Reżyser, scenarzysta filmowy, nauczyciel akademicki.
Wyreżyserował m.in. nagradzane na międzynarodowych i krajowych festiwalach filmy fabularne: „Chce się żyć”, Jestem mordercą”, „Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza.”, „Drzazgi”. Jak też filmy dokumentalne: „Przez nokaut”, „Inna”, Jestem „Mordercą…” Spektakle Teatru Telewizji: „Fryzjer”, „Padnij”, „Rodzinny Show”, oraz popularne seriale „Kruk” i „Prokurator”.
An animation loosely based on the childhood of the legendary figure of Martha Jane (Calamity) Cannara, who in 1863, disguised as a boy, set off to the west of the United States.
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary / Dziki Zachód Calamity Jane
Directed by: Rémi Chayé
Country: France, Denmark
Year: 2020
Running time: 82 min.
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November 16, 2021 - 11:15 AM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room
November 20, 2021 - 1 PM
VOD
Urodził się i mieszka w Bydgoszczy. W 2004 roku ukończył reżyserię filmu dokumentalnego w Szkole Wajdy, gdzie jest wykładowcą. Prowadzi warsztaty filmowe w Polsce i za granicą, oraz współtworzy Bydgoską Kronikę Filmową, miejsce dla młodych filmowców w swoim mieście.
Autor filmów dokumentalnych, m.in.: „Kuracja”, „Antykwariat”, „Pamiętaj abyś dzień święty święcił”, „Na niebie, na ziemi”, „Elektryczka”, „Wieloryb z Lorino”, pokazywanych i nagradzanych na wielu polskich i międzynarodowych festiwalach filmowych, m.in. Brązowy (2005) i Srebrny (2008) Lajkonik oraz Srebrny Róg (2021) na KFF w Krakowie, "Biała Kobra" na Festiwalu "Człowiek w zagrożeniu" w Łodzi, "Złoty Zamek" na Off Cinema w Poznaniu, Nagroda Polskiej Akademii Filmowej "Orzeł" w 2021, Najlepszy reżyser 2021 na West lake Film Festival w Chinach. Ekspert Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej. Członek Polskiej Akademii Filmowej. W 2020 r. nominowany do Paszportu Polityki.
Over three years, directors Adam Oľha and Jan Daňhel followed the life of Jan Švankmajer, from his collaboration with old friend and producer Jaromír Kallista to his memory of Eva Švankmajerová, his wife and creative partner, muse and inseparable other half of the director. Shot on various film formats, using found footage and with a touch of Czech humor, Alchemical Furnace is an ode to creation and to companionship.
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Alchemical Furnace / Alchymická pec / Piec alchemiczny
Directed by: Jan Daňhel, Adam Oľha
Cast: Jan Švankmajer, Eva Švankmajerová, Jaromír Kallista, Pavla Kallistová, Tomáš Kalous, Miloš Chlustina, Kamila Magálová
Country: Czech Republic
Year: 2020
Running time: 118 min.
EMISSIONS
November 20, 2021 - 2 PM
VOD
Oscar-nominated film director, PhD university professor, founder of the KEDD Animation Studio, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His artworks „Matches” (2019), „Mama” (2009), „Ergo” (2008), „Maestro” (2005) successfully participated more than 250 film festivals worldwide and were awarded with more than 120 prizes (including, among others, the Interantional Film Festival ”Etiuda&Anima”). His animation film, MAESTRO was nominated to the Academy Awards in 2007 in the Best Animated Short Film category.
In years 2014-2019 he was the Rector of the Hungarian University of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest.
Now he is guest professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2014-2019. Rector of the Hungarian University of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest
Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in Croatia. Self-taught, Lundgren’s body of work includes an assortment of quirky music videos, PSAs and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters.
In 2011, Lundgren created her own animation studio called Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio and later co-founded Adriatic Animation, an animation studio based in Croatia. Her films (including the award-winning shorts, Manivald (2017) and Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)) have screened at numerous international festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Hiroshima and Ottawa.
A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Departmenty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw, he made his debut with the film “Exit”, which was included in the Filmoteka Szkolna (School Film Library) package.
He worked on many animated and feature films as a director, screenwriter, and production manager - mainly in the productions of Serafiński Studio Graficzno-Filmowe (Serafiński Graphic and Film Studio).
She graduated from Jan Matejko Secondary School of Fine Arts in Nowy Wiśnicz, where she attended the Artistic Fabrics Studio, and later from the Faculty of Graphics at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She received her diploma from the Animated Film Studio.
She is the author of animations titled "Substance" (Substancja, 2016), “Gourmet” (Smakosz, 2017), Millenium (2020). She founded a graphic studio focused on animation - Framesquad studio, and collaborates with the Krakow Animation Center. She works with animated films, narrative drawing and photography.
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 8.4.92. From 2009 – 2010, she studied cinema and literature in ”Hadarim high school” and worked at many film sets. From 2014 – 2019 she was a student in “Minshar school of art” in Tel Aviv. Since 2014 she has been working as a freelancer editor. Most of her films are about her family and she plays in them along with her real family members. Her first short film, made at the third year in “Minshar” (2019), was “Fine” which participated in many festivals around the world including Warsaw Film Festival, Filmschoolfest Munich- where it was awarded as the “most original film” + ” the audience's favorite”, and Yadlin herself was nominated as a member of the jury the year after.
Her graduation short film in 2020, “As You Like”, was sponsored by “Rabinovich Foundation" and premiered at "Show Me Shorts Film Festival", New Zealand. In 2021 she directed and wrote the short film “Killing ourselves”, sponsored by “Gesher Film Foundation” and is going to be premiered at “Arava International Film Festival”. In addition, during her studies she produced a number of films for her classmates and made some more short and experimental films, which won several prizes. Today she is filming a short film “Khachapuri Tutorial”, sponsored by “The New Fund for Cinema and TV” and she is writing her feature film. In 2020 she received Grand Prix of the IFF Etiuda&Anima in ETIUDA competition.
The main protagonist of Thomas Mann's short story is Gustav von Aschenbach - a writer going through a creative crisis. In search of new stimuli, he goes to Venice - a city he knows well, which he has not visited for a long time, though. There, on the beach, he meets a teenage boy from Poland, Tadzio, who is on vacation with his mother. Fascinated with the boy’s beauty, the writer loses control of himself completely. Despite the plague in the city, he decides not to leave Venice. Thomas Mann's short story inspired Visconti to tell the story of passing – both of an individual as well as of the entire epoch.
Death in Venice | Morte a Venezia | Śmierć w Wenecji
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Björn Andresen, Silvana Mangano
Country: France, Italy
Year: 1971
Running time: 130 min.
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November 21, 2021 - 3:30 PM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room - FREE ADMISSION
In 1970, Luchino Visconti was travelling to many countries in search of a young boy who could play the role of Tadzio in the adaptation of "Death in Venice ” by Thomas Mann. Visconti was already exhausted and discouraged by this long and ineffective search. He participated in over 150 auditions, and finally, after the casting in Stockholm, he hired 15-year-old Björn Andresen. A year later, during the premiere of the film in London, Visconti hailed his actor "the most beautiful boy in the world" in the presence of Queen Elizabeth. A few months afterwards, during the Cannes Film Festival, a music agent invited Björn to Japan, where he became the first western pop star, starring in photo shoots and in commercials. Visconti's nickname stuck to Björn for the rest of his life and became his curse. Today, half a century later, Björn struggles with addictions and his inner demons. He discovers the secret of his mother and her sudden departure. He also continues his film career, playing, among others, in the horror film "Midsummer".
"The Most Beautiful Boy in the World" is an intimate portrait of a person who is trying to come to terms with the past and regain control of his life. It also shows the backstage work on the production of the legendary Visconti’s film and reveals the power structures in the film industry as well as the processes of exploitation that are widely discussed today thanks to the #metoo movement.
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World / Världens vackraste pojke / Najpiękniejszy chłopiec na świecie
Directed by: Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
Photos: Erik Vallsten
Production: Stina Gardell, Mantaray Film
Country: Sweden
Year: 2021
Running time: 93 min.
EMISSIONS
November 21, 2021 - 1:30 PM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room + VOD
A graduate of the Lodz Film School with specialization in animated film and special effects. Born in Katowice on February 10, 1996, at present she’s a resident of Krupski Młyn, where all her time-lapse films were made in her family garage. In addition to animation, she is also interested in bloody special effects, film make-up and conducting film workshops with children and teenagers.
She is the author of the films Banquet (Bankiet, 2016), My strange older brother (Mój dziwny starszy brat, 2018) and Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (2019), which have been shown and awarded at film festivals in Poland and abroad. Her last etude I'm here (Jestem tutaj, 2020) was shortlisted for the GSA BAFTA Student Film Awards 2021, and has won, among others, Golden Dove at the DOK Lepizig Festival, Grand Prix at the "Etiuda & Anima" International Film Festival, the award for the best animation at the Animafest Zagreb festival and at the Anifilm festival in the Czech Republic and many others.
Ilya Khrzhanovsky is a film director, creative producer, member of the European Film Academy.
In 2004 his debut film "4" was released. The film won awards, including Golden Cactus for uncompromising art and Golden Tiger for best film at Rotterdam film festival, prizes for best director at Buenos Aires and Athens film festivals, Grand Prix at Seattle and Transylvania film festivals and others. The film "4" was nominated for the "Discovery of the Year" award of the European Film Academy.
DAU is his second project. It is a multidisciplinary project that combines film, art and anthropology. The project premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre de la Ville in 2019. At the same time an exhibition-installation on the DAU project opened at the Centre Pompidou.
The project's two films "DAU. Natasha" and "DAU. Degeneration" were included in the official program of Berlinale 2020. The film "DAU. Degeneration" topped the rating of the international film critics' community at the Berlinale, and cameraman Jürgen Jürges received the Silver Bear with "Outstanding Achievement in Film Art" for "DAU. Natasha".
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. A grandfather who is a feminist, an adopted young boy who astounds with his intellect, and Freshta who will do anything to run away from her abusive husband. Like the other women in the family, Herra wears a burka and hides in a closet when guests arrive. Soon she starts a new job with American woman, Heidi, who has little understanding of the way women live in Afghanistan, and even less that not everybody wants to be saved by Westerners.
My Sunny Maad is the feature animated debut directed by Michaela Pavlátová.
My Sunny Maad / Moje Slunce Maad
Directed by: Michaela Pavlátová
Production: Negativ Film Productions, Sacrebleu Productions, Bfilm, Czech TV
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Year: 2021
Running time: 80 min.
EMISSIONS
November 16, 2021 - 20 PM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room + VOD
A story about two mortal enemies – a little mouse and a fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven. They lose their natural instincts and become best friends. Their wish to stay together after they return to earth comes true, but they are reborn into opposite roles. The film is about hope, a quest for love and courage, and about overcoming prejudices and old pains. Thanks to the power of friendship they can even overcome what seems to be impossible.
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Even Mice Belong to Heaven / Nawet myszy idą do nieba
Directed by: Jan Bubeniček, Denisa Grimmova
Production: Les films du Cygne, CinemArt, Animoon, Łódź Miasto Kultury, CANAL +
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
Year: 2021
Running time: 87 min.
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November 16, 2021 - 9:30 AM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room
November 21, 2021 - 11 AM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room + VOD
Nose by Nikolai Gogol. And an Opera The Nose upon Gogol’s novel, that was created in 1930 by the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This film is dedicated to the pioneers, the groundbreakers in art. To the people who were ahead of their time. And who were, most importantly, brave enough to go against the current. For this, they had to pay the price of their own welfare, and often even their life. The main characters of the film are writers Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, director Vsevolod Meyerhold and composer Dmitry Shostakovich.
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The nose or the conspiracy of mavericks / Nos lub spisek odmieńców
Directed by: Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Screenplay: Yury Arabov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Photos: Jürgen Jürges
Art-director Marina Azizyan, Alexandra Pavlova, Alexander Khramtsov, VaryaYakovleva
Production: Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Shar Studio
Technique: drawing, cut-outs, live-action, documentary
Country: Poland
Year: 2020
Running time: 89 min.
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The Khrzhanovskiy family - The nose or the conspiracy of mavericks
November 20, 2021 - 8 PM
VOD
The first part of the monumental, total work by Ilya Khrzhanovsky is an introduction to the DAU world constructed with incredible scale while also being precise in the tiniest of details. The shocking and entrancing film traps characters and audiences in its protracted shots to tell the story of a lonely canteen manager in a city-sized institution sealed off to the outside world. The plot runs its course over several days in 1952 during which Khrzhanovsky makes us witness the dramatic entanglements of the titular heroine. The camera (shot on 35mm film!) is akin to a spy, never taking its eyes off Natasha, as she slings food, flirts, holds drunken conversations, is stabbed by a young assistant, or has sex. She is totally unaware that her banal dreams of love and her minor transgressions in the canteen are being consumed by absolute totalitarian power. DAU reveals that power's mechanisms.
Berlin IFF 2020 - Silver Berlin Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Jürgen Jürges)
DAU Natasha / DAU. Natasza
Directed by: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
Screenplay: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
Photos: Jürgen Jürges
Cast: Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo, Alexei Blinov
Production: Phenomen Ukraine, Phenomen Films, Phenomen Berlin, Filmproduktions
Country: Germany, Ukraine, UK, Russia
Year: 2020
Running time: 138 min.
EMISSIONS
The Khrzhanovskiy family - DAU. Natasha
November 16, 2021 - 4 PM
Kijów Cinema: Large Screening Room + VOD
Regulations of the competition - Anima 2021
§1
ANIMA festival competition allows the applicants to submit animated films (including professional and independent films as well as student etudes) which do not exceed 30 minutes in length and were made between years 2019 - 2021. The preview copies of the films should be submitted to the Festival Organization Office in the form of a digital file (mp4, mov or a link to the film available on an open-access video platform).
§2
The Festival Office shall collect the incoming competition registrations from 9th March until 30th June, 2021. The film can be submitted by completing a registration form at www.etiudaandanima.pl and sending a public or private link (with or without password) to the film (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, etc.) with no expiration date and no territorial limits, accompanied by a film summary and a dialogue list in English, promotional materials including screenshots, and the director’s bio and photograph. Films without filled-in online entry form will not be accepted. Festival does not charge any fee for the submitting of the film.
§3
The decision whether the film shall be accepted into the competition will be made by the Artistic Director of the Festival when the Selection Committee finish their work. The applicants will be informed about their films being accepted into the competition via email and on www.etiudaandanima.pl until 20th September 2021.
§4
Authors whose films are accepted into the competition are obliged to deliver to the Festival Organizers, at their own expense, the screening copies of their films in the following formats: DCP, Blu-ray or a link to a digital file (DCP, mov, mp4) until 8th October 2021. Failure to deliver a screening copy of a film before the deadline will result in withdrawing it from the competition.
§5
The competition films are evaluated – foremostly on the basis of the artistic criteria – by the international Jury, headed by the Chairman of the Jury, selected by Festival Directors from among the members of the Jury. The Jury work and make decisions in accordance with the Jury Proceedings Regulations formulated by the Chairman of the Jury with the consent of the other members of the Jury and the Festival Directors. The Secretary of the Jury, who is appointed by the Directors of the Festival, facilitates the proceedings of the Jury.
§6
The following Prizes will be awarded at the ANIMA 2021 competition:Special Golden Jabberwocky for the best student animation of the Festival. The Jury have also the right to award three Honorary Diplomas.
§7
The Directors of the Festival shall decide on the right and mode of awarding the Special Awards, including the Audience Award and the Student Jury Award. Under certain artistically justified circumstances, the Artistic Director of the Festival also reserves the right to award a “The Great Underestimated” Prize to the most undervalued film of the competition.
§8
The official verdict of the Jury will be announced on 20th November 2021, at the official closing ceremony of the festival during which all prizes will be awarded. Should the winners be absent from the ceremony, the awards will be sent by post or handed over to them in a different manner within a month after the end of the Festival.
§9
The Festival Office deems itself responsible to conform to all the rules concerning the exploitation of the films accepted into the competition.
§10
The submission of the film for the Festival competition is equivalent to the agreement for three screenings of the film during the Festival and – if the given film is awarded a prize – screenings at the “Travelling Etiuda&Anima 2021” event, which is organized throughout Poland and abroad and presents the prizewinning films of the Festival. What is more, the Festival organizers have the right to use, free of charge, promotional materials and parts of the film (a trailer or 2-minute part of the film) in any promotional activities connected with the organization of the Festival.
§11
All transportation costs as well as any other shipment costs of the film copies submitted to competition shall be covered by the applicants, who are also responsible for paying all customs costs outside Poland. Applicants are obliged to observe customs regulations related to film transport. A pro forma invoice amounting to max. EUR 15 should be attached to all non-EU film shipments. Packages should be provided with the following sentence “For cultural purposes only – no commercial value”.
§12
DCP and Blu-Ray discs shall be returned at the Organizer’s expense within 4 weeks from the closing date of the Festival to the address specified by the applicant. A notice should be given to the Festival Organizers about any changes in the return address not later than one week before the commencement. The Organizer is not responsible for damages resulting from giving a wrong address. The Festival is obliged to return the film copy in a condition not worse than due to a standard use. The Organizer of the Festival shall assume financial liability for the submitted film copies, for the duration of the event in question, up to the amount specified in the entry form.
Kraków, 9th March 2021Directors of the 28th IFF Etiuda&Anima 2021
Katarzyna Surmacz Bogusław Zmudziński
Regulations of the competition of student etudes - Etiuda 2021
§1
ETIUDA festival competition allows the applicants to submit student etudes and graduate films (excluding animated films) made in film and artistic schools as parts of the didactic process between years 2019 - 2021. The films should not exceed 30 minutes in length and need to be submitted to the Festival Organization Office in the form of a digital file (mp4, mov or a link to the film available on an open-access video platform).
§2
The Festival Office shall collect the incoming competition registrations from 9th March until 30th June, 2021. The Festival organizers recommend to submit films for the preview through Filmfreeway – www.filmfreeway.com. It is also possible to submit a film by completing a registration form at www.etiudaandanima.pl and sending a public or private link (with or without password) to the film (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, etc.) with no expiration date and no territorial limits, accompanied by a film summary and a dialogue list in English, promotional materials including screenshots, and the director’s bio and photograph. Films without filled-in online entry form will not be accepted. Festival does not charge any fee for the submitting of the film.
§3
The decision whether the film shall be accepted into the competition will be made by the Artistic Director of the Festival when the Selection Committee finish their work. The applicants will be informed about their films being accepted into the competition via email and on www.etiudaandanima.pl until 20th September 2021.
§4
Authors whose films are accepted into the competition are obliged to deliver to the Festival Organizers, at their own expense, the screening copies of their films in the following formats: DCP, Blu-ray or a link to a digital file (DCP, mov, mp4) until 8th October 2021. Failure to deliver a screening copy of a film before the deadline will result in withdrawing it from the competition.
§5
The competition films are evaluated – foremostly on the basis of the artistic criteria – by the international Jury, headed by the Chairman of the Jury, selected by Festival Directors from among the members of the Jury. The Jury work and make decisions in accordance with the Jury Proceedings Regulations formulated by the Chairman of the Jury with the consent of the other members of the Jury and the Festival Directors. The Secretary of the Jury, who is appointed by the Directors of the Festival, facilitates the proceedings of the Jury.
§6
The following Prizes will be awarded at the ETIUDA 2021 competition:The Jury have also the right to award three Honorary Diplomas and one Honorary Diploma for the best film school of ETIUDA competition 2021.
§7
The Directors of the Festival shall decide on the right and mode of awarding the Special Awards, including Awards of FICC Jury – Fédération Internationale des Ciné Clubs, the Audience Award, the Student Jury Award. Under certain artistically justified circumstances, the Artistic Director of the Festival also reserves the right to award a “The Great Underestimated” Prize to the most undervalued film of the competition.
§8
The official verdict of the Jury will be announced on 20th November 2021, at the official closing ceremony of the festival during which all prizes will be awarded. Should the winners be absent from the ceremony, the awards will be sent by post or handed over to them in a different manner within a month after the end of the Festival.
§9
The Festival Office deems itself responsible to conform to all the rules concerning the exploitation of the films accepted into the competition.
§10
The submission of the film for the Festival competition is equivalent to the agreement for three screenings of the film during the Festival and – if the given film is awarded a prize – screenings at the “Travelling Etiuda&Anima 2021” event, which is organized throughout Poland and abroad and presents the prizewinning films of the Festival. What is more, the Festival organizers have the right to use, free of charge, promotional materials and parts of the film (a trailer or 2-minute part of the film) in any promotional activities connected with the organization of the Festival.
§11
All transportation costs as well as any other shipment costs of the film copies submitted to competition shall be covered by the applicants, who are also responsible for paying all customs costs outside Poland. Applicants are obliged to observe customs regulations related to film transport. A pro forma invoice amounting to max. EUR 15 should be attached to all non-EU film shipments. Packages should be provided with the following sentence “For cultural purposes only – no commercial value”.
§12
DCP and Blu-Ray discs shall be returned at the Organizer’s expense within 4 weeks from the closing date of the Festival to the address specified by the applicant. A notice should be given to the Festival Organizers about any changes in the return address not later than one week before the commencement. The Organizer is not responsible for damages resulting from giving a wrong address. The Festival is obliged to return the film copy in a condition not worse than due to a standard use. The Organizer of the Festival shall assume financial liability for the submitted film copies, for the duration of the event in question, up to the amount specified in the entry form.
Kraków, 9th March 2021Directors of the 28th IFF Etiuda&Anima 2021
Katarzyna Surmacz Bogusław Zmudziński
