The Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival in Poznań concluded on 30th, November. We wrote about the selection of our films for the competition here: filmschool.lodz.pl/news

The GOLDEN GOATS for the Best Short Film for Young Audiences went to Jan Cisiecki and Bartosz Stankiewicz, the directors of the fiction film HOW TO LAUGH WHEN U GET HURT.

Jury statement: Its metanarrative relates to our current self-help era, where everyone is trying to “fix” themselves, while playing with a nostalgia that matches the melancholy we all feel sometimes. The humour and aesthetic choices make misery not only bearable, but oddly charming. The film reminds us that the best games—and the best moments—are often multiplayer: sharing our small crises with others makes them universal, but also a bit funnier.

Credits:
direction: Jan Cisiecki & Bartosz Stankiewicz
screenplay: Jan Cisiecki, Agata Burdajewicz
cinematography: Jan Cisiecki
editing: Jan Briks
production management: Michalina Pruska
cast: Szymon Andrzejewski, Nel Kaczmarek, Kordian Rekowski
artistic supervision: Piotr Śliskowski

Synopsis: A teenager is preparing to write the perfect farewell letter. But to do so, he must first find the right ink for his pen. To obtain it, he needs to capture the only octopus available in his town… The price he must pay for possessing the cephalopod is returning to a society he previously couldn't understand. This wild adventure is accompanied by classic Polish rock.

Complete jury verdict: alekino.com/news/oglaszamy-werdykty-jury-i-wyniki-konkursu-43-ale-kino-festival

Congratulations to the filmmakers!