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Dominik Matwiejczyk, Hanna Kosinska Hartowicz, Janusz Morgernstern, Leszek Zurek, Magdalena Cielecka, Andrzej Chyra,Jacek Borcuch (Photo: Zosia Zaleska-Bobrowski)
The 6th Annual New York Polish Film Festival has come to an end.
And The Winners Are…
Audience Award: The Lesser Evil by director Janusz Morgernstern was chosen by audience members who attended the 6th Annual NYPFF.
Best Feature Film: All that I love by director Jacek Borcuch received the Festival’s main “Beyond Borders” Award in the name of Krzysztof Kieslowski for Best Feature Film.
Best Short/Documentary: Where the Sun Doesn’t Rush by director Matej Bobrik received the “Beyond Borders” Award for Best Documentary.
Honorary Award: “50 Years in Cinema” went to director JANUSZ MORGERNSTERN.
The Festival Jury included Anna Bogusz, Roza Brzozowski, Clara Markowicz, Joanna Ney, Izabela Blackwood and was led by Adam Holender.
Special Jury recognition went to the Feature “Black” by Domink Matwiejczyk and for the Documentary “Life Is Bearable…At Times” by Katarzyna Kolena Zaleska.
Letter from Jacek Bromski, President of the Polish Filmmakers Association
Honored Guests of the New York Polish Film Festival,
The Sixth Annual New York Polish Film Festival is taking place this year in an unusual atmosphere. It is a time of silence, sadness and reflection. The tragic events in Poland are not insignificant to Polish culture. Perhaps in a year or two, New York audiences will watch feature or documentary films on the April 10 accident near Smolensk and about how it changed the countenance of contemporary Poland.
Looking at the festival program, I see several films that, in very different ways, describe our 20th century history. There is Ryszard Bugajski’s film about General August Fieldorf, General Nil; the beautiful drama, Little Moscow, by Waldemar Krzystek; The Lesser Evil, a film about the moral attitudes of Poles in the 1980s by the eminent master of cinema, Janusz Morgenstern; and a charming film about youth in revolt in the time of martial law, All that I love, by Jacek Borcuch. There is also Bartek Konopka’s revolutionary, Oscar-nominated documentary, Rabbit a la Berlin. This young director is currently making his feature debut in the Munk Studio at the Polish Filmmakers Association. And finally, the special screening of Andrzej Wajda’s Katyń - a film with dually tragic symbolism.
This year, let the New York festival be an occasion for historical reflection. Let it be a chance to find an answer to the question of how Polish film may describe and explain the most important facts of Polish history to the viewers around the world.
The 6th Annual New York Polish Film Festival will be held April 30th – May 4th 2010 under the honorary patronage of Andrzej Wajda and The Consulate General of The Republic of Poland in New York.
The special guests of the Festival will be:
Janusz Morgernstern - Film Director Jacek Borcuch - Film Director Ryszard Bugajski - Film Director Andrzej Chyra - Actor Magdalena Cielecka - Actress Olgierd Łukaszewicz - Actor Borys Szyc - Actor Katarzyna Kolenda - Zaleska - Journalist, Film Director Lesław Zurek - Actor
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