KARINA KLESZCZEWSKA – cinematographer and Lodz Film School cinematography graduate, Polish Film Academy member. Worked as DOP in Łukasz Barczyk’s films: „Przemiany” (2003), „Nieruchomy poruszyciel” (2008), „Italiani” (2011), „Hiszpanka” (2015). Also worked as light director of theatre plays: „Obróbka”, „Howie i Rocky Lee” directed by Artur Urbański in Teatr Rozmaitosci, Warszawa); „Woyzeck” directed by Maja Kleczewska in Teatr Bogusławskiego, Kalisz); „Henryk Sinobrody”, „Kamień” directed by Rafał Sabara in Teatr Współczesny, Warszawa).
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JAN KOMASA – studied direction at the Lodz Film School; director of fiction films, documentaries, plays, music videos, commercials; film actor. Cannes Cinefondation Prize winner for a student film ‘Fajnie, że jesteś’. His full-length fiction debut film, „Sala samobójców”, a revelation in Polish cinema of the recent years, was well received by both young and mature audience as well as the film critics. Jan Komasa is also the originator and co-screenwriter of the first in the world non-fiction war drama "The Warsaw Uprising" made with the usage of the Uprising original archive films. Although he is only 34, he directed the biggest Polish post 1989 super production – "Miasto 44”.
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 PIOTR SZCZEPANOWICZ – Lodz Film School animation graduate, director, screenwriter, animated films’ producer. In 2010 – 2015, co-founder of Krakow Animation Postproduction Studio ‘NoLabel’, where he produced, among others, a famous Tomasz Popakul’s animated film „Ziegenort” (2013). Worked on post-production of Suzie Templeton’s animated film „Peter and the Woolf”, Kamil Polak’s „Świteź” and Martin Clapp’s „Magic Piano”. As a director, he made seven short films, amongst them „Dróżnik” (2012), which won numerous prizes at Polish and foreign festivals. At present, he supervises the post production of Mariusz Wilczyński full-length debut „Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta”.
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FILMS IN COMPETITION:

Fiction films:

"Apokalipsa" by Justyna Mytnik
"Ciepło-zimno" by Marta Prus
"Czarnowidzka" by Joanna Satanowska
"How to reach God through proper exercising" by Gabriel Herrera Torres
"Lokatorki" by Klara Kochańska
"O wilkach w dole" by Martin Rath
"Strzyga" by Kamil Krukowski
"Szeptunki" by Nastazja Gonera
"Woo" by Mo Tan

Documentary films:

"Dziadku, nie słyszę" by Izabela Kiszczak
"Melancholia" by Klara Kochańska
"Musimy porozmawiać" by Jędrzej Michalak
"Na granicy" by Adam Bialiacki
"Nauka" by Emi Mazurkiewicz
"Praska 24" by Patrycja Polkowska
"Shujayya" by Mohammed Almughanni

Animated films:

"Bestia" by Agnieszka Konarska
"Cipka" by Renata Gąsiorowska
"Ja, zwierzę" by Michalina Musialik
"Łańcuszki" by Alicja Błaszczyńska
"Olbrzym" by Marcin Podolec
"Pies Schrödingera" by Natalia Krawczuk
"Przytul mi głowę" by Ewa Łuczków
"Wióry" by Agata Mianowska
"Wyjdę z siebie" by Karolina Specht
"Zaczyn" by Artur Hanaj
"Zdrowaśka" by Aleksandra Wit
"052 / Korytarz" by Zuzanna Stach

Films of cinematography students:

"Be.FrienD.eD" by Tomasz Sajewski
"Bracia" by Piotr Żurawski
"Droga" by Shuxuan Mei
"La etiuda" by Yann Seweryn
"Ładnie tu" by Mateusz Czuchnowski
"Między torami" by Tomasz Wierzbicki
"Mosaico, el vals del bazo" by Andrea Guizar
"Niżej podpisana" by Karma Fryc
"Razem/Osobno" by Kajetan Plis
"System" by Jan Grobliński

Looking back at the festival history it turns out that „Łodzią po Wiśle” winners proved to be successful artists later on too winning many prizes at Polish and international festivals. For example, Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s Grand Prix winning film „Opowieści z chłodni” from 2010 was later awarded at over 30 international festivals, and his fiction debut film „Kebab i Horoskop” which was made in 2014 got prizes at Festivals in Gdynia, London and Rome, being appreciated by both film audience and critics. Magnus von Horn’s diploma film „Without Snow”, the winner of „Łodzią po Wiśle” in 2011, was a good start of the director’s career which led to his full-length film debut „Intruz”, the prize winner at Gdynia Film Festival, also awarded by the Swedish Film Academy. Among other „Łodzią po Wiśle” winners there are present successful Polish directors such as Leszek Dawid (known for the films „Ki” and „Jesteś Bogiem”) who won 2004 festival with the film “Bar at Victoria Station”), and Jan Komasa (known for the films „Sala samobójców” and „Miasto 44″) who received a distinction at the 2004 festival for the film „Fajnie, że jesteś”.

Festival website: www.lodziapowisle.pl
Poster’s design: Krzysztof Iwański