04/08/2014 - The co-production between Germany, Italy and Tanzania impressed in the Polish festival rankings winning 2 major awards

White Shadow [+see also:
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The movie was awarded twice over as the audience award also went to White Shadow. The FIPRESCI jury (composed of Bhaichand Patel, Engin Ertan and Bartosz Żurawiecki) awarded their prize for the fifth time in the history of the Wrocław festival, this year to History of Fear [+see also:
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It’s "the effective use of art as a tool to unravel mechanisms of social opression" that was appreciated in The Reunion [+see also:
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The winner of the European Shorts Competition was O.T. from Austrian Markus Scherer. The film’s director also received the London Film Academy Award. Second prize went to 23rd August 2008 from the trio Laura Mulvey, Faysal Abdullah and Mark Lewis. Third-prize winner of was Laure Prouvost for her Wantee. A Grand Dad Friendship with Kurt Schwitters. 

In the Polish Short Film Competition, the jury awarded the Polish-Indian co-production Where I can't be Found from Arjun Talwar, Blue Room from Tomasz Siwiński and Habitat from Arjun Talwar and Oliver Krüger.

In the New Competition – Magnify – aimed at directors from Wrocław and Lower Silesia, first prize went to the brothers Bartek and Piotr Bartos for their film Boy With a Frog.

(Translated from French)