| Polish Film Festival in Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Written by JID | |
| Monday, 03 December 2007 | |
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14th Polish Film Festival took place in Ann Arbor, MI, on the 10th and 11th of November. This year the auditorium saw some documentaries and feature films. The festival opened with a documentary by Bożena Garus-Hockuba The Lilpop Sisters and Their Passions, winner of the Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award at the 8th Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles. Other documentaries screened include: Breaking the Wall by Grażyna Ogrodowska and Leszek Furman, The 52 percent by Rafał Skalski and docudrama The Refuge City by Wojciech Kasperski. The 52 percent and The Refuge City are stories about individuals, first about children admitting to the Russian Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg, second about mans involved in soccer riot in 2004 in Lódź. The other two, make use of live of interesting people to tell some stories about polish history of fighting for freedom and independence. Three dramas and one comedy screened in Michigan Theater are new productions but already very well known in Poland. Saviour Square by Joanna Kos and Krzysztof Krauze, got multiple Polish Film Award Orly 2007 for best director, best film and best actress (Jowita Budnik) and best supporting actress (Ewa Wencel) and furthermore Polish Film Festival at Gdynia 2006 Award also for these two great actress. In one of the most remarkable Polish films of the year What the sun has seen, director Michał Rosa returns to his previous interest in social drama and focuses the storyline on three people and their lives in a town in the Silesian region. Immensity of justice by Wiesław Saniewski tells the fictionalized story of a man who was convicted of murder based solely on circumstantial evidence. And last but not least Testosterone by Tomasz Konecki and Andrzej Saramonowicz billed as Poland’s first sex comedy was a big box office hit in its own country, suppose thanks to impressive cast of young and handsome male polish stars. Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual cultural event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund—Ann Arbor in cooperation with the Polish-American Congress Ann Arbor Chapter, the University of Michigan's Polish Club, and the University of Michigan. Since its beginning in 1993, the Festival has been offering audiences an opportunity to see a broad range of narrative forms and visual styles present in contemporary Polish cinema. In addition to movie screenings, the Festival has hosted distinguished Polish filmmakers and actors, such as Zbigniew Rybczynski, (director, Oscar for Best Short in 1983), Andrzej Fidyk (documentary filmmaker, member of the European Film Academy), Marcel Lozinski (documentary filmmaker, Oscar nomination in 1994), Cezary Pazura (triple winner of the “Golden Duck Award” for best Polish actor), and others. |
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