The 30-minute film "The best fireworks ever" has won two awards - Canal + and Rail d'Or. The last award, which has been awarded for twenty years in a short film, was first awarded for a Polish artist.
As a director says, the film is about the big city life, which is broken by the war.
The production had it's premiere during the 56th Week of Critics in Cannes.
Kuba Czekaj received the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Prize for the best script in Central and Eastern Europe. The jury chose the best script for the eleventh time. Kubia Czekaj's "Sorry Polsko" scenario competed with eleven other form nine countries.
Kuba Czekaj, director of "Baby Bump" and "Prince Olch", previously told in his films about the difficult time of adolescence. In his new script a forty-year-old man is a hero. As the director says, "Sorry Polsko" is a sarcastic parable of what is happening in our country right now.
The jury, with Agnieszka Holland as a chairman, honored Jan P. Matuszynski with main award of $ 100 000 for the film "Last Family". He also got the possibility of getting a 1 000 000 PLN grant, if his next film is to be realized in Poland.
"Last Family" was also appreciated by the audience, which awarded their prize to the distributor of the film.
The film previously went through the selections of international productions being debuts or second feature films of the director.
The next edition of the Neisse Film Festival will begin on May 9th. This year’s program includes three films made by students from the Faculty of Radio and Television.
In the short film competition will contest: "Goran the Camel Man" by Marcin Lesisz, Julian Tałandziewicz's "Disorder" and Sebastian Drożak’s "I ‘ve got you".
On Saturday, 29 April, the 31st edition of the Tarnów Film Awards has finished. There were twelve films that were judged by the Jury, the Youth Jury, and the audience.
Grzegorz Zariczny won the special prize for the movie "Waves" - for a delightful psychological and emotional truth. Debut, which proves the director's talent and ability to see the world and people in an inconceivable and fascinating way for the viewer.
Audience Award - "Publika" statuette received the film "Last Family" directed by Jan P. Matuszyński.
Gran Prix Award - "Maszkarona" statuette went to "I am a murderer" directed by Maciej Pieprzyca - impressively artistically consistent, submerged in the world of the 70s, and at the same time a universal and very up to date portrait of a man infected with evil.