Kraków Film Festival
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| Location | Kraków, Poland |
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| Language | International |
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The Kraków Film Festival (Polish: Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy) is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised year after year since 1961. The Artistic President of the festival is Krzysztof Gierat.
It was in Kraków that the Polish movie makers such as Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski, Bogdan Dziworski and Marcel Łoziński began their career. It was also here that the directors of animated films, including Ryszard Czekała, Jerzy Kucia, Julian Antonisz (Antoniszczak), Piotr Dumała and Zbigniew Rybczyński, winner of the Academy Award for the film Tango, made their debut.
Yet, such renowned documentary and animated film makers were not the only ones to participate and win prizes in Kraków, for the international festival laureates included also numerous artists who made their names as feature film directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Zoltán Huszárik, Jaromil Jireš, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh and the recent Oscar laureate, Jan Svěrák.
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