The Kraków Film Foundation has prepared a special section for this year's festival. The Best Polish Shorts presents eight short films shown at several film festivals around the globe in 2010. Among the titles are documentaries - including the winner of the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, "Kawałek lata" / "A Piece of Summer" by Marta Minorowicz, and animations – "Galleria" by Robert Proch and "Rytuał" / "Ritual" by Zbigniew Czapla – as well as a fiction short by Kuba Czekaj, "Twist and Blood".
The presentation of the Polish collection, entitled "Carte Blanche Cracovie", is one of the three partner shows at this year's festival. In addition to the sections dedicated to films from Poland, this year's edition also puts the spotlight on Ireland (the festival's special guest) and the French festival of Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine.
Last year Poland that was a special guest of the Nice Festival, giving the audience an opportunity to watch a collection of Roman Polański's short films, documentary films by young filmmakers, as well as a retrospective of animation films produced in Poland since the 1960s.
Other Polish films which qualified for the 11th edition of the Short Film Festival in Nice were "Świteź", an animation by Kamil Polak (the main-prize winner at the "Message to Man" film festival in Russia), "Misja na Marsa" / "Mission to Mars" by Haukur M.Hrafnsson and "Kinematograf" by Tomasz Bagiński. Two Polish documentary films which qualified for the competition were "Smolarze", an award-winning film by Piotr Złotorowicz and "Inwentaryzacja" by Paweł Łoziński.
The festival is on between 18-23 October 2011. The programme includes almost 170 short films selected from 1,400 entries from 40 countries.
For more information about the festival, see: www.nice-filmfest.com.
Source: polishdocs.pl