The 20th edition of the Festival concluded on August 9th, and the winners were announced during the Closing Gala. We wrote about the selection of our student films for the festival here. (filmschool.lodz.pl/news/3879,dwa-brzegi-nasza-silna-reprezentacja-na-20-edycji.)

In the International Short Film Competition, second place (prize of PLN 6,000) was taken by Klaudia Fortuniak with her fiction film DREAM UP THE TITLE.

Jury statement: for creating a dreamlike, unreal world which is simultaneously coherent, poignant, and above all, absurdly funny. For a story about an intriguing female protagonist who makes you want to drop everything and embark on a journey following the rivers of Łódź.

Film synopsis: The parched city of Łódź is left without rivers, and Małgorzata embarks on a journey to find them. She’s late for the journey, misreading the time in her sleep. She finds the rivers, but not the dream.

Credits:
screenplay and direction: Klaudia Fortuniak
cinematography: Mateusz Nowak
editing: Piotr Pohl
sound: Tomasz Andrzejewski
costumes: Aleksandra Nowakowska, Karolina Pyszko and Zosia Pohl production management: Kamila Wysocka
artistic supervision: Jan Komasa, Mariusz Kuś, Sandra Ksepka
cast: Izabella Dudziak, Mateusz Górski, Piotr Seweryński
production: Lodz Film School

See the trailer: vimeo.com/1154363443

The Third Prize of PLN 4,000 was received by Patrycja Polkowska (graduate of directing) for the film CASE NO. (PROD. Munk Studio, Lumisenta Film Foundation).

Jury statement: for a suggestive and extremely current portrait of a man entangled in the mechanisms of the system and the power of emotional impact that leaves the viewer with questions long after the screening.

Winners of the International Short Film Competition of the 20th Dwa Brzegi Festival: dwabrzegi.pl/aktualnosci/20-bnp-paribas-dwa-brzegi-wyniki-miedzynarodowego-konkursu-filmow-k...

The Audience Poll was won by our graduates:

* 1st place in the fiction film category: DOBRY CHŁOPIEC, directed by Jan Komasa, a graduate and lecturer in directing;

* 1st place in the documentary film category: DZIEŃ DZIECKA KSIĘDZA JANA KACZKOWSKIEGO, directed by Artur Wierzbicki, a graduate in cinematography.

Audience Poll winners: dwabrzegi.pl/aktualnosci/zwyciezcy-plebiscytu-publicznosci-20-bnp-paribas-dwa-brzegi/

Congratulations to all the winners!

1 – festival organizers’ press materials
2-3 – stills from the film DREAM UP THE TITLE