Krakow Film Festival Festival Selection

IFI saturday 6:45

The Krakow Film Festival is one of Europe 's longest-running events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms , organised every year since 1961. Duruing this period the festival has become well established among similar world events, vying for primacy with the Oberhausen festival in the 1960's and 1970's. It was in Krakow that the outstanding Polish documentary makers such as Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski , Andrzej Fidyk and Marcel Lozinski began their career. It was also here that the masters of Polish animation, Ryszard Czekala, Jerzy Kucia, Julian Antoniszczak, Piotr Dumala and Zbigniew Rybczynski, winner of the Academy Award for the film Tango, made their debut.

Together with Krakow Film Festival programmer Kaja Krawczyk, Darklight have selected a number films from the 2006 programme. Over the past decade there has been a new wave of young Polish talent emerging from its prestigious film schools. Now in its 46th year the national competition at the festival hosts a program of films representing this talent and we are delighted to showcase a number of these films and animations at Darklight this year.