La Belle, Gryazev and Stożek triumph at Krakow
The 50th Krakow Film Festival closed yesterday, after the seven-day event screened 250 films and hosted around 500 professionals from across the world.
US filmmaker Kaleo La Belle, who lives and works in Switzerland, triumphed in the international documentary features competition with Beyond This Place. The jury, presided by Marian Marzyński, underlined "the great intelligence of a film comparing the values of two generations of Americans, in which the son discovers the past of his father who has been absent from his life."
In the medium-length documentaries (30-60 minutes long) section, Russian director Andrey Gryazev received the Golden Horn for Sanya and Sparrow, the story of a friendship between two workers, set against a backdrop of social relations in Russia’s new capitalist era.
Meanwhile, the jury awarded five special mentions to Grzegorz Zariczny (The Dog Hill), Muriel Rebora (Who Looks After), Renate Costa (108), Marko Skop (Osadne) and Eytan Harris (As Lilith).
The international shorts competition was topped by Polish director Jakub Stożek’s Out of Reach. The film centres on two sisters, who have been raised without a mother and try, on the threshold of adulthood, to rebuild a family life.
Finally, in the national competition, the major winner was Karolina Bielawska and Julia Ruszkiewicz’s Warsaw Available, which centres on the dreams and hopes of three young girls who live in the countryside deep in the Polish provinces.
(Translated from French)
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