The Nysa Film Festival is an event established on the Czech-Polish-German border, in cooperation with film clubs from Großhennersdorf in Saxony, Liberec in the Czech Republic and Jelenia Góra in Poland. Each year, it provides an insight into the film work of the three neighbouring countries.

The 22nd edition of the festival ran from 20 to 25, May.

Congratulations to Klaudia Fortuniak who received a special mention for her fiction film ENDS AND BEGINNINGS.

Recently, the film has also gained recognition thanks to being longlisted for the BAFTA Student Awards.

ENDS AND BEGINNINGS
Film synopsis: Wednesday. Lemons, Anna's pipes, stolen tram rails. And beautiful apples, champions. What ends today and what begins?

Credits:
direction: Klaudia Fortuniak
screenplay: Klaudia Fortuniak, Magdalena Kućka
cinematography: Mateusz Nowak
editing: Piotr Pohl
production management: Julia Rzepnikowska, Jakub Milarski
cast: Izabella Dudziak, Karol Lelek, Izabela Dąbrowska
artistic supervision: Leszek Dawid, Jakub Piątek, Wojciech Staroń, Marek Król, Jarosław Kamiński

Among the winners there was our lecturer Maciej J. Drygas who won the Special Award for the film TRAINS and our graduate Arjun Talwar who won the Nyska Ryba Award for best documentary and the Audience Award for the film LETTERS FROM WOLF STREET.

Complete jury verdict: neissefilmfestival.net

Congratulations!