During the 34th Tehran Short Film Festival the Grand Prix was awarded to Piotr Domalewski for his film Evil deeds.
The main character of the film is Maks, the ten-year-old son of a hospital cleaner, who is caught on an attempt to steal a patient's wallet. The disadvantaged old man decides not to report the theft, but instead asks Maks to perform three tasks. But these are going to be a lot harder than expected.
All winners can be found under the link.
On Friday, 20 October 2017, the photographic exhibition opening "NIGREDO ścichłem w chłodu" took place at the Center of Silesian Culture.
The exhibition is related to the film "The Giant’s Return" where Adam Sikora is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Both works are bond together by a process called "nigredo" or blakness, which means decomposition of matter.
During the exhibition, you could also see the movie "The Gianbt’s Return".
During the 15th Opolskie Lamy Film Festival which took place from 4 to 14 October 2017 in Opole, 4 films represented the Faculty of Radio and Television. Dust dir. Jakub Radej won the Grand Prix in the category of documentary film, while Damian Kocur's The Return won the Grand Prix in the feature film category.
In turn, Magdalena Czerwieńska won the Special Jury Award for her role in the films: “The Return” (directed by Jakub Radej), The Frog King (directed by Arkadiusz Biedrzycki), Spitzbergen and Krzysztof Kowalewski for the role in the film “Myself and My Dad”.
The full list of winners is available here.
Anastazja Dąbrowska won the Best Director prize at the BOSI FEST Festival in Serbia for her film Daniel. This is the second award awarded to the short film. In September, Daniel received the award for best short documentary at the FerFilm International Film Festival in Kosovo.
For more information on the Belgrade festival, please visit its official website.
On Monday, October 9th, 2017 the official opening of the new Faculty building took place. The celebration was attended by the Minister of the Education and Higher Education, Jarosław Gowin, the Rector of the University of Silesia Professor Andrzej Kowalczyk, the President of Katowice Marcin Krupa, Professor Wiesław Banyś und Piotr Uszok. After the symbolic ribbon cutting the guests were given a tour by the Dean Professor Krystyna Doktorowicz. At the end of the ceremony the press briefing took place.
Next the guests went to the concert hall of the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Radio for the celebration of the official 50. inauguration of the academic year at the University of Silesia. After the speech of the Rector and the speeches of the guests the students and doctoral candidates took the oath and got their index books.
The prizes Pro Scientia et Arte for the academic employees with academic and artistic achievements were granted. This year it was for Professor Krystyna Heska-Kwaśniewicz and Professor Paweł Migula. Inauguration lecture about amorphous medicaments as the hope of contemporary farmacy was made by Professor Marian Paluch.
After the break the specially composed fanfare of the University of Silesia was played.