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1. Award for the best film that tests the boundaries of documentary film in the SEFF '15 European Competition, in the amount of 15,000 PLN, funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.  Leslie's Journey (dir. Marcos Nine) Hollywood is a dream machine that can also be the land of the second chance for an actor. Leslie Howard was never the main character in his films but here, with fragments of them (memories), he goes to the borders of the reality and becomes a hero. Chimeras and Illusions makes one with the Truth.   2. Award for the most innovative documentary film language…

The organisers are happy to say that this year's West Pomerania Shorts semi-finals were a success both in terms of the number of submissions (there was a lot to choose from) as well as technical quality and variety. During three meetings (we began in spring and the last semi-final took place in late summer), the audience has voted for the following films to take part in the 2015 finals:    1. "...bawmy się razem...Woodstock 2013" by: Krzysztof Kuźnicki, Anna Wiśniewska, Andrzej Richter, Ryszard Soldat, Maria Soldat, Magdalena Richter, elena Biała, Halina Jarmołowicz, Poland 2014, 2. "Córy Wody" by: Sonia Pałęga,…

See the official trailer for Szczecin European Film Festival '15. The festival itself starts on October 17th 2015!

    We would like to thank everyone who had submitted their films to the third "semi-finals" of the West Pomerania Shorts, as well as those who watched them with us and voted for their favourites. Here are the titles qualified to the finals through voting by the audience:   "Wiatraki" by: Kuba Ptaszyński "..bawmy się razem...Woodstock 2013" by: Krzysztof Kuźnicki, Anna Wiśniewska, Andrzej Richter, Ryszard Soldat, Maria Soldat, Magdalena Richter, Helena Biała, Halina Jarmołowicz "Czcij ojca swego" by: Mateusz Żegliński   We also thank the Municipality of the City of Szczecin and the Český Film, as well as our media support:…

  The last, and therefore the most exciting "semi-final" is about to take palce. Who will the audience choose? Which titles will we see in the event's finals? We will know this in three days. Right now we can reveal which West Pomeranian films will compete on Sunday. On September 13th in Český film we will see:   1. Powiedz, co czujesz, by: Aleksander Cywiński, Magdalena Durka, Jacek Drozdowski   2. Co to jest Rak?, by: Stephanie Göde   3. Zombie, by: Szymon Karpierz   4. Manifest turystyczny Kombi, by: Aleksander Cywiński, Dariusz Kret   5. Czcij ojca swego, by: Mateusz Żegliński…

  Thanks to the OFFicyna Association, for the tenth time now Szczecin will become a film centre for north-west Poland and north-east Germany. Between October 17th and 26th Szczecin European Film Festival 2015 will be held. Over 150 films from around the world, including 40 premieres. The main competition (the European Competition and the Polish Competition) will feature 42 productions from 22 countries, and the jury evaluating them will consist of: Tomasz Raczek, Muriel Montini, Claus Löser PhD (the European Competition), Agnieszka Obszańska, Andrzej Titkow, Maja Wolińska (the Polish Competition), and Sven Eggers, Klaus Blaudzun, Roberta Wirminghaus (the Findling Award).…

The OFFicyna Association invites everyone to the third "semi-final" of West Pomerania Shorts, which will be taking place, as always, at Cesky Film on September 13th at 7:00 PM. Over a dozen films from the Westpomeranian Voivodeship will be competing for a place in the finals, which will be taking place on October 18th during Szczecin European Film Festival.   If you make films, music videos or reportages, you're welcome to send us your proposals until September 8th. Three films that receive the largest number of audience votes will get to be presented at SEFF '15. More information here.   This will not be…

  It is our pleasure to inform you that Mr Janusz Daszczyński, Chairman of the Board at TVP, has decided to fund the Audience Award of Szczecin European Film Festival '15, in the amount of 1,000 Euro. Information on other awards can be found here.

  The OFFicyna Association and the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin invite you to a double serving of the 1D Cinema project during the Castle Film Nights.    August 20th, 10:00 PM – a presentation of the laureates of the Nowa Amerika award given to film productions during last year's Szczecin European Film Festival as well as a screening of Wiesława Piećko's latest work, created with help from the Westpomeranian Film Fund Pomerania Film.    The program:   "Arefi, das Hirte" by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Iran/Germany 2013 "Furor" by Salome Laloux-Bard, Belgium 2013 "Gli immacolati" by Ronny Trocker, Italy 2013 "Hybris" by Arjan Brentjes, The Netherlands 2014 "Odchod na korze" by Peter Zakutansky, Slovakia 2013  "O…

  It is our pleasure to inform you that this year the Program Committee consisting of Jorg Foth, Joanna Wójcik, and Bartosz Wójcik has selected the following 42 films (32 for the European Competition, 10 for the Polish Competition):   European Competition:   1. "Backward run" by Ayce Kartal, 2014, 3', Turkey/France,  2. "BSB-GRU-EZE" by Aline Benchemhoun, 2015, 3'14”, France (European Premiere),  3. "Cats in Riga" by Jon Bang Carlsen, 2014, 17', Latvia,  4. "Cities" by Gusztáv Hámos, 2014, 30', Germany (Polish Premiere), 5. "Verzamelen is een Ziekte" by Kuba Szutkowski, 2014, 15'14”, Netherlands (Polish Premiere),  6. "Conversations" by Eliane…

On June 30th the Program Committee started discussing the competition section for SEFF 2015. The members of this fine council are faced with quite a challenge; let us remind you that the number of this year's submissions amounts to around 1800! The films will be selected by:   Jörg Foth – graduated from directing at the College of Film and Television in Potsdam, made his first film "Das Eismeer ruft" ("The Arctic Sea Calls") in 1983. In 1984 was employed as director at the DEFA studio, and worked there as a director's assistant and actor. Since 1991 he has been working mostly…

The OFFicyna Association, the Latarnik Publishing Institute, and CKE Stara Rzeźnia would like to invite you to a journey into the past with the first Polish girlsband - Filipinki. The program includes: a screening of Zofia Dybowska-Aleksandrowicz and Zbigniew Repleski's "Marynarka to męska przygoda;" a meeting with the members of Filipinki and the band's monograph author Marcin Szczygielski; a presentation of archived material; a photography exhibition; a broadcast of excerpts from Konrad Wojtyła's Radio Szczecin audiobook; and much more. Discover the phenomenon of the Szczecin band that has sold over a million records in a few years and reached the status of the…

Thank you all for sending in a record-breaking number of films to the European and Polish competitions. We have received 1747 submissions! By the end of June the Polish-German program committee will begin their work, which will reveal the finalists. More details soon.

The second semi-finals of West Pomerania Shorts 2015 are over. Below are the films qualified to this year's Szczecin European Film Festival finals, selected through voting by the audience:   "Lekarze dusz" by Janusz Bojański   "Zielony i czarny" by Mateusz Żegliński   "Ginsberg albo malaria" by Kuba Ptaszyński   We would like to thank all of the filmmakers who entered the competition, as well as the audience members who took part in the screening. Through this link you can see a short report by Diana Marczewska of wSzczecinie.pl.   Because in West Pomerania Shorts we obey film logic and not sports logic,…

  The second exciting semi-final of West Pomerania Shorts is almost here. On June 7th in the Český film pub we will watch 8 short films from West Pomerania. Audience members will be able to vote for their favourites. Three titles that collect the most votes will take part in the West Pomerania Shorts finals in October, during the Szczecin European Film Festival. This Sunday Český film will be screening the following productions: 1. "Piekło" by Katarzyna Grażewicz, Bartosz Kowalczyk, Tomasz Jakomulski, Kornel Roma   2. "Zasada atutu" by Janusz Bojański   3. "Szczecin stary i nowy - Brama Portowa" by Marian Koziarz  …

  As part of the June instalment pf 1D Cinema - a cycle that aims to "disenchant" documentary cinema - the OFFicyna Association, Kana Theatre Centre, and CKE Stara Rzeźnia, in cooperation with the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw, would like to invite you to two cinematic days with prominent Polish documentary filmmaker Andrzej Titkow. To celebrate the launch of the filmmaker's box-set of films, published by the National Audiovisual Institute as part of the Polish School of Documentary series, on June 9th at 18:00 the "Iluzjon" cinema (in Stara Rzeźnia) will hold a presentation of four of the films…

We have already received over 1,000 submissions for this year's Szczecin European Film Festival competition section! Let us remind you that submissions close on June 15th, so you still have over 2 weeks for editing, production, and sending us your films. The films can be submitted either via our website (the Submit a film tab), but also through Film Festival Life and FilmFreeway.

The 55th edition of the Krakow Film Festival is held from May 31st until June 7th 2015. During the 8 days of the festival, the viewers have the chance to watch (in 4 competitions and 11 non-competing sections) over 250 films, most of which are shown in Poland for the first time. The festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, the open air cinema Kino Pod Wawelem, shows, and meetings with artists. There are concerts, among others, of Wojciech Waglewski with Fisz and Emade, and Mitch & Mitch. The Dragon of Dragons award goes to Priit Pärn, eminent animated film-maker from…

We already know the first finalists of 2015 West Pomerania Shorts – time has come to find out who the next ones will be! We'd like to invite you to participate in this year's second competition of short film forms from West Pomerania!  Competition films may be produced in different conventions (such as features, documentaries, music videos, experimental forms) can be no longer than 35 minutes. The final round of the competition will take place in Autumn, as part of Szczecin European Film Festival. Come to Český film on the 7th of June at 7PM to watch the most interesting of what…

The thirteenth instalment of the international documentary film festival Gdańsk DocFilm Festival (Dignity & Work) will be held on June 11th-14th in Gdańsk, at a new venue - the European Solidarity Centre at pl. Solidarności 1. To the competition there have been over 250 films submitted from 58 countries, including the USA, UK, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Armenia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Mexico, Syria, and others. More information can be accessed through the link below.   Press info for Gdańsk DocFilm Festival      

On May 9th, Saturday, starts the the third edition of Europe Week, organised by the European Information Point Europe Direct - Szczecin. The event aims to familiarise the inhabitants of West Pomerania with the actiions undertaken by the European Union, as well as with the rights that EU citizens are entitled to. Europe Week has many events in store: May 9th – European Picnic, featuring dancing with Kapela Hałasów, storytelling with Magda Polkowska, and a visual arts station; May 12th – conference: „Poles help! Developmental cooperation in practice”; May 13th-15th - Evenings with Eropean Cinema, co-organised by the OFFicyna Association;…

  Join the 2015 Ex Oriente Film workshops, organised by SEFF's partner - the Institute of Documentary Film (Institut dokumentárního filmu - Prague, Czech Republic). For submissions they welcome interesting documentary projects from Eastern-Central Europe that are either in development or in early stages of production. More information can be found here.  

Below we present a list of films qualified to the first semi-final of West Pomerania Shorts, which will be taking place this Sunday (April 26th 2015) in the film pub Cesky Film at 7PM. We welcome the audiences and authors of the films. 1. „Zombie” by Szymon Karpierz   2. „Widok na morze” by Marcin Dąbek   3. „Basta 2014” by Łukasz Musiał   4. „Wata cukrowa” by Karol Kołodziński   5. „Rzeczywistość” by Daria Praczkowska   6. „Zombie & Porek” by Szymon Karpierz   7. „Honor” by Mateusz Żegliński    8. "Większy zjada mniejszego" by Dagmara Pochyła   9. „Córy Wody” by Sonia Pałęga    10. „Jak się bawią dziewczynki” by Aneta Sieniawska   11. „Drużyna” by Aleksander Cywiński   12.…

The first Szczecin European Film Festival press conference is concluded. It took place on April 13th 2015 in the Szczecin City Hall. Below you will find several photographs from the event. Details on the conference can be found here: Media.               

Submissions are now open to the first semi-final of West Pomerania Shorts 2015. We will be waiting for your films until April 20th 2015. The first semi-final will be taking place on April 26th in the cinematic pub Český Film in Szczecin. See you there! More info under the "Submit a film" tab.       Organisers:                                  Patron: Media patrons:     

We are pleased to inform you that the President of Szczecin has become the Patron of Honour of Szczecin European Film Festival. Just as a reminder, this year's edition will be taking place 18th-26th October.   

  On the 23rd of April a three-day film event – the affiliate Filmfestival im StadtHafen Rostock – is starting. Grab a book on the World Book Day, take a train, and FISH with us in the German harbour city!