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Kuba Czekaj’s „Don’t be afraid of the dark room”, the film that was awarded the main prize in the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition during 2010 TWO RIVERSIDES Festival, received Grand Prize at 2010 Kyoto International Student Film and Video Festival. It is another prize awarded to a Munk Studio production. The film was also appreciated at festivals in Tirana, Portugal, Canada, Krakow and Gdynia.

TWO RIVERSIDES audience has a good eye for films and filmmakers meet them with pleasure. Our audience could meet Kuba Czekaj during 2010 TWO RIVERSIDES Festival. One of the meetings was held in Puławy, which is the third of our host town.

We invite you to the fifth edition of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES, July 30^th – August 7^th, 2011.

We regret to inform you of the passing of MIREK OLSZÓWKA, the founder member of the Two Riversides Association and one of the originators of the idea of moving our Festival to Kazimierz Dolny. He was the one who coined the name TWO RIVERSIDES. He passed away after a long illness on November 30^th, 2010 at the age of 50.

He was the co-founder of the Scena Ruchu Theatre in Lublin, the manager of Voo Voo rock band and the organizer and director of Different Sounds Art’n’Music Festival in Lublin.

TWO RIVERSIDES Festival team and members of the Two Riversides Association.

After stormy debate, the jury of A Different World competition reached a verdict.

The first prize was granted to Archit3kt for the film „A……ja w kra..nie czar….”.

Funnyguy1’s „Dwa Brzegi” took second place.

Third place was taken ex aequo by Wierzchu, Studmex and Wlodek for films “Proces Ekranizacji Wsi” , “Inny Świat” and “Homofilus”.

A special prize of 1000 PLN, granted by Grażyna Torbicka- the Artistic Director of TWO RIVERSIDES Festival, was awarded to ovcovca for the film entitled “Arcydzieło“.

Apart from prize money, all winners receive accreditation to 2011 TWO RIVERSIDES Festival. The organizers will also cover accommodation costs.

The Czech Republic has chosen its candidate for an Oscar. Jan Hrebejk’s ‘Kawasaki’s Rose’ will compete for the award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The feature had its Polish premiere during 2010 TWO RIVERSIDES Festival and its director and the producer were our guests.
Among the films that will compete for the Oscar in this category is Jacek Boruch’s ‘All That I Love’, also presented at the Festival in Kazimierz this year. Andrzej Chyra accepted our invitation and personally invited the audience for the screening. ‘This film doesn’t create such a historical distance like ‘Reverse’, which is extremely stylized. ‘All That I Love’ is a film about those times, about love and maturation’- he said in the interview for “TWO RIVERSIDES Voice”.

Which film will the Academy appreciate most? We’ll see on February 27^th, 2011.

Have you ever felt this thrill before entering a cinema? Before entering a land completely new, unknown, uncanny? I loved this feeling, and to this day a film is for me more of an adventure than a commercial product. Those words, expressed by Ania Stadnik- the head of the TWO RIVERSIDES Festival Programming Department, refer to the Independent School and Amateur Short Film Competition of this Festival.

56 short features were qualified for the competition this year, among them Janaína MARQUES RIBEIRO’s THE MINUTES, THE HOURS. The filmmaker accepted our invitation to Kazimierz and was present at the Polish premiere of her film.

The film was awarded the first prize at the 9^th International Film Students Meeting organized during the 58^th San Sebastian Film Festival. CONGRATULATIONS!

Dagmara Drzazga’s “Lech Majewski. The world according to Bruegel” was awarded Prix Italia for the best documentary feature. It’s the third such important award for a Polish film in the history of the Prix Italia Festival and the first granted to a film about art.

TWO RIVERSIDES audience had a chance to see the film and to meet Dagmara Drzazga, the director. Her film closed off the retrospective section of Lech Majewski’s works and at the same time it announced Majewski’s newest feature entitled “The Mill and the Cross”. Its trailer and fragments were presented during CINEMA LESSON with Lech Majewski, our special guest at 2010 TWO RIVERSIDES Festival.

The ‘Cinema Lesson- confessions of a filmmaker’ section will be continued during the 5^th edition of our Festival.

A little more than a month has passed since the closing of the 4th TWO RIVERSIDES Festival and we have already started working on its 5^th edition. We sent our programmers to festivals in Venice and Koszalin in search of new films for you but at the same time we kept up with the fates of those features that had appeared during this year’s edition of the Festival. KUBA CZEKAJ’s ‘Don’t be afraid of the dark room’, the winner of the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition, received an award of distinction in the short feature category during the ‘Young and Cinema’ Festival in Koszalin.

KATARZYNA KLIMKIEWICZ, our guest in Kazimierz this year, received Jantar 2010 award during the same festival. Our audience in Kazimierz and the Juries in Koszalin raved about her film ‘Hanoi-Warsaw’, which was later qualified to the international competition of the Krakow Film Festival as the only Polish short feature film and then received a nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film award. It’s worth mentioning that for the last few years it has been the only Polish short feature released on 35 mm film.

Jantar 2010, Stanisław Różewicz Award for the Best Director, was awarded to Paweł Sala for the film ‘Mother Teresa of Cats’. His film received a lot of attention and positive reviews during the festival in Kazimierz. From Sempember 17 you will be able to see it in cinemas. BARTEK KULAS’S animated film entitled ‘Millhaven’ received an award of distinction, and a special Jury distinction in the short documentary category was granted to EDYTA WRÓBLEWSKA’S ‘The Girl from a Reading Primer’.

We all remember the warm applause that Jan Hřebejk’s feature received in Kazimierz Dolny. It’s the best recommendation for a film. Now you can see this unusual picture in Polish cinemas.

Jan Hřebejk is well-known to Polish audience, e.g. for the Oscar-nominated ‘Divided We Fall’. During the interview conducted by Joanna Sławińska from IAR, the filmmaker – our guest at TWO RIVERSIDES Festival this year – admitted that the real subject of ‘Kawasaki’s Rose’ isn’t the communist secret service, agents or archive files but our memories about the events that took place in the Czech Republic, Poland and other countries from the former Eastern Bloc. Each character interprets them differently: the professor, broken by the secret service, his wife, daughter and the oppositionist, harmed by denunciations.

From among all feature films presented during our Festival, ‘Kawasaki’s Rose’ received most votes from the audience, gaining 4.68 points out of 5.00.

See the interview with the director, conducted during TWO RIVERSIDES Festival www.interia.tv/film/wywiady,6306,0,9,1516163

PGE Cinema

10.00 –  Rocksteady – The Roots of Reggae, reż|dir Stascha Bader, 98′
11.20 – Hipsters, reż|dir Walerij Todorowski, 115′
15.00 – Micmacs à tire-larigot, reż|dir Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 105′
17.30 – Animal Kingdom, reż|dir David Michôd, 112′

Small Cinema

12.00 – Enemies of the People, reż|dir Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath, 93′
14.00 – AWARD WINNINGS The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition
16.30 – The Simple Story About Love, reż|dir Arkadiusz Jakubik, 80′
18.30 – Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn,, reż|dir Josh Whiteman, 78′

The Audience Poll results are already known. Both ‘The Hipsters’ and ‘The Secret In Their Eyes’ are beyond the podium. We present the final list of films that have been regarded the best by TWO RIVERSIDES audience.

1. Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn 4,80
2. Waste Land 4,75
3. Kawasaki’s Rose 4,68

4. The Secret In Their Eyes 4,65
5. The Hipsters 4,63
6. Benda Bilili! 4,62
7. When You Are Strange 4,53
8. Animal Kingdom 4, 52
9. Micmacs 4,51
10. Kinshasa Symphony 4,36

Three key questions that Joanna Chludzińska and Paulina Kaucz asked Jan Hřebejk

After the screening of ‘Kawasaki’s Rose’ at Berlinale this year, you said that your film is more Polish than Czech. What did you mean by that?

When Petr Zelenka and I come to Poland, we feel really great here especially when everybody says they love our films. Some of them even exaggerate adding that they are much better than the Polish ones.

In 1980s we valued the Polish cinema of moral anxiety. We were inspired by Kieślowski, Zanussi, Wajda, Agnieszka Holland. Those films were so close to us, we treated them as ours. At the same time in Europe Fellini, Visconti made marvelous films, but they were different from our experiences. There weren’t such films in the Czech Republic. Social problem films that criticized the contemporary situation weren’t made here then. The majority of important filmmakers were expatriates and their films were forbidden- they weren’t released, were kept in storage and had to wait for better times. Věra Chytilová and Jiří Menzel, who worked in the Czech Republic at that time, made important but too creative films.

So calling my last film ‘Polish’ I probably thought about this influence of Polish cinematography on Czech films.

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The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition has already finished. The 20 members of the Jury have also completed their work and chosen the films that will receive the Main Prize and two Distinctions. Here are the results:

The Main Prize and 3000,00 PLN go to:

„Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room” directed by Kuba Czekaj. It’s a story about the limitless love of 11-year old girl Lata for her father. Lata is preparing a song for the school academy organized for the coming Father’s Day. It makes her watch her father closer than usual. While trying to describe her feelings for him, she starts to uncover his secrets

Two Distinctions and two prizes of 1000,00 PLN go to:

„8 stories that haven’t changed the world” directed by Ivo Krankowski. Eight characters – Polish Jews and Jewesses born between 1914 and 1933 – introduce us to the world of their youth, children memories and adventures. The story is build on the earliest memories and events. Personal stories, which combine into colorful image of the lost world.

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„Tomorrow I’ll be gone” directed by Julia Kolberger. The film is a story about a thirty-year-old Marta, who is tired of living with her invasive mother and trying to get away from this toxic relationship.

Congratulations to all prize-winning directors. We’d like to invite the spectators to the special screening of the prize-winning films which will be held in the Small Cinema on August 8.

The full list of the Independent Competition films, together with the Jury’s evaluation.

‘The Hipsters’ dethroned. ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ beyond the podium. We present the latest results of the Audience Poll.

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MAŁGORZATA WALEWSKA AND ROBERT GRUDZIEŃ
7th of August, 7:30 pm, Farny Church
Kazimierz Dolny

There is a promise in the air of Impressive concerts promoting the latest album of famous mezzo-soprano Marlgorzata Walewska – the star of New York’s Metropolitan Opera and many other world music scenes. The artist´s recital can be acclaimed as artistic event of the year. Concerts of Malgorzata Walewska always attract crowds. Her famous name acts as a magnet for the audience who admires her voice not only in the largest opera halls but also in the temples. Her popularity can be testified by the fact that the American magazine “Time” declared her as one of the ten most famous Poles. She feels comfortable in the repertoire of opera, oratorio and cantata also uses popular or sacral music.
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