On 14th of September 2019 the jury including Damian Romaniak, Beata Bogusławska and Grzegorz Fedorowski have awarded prizes in main competition:
1st Prize
My Salsa Dance Teacher
directed by Rafael Navarro Minon
A prize for a unique and clean architectural film frames, humour and distance to director and actor himself Rafael Navarro Minon.
2nd Prize
My Theatre
directed by Kazuya Ashizawa
For showing authentic love to cinema, which moves heart and emotions. In this film there is a spirit of film cinema Paradiso. “My Theathe” is a beautiful work about strength of human memory and cultivating the past.
3rd Prize
HELIX
directed by Karoly Kasa Papp
A prize for unique cleanliness and formal conciseness, which didn’t prevent from expressing subtle and complicated human relations.
Jury also made a honorable mentions:
- A working day in Asia
directed by Jens Nagles
Form, which seemingly didn’t have a documentary features, it showed a human work made from variable scenes. Absolutely free from journalistic responsibility – actuality of the topic is striking. - Meeting
directed by Margareta Petterson
for courage and at the same time subtle message in such a tough topic – sexual harassment against women, who are looking for a job. - Balast
directed by Józef Leszek Wiśniewski
for keeping in suspense, a vision of the world, which reminds George Orwell’s “1984”. Let’s hope it won’t be real. - Katatumbo
for perfect form and showing that imagination has no boundaries.
Audience prize:
Freeze- frames from a Life Story
directed by Marek Osajda
Special prize given byt the festival Organizer:
Nice Chinese Girls Don’t
directed by Jennifer Abod
Special prize given by sponsor filmowe.pl:
Clean Sweep
directed by Alistair Kerr