{"id":31383,"date":"2021-06-05T18:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/?p=31383"},"modified":"2021-06-05T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:41:07","slug":"61st-krakow-film-festival-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/61st-krakow-film-festival-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"61st Krakow Film Festival Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“Far Eastern Golgotha”, “The Hangman at Home” and “Walk with Angels” are the golden winners of the 61<\/span>st<\/span> Krakow Film Festival. On Saturday, 5 June at the Kijów cinema, the international jury awarded<\/a> the best documentaries, shorts and animated films that had been competing for experts’ and audiences’ attention both in Krakow cinemas and online throughout the festival week. <\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The awards ceremony of the 61st Krakow Film Festival, hosted by Łukasz Wojtusik, was attended by representatives of the film industry and cinema lovers from all over the world.<\/span> One of the most important awards of the festival – the audience award granted by the Film Magazine of the Polish Filmmakers Association went to Anna Kokoszka-Romer and Mateusz Kudła’s film <\/span>“Polański, Horowitz. Hometown”<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomasz Wysokiński<\/strong> was the undisputed winner of the festival with his film <\/span>“Walk with Angels”<\/span><\/strong> receiving the highest award – the Golden Hobby-Horse<\/strong> “for being an honest guide through the heart of darkness, professionalism in storytelling, conscious narration through a ruthless, distant world and a film that is hard to stop thinking about”<\/em>. The documentary was also recognised for its music by Paweł Mykietyn<\/strong>, for its production – the Polish Producers Alliance Award for Piotr Kobus and Agnieszka Drewno<\/strong> (Mañana) – and received the Krakow Film Festival’s recommendation for the European Film Award<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jury chaired by Jan P. Matuszyński awarded the Silver Hobby-Horses<\/strong> in the <\/span>national competition<\/span> to Tomasz Wolski<\/strong> for the feature-length documentary <\/span>“1970”<\/span><\/strong>, Andrzej Cichocki<\/strong> for the short documentary <\/span>“A Little Bit of Paradise”<\/span><\/strong> (also winning the Polish Society of Cinematographers award<\/strong> for best cinematography), Michalina Musialik<\/strong>, author of the animated film <\/span>“Dog’s Field”<\/span><\/strong>, and Nastazja Gonera<\/strong> for the short film <\/span>“First Last Summer”<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award of the President of the Polish Filmmakers Association<\/strong> for best film editing went to Zbigniew Czapla for <\/span>“On Time”<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary film <\/span>“Far Eastern Golgotha”<\/span><\/strong> (dir. Yulia Sergina)<\/strong> won the <\/span>International Documentary Competition<\/span>, thus receiving the opportunity to compete for an Oscar nomination<\/strong>. The jury consisting of Mark Cousins (UK) – Chairman, Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania), Peter Kerekes (Slovakia), Margreth Olin (Norway), and Anna Wydra (Poland) “unanimously loved the vitality of this film and the mature talent of its young director. The film shows us a socially desperate but charismatic man using disobedience to fight for democracy”.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n