8 May, at 4:30 p.m.
Cinema hall

* Off-competition screening: COMME DES COWBOYS dir. Julia Sadowska

Saturday, 10 May, at 12:30
Cinema hall

* Discussion panel: Resetting cinema: new life for old films. A discussion with Patryk Tomiczek, the head of Reset, hosted by Sebastian Maur from the Film Flow Consortium, a research group for film distribution at the Lodz Film School.

Saturday, 10 May, at 1 p.m.
room 1.20

* Off-competition screening: SERWIS dir. Michał Edelman

Saturday, 10 May, at 2 p.m.
Cinema hall

* Photographic exhibition of the Photography Academic Club of the Lodz Film School corridor in front of the entrance to the cinema hall, exhibition open throughout the festival

* Additionally, the following fiction film has qualified for the student film competition: STRAIGHT FROM THE WEST
Credits:
screenplay and direction: Mikołaj Piszczan
cinematography: Paulina Kowol
editing: Olga Bejm
production management: Paweł Hermanowski
cast: Michał Bieliński, Tymoteusz Gliszczyński, Małgorzata Gorol, Paweł Chwiszczuk, Halina Rowicka
artistic supervision: Piotr Śliskowski, Andrzej Musiał

Film synopsis: Poland, 1990s. A time of crazy business deals, a time of infatuation with the West. Piotr, an ambitious entrepreneur, spends all his family savings on a magic liquid which can dissolve any dirt. When it turns out that the liquid doesn't work, Piotr has to find a way out of this situation.

Screening:
Saturday, 10 May, at 10 a.m.
Cinema hall

and a short film from the Vienna Film Academy, on which our production student Mia Samusionek worked:

LIFE, DEATH AND PICKLES
Credits:
direction: Lotta Schweikert
cinematography: Anna Viola Haderer
production management: Mia Samusionek
production: Vienna Film Academy

All events take place at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the Silesian University, 3, św. Pawła Street, Katowice.

Complete festival programme: wff.us.edu.pl/XXII

photo 1 – organizer’s press materials
still 2 – DANCING IN THE CORNER
still 3 - COMME DES COWBOYS
still 4 - SERVICE
still 5 – STRAIGHT FROM THE WEST
still 6 - LIFE, DEATH AND PICKLES (prod. Vienna Film Academy)