A scene from "Frozen Stories", pictured: Justyna Wasilewska, photo from www.filmpolski.pl
The Polish production made by students of the National Film School in Łódź is nominated in the short film competition at the European Film Awards 2011
Announced at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, the fiction short "Frozen Stories" / "Opowieści z chłodni" by Grzegorz Jaroszuk has been selected by the jury for a nomination for the 24th European Film Awards.
"Frozen Stories" / "Opowieści z chłodni" is a humorous film, with a hint of irony, that tells the story of young girl and boy who work together in the supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives. To realise it they have only two days. A popular television show aims to help them to achive that goal. The film in the grotesque way shows the deep loneliness of two outsiders and their attempt to escape their lives.
Grzegorz Jaroszuk was born in Warsaw in 1983. In 2011 he graduated from directing department in the Polish National Film School in Lodz. During his studies, he made six short films and some of the films have been shown at festivals in Europe.
The film is nominated for the award European Film Academy Short Film 2011. It was selected by the Locarno Film Festivals's Pardi di domani jury consisting of jury president Indu Shrikent, festival director and film critic (India), Bakur Bakuradze, filmmaker (Georgia / Russia), Tom Shoval, filmmaker and critic (Israel), Luc Toutounghi, producer (Switzerland), and Rebecca Zlotowski, filmmaker (France).
The Locarno Film Festival was held between the 3rd and 13th of August 2011. There are now thirteen short films already nominated for European Film Academy Short Film 2011.
The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout Europe. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards. The next nomination will be presented in co-operation with the Venice International Film Festival.
When the annual cycle is completed in September, the nominees are presented to over 2,400 members of the European Film Academy and it is they who elect the overall winner: the European Film Academy Short Film 2011 which will be presented at the 24th European Film Awards Ceremony on the 3rd of December 2011 in Berlin.
Locarno Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
"Frozen Stories" / "Opowieści z chłodni"
by Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Poland 2011, 26 min., fiction
Source: PAP, www.filmpolski.pl