Debut directors compete at Koszalin festival
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
23.05.2014 11:46
Poland's biggest film festival of emerging home-grown talent gets under way on Friday with the 33rd edition of the Koszalin Debut Film Festival, 'The Young and Cinema.'
Mleczny Brat. Image: Koszalin Festival
Separate competitions for full-length features and short films will be held, with 90 works qualifying this year from over 200 submissions.
All festival screenings and concerts in the seaside city in north west Poland are free of charge.
Guest of honour is director Wojciech Marczewski, who made one of the most memorable movies of the Solidarity era with his 1981 film Shivers (Dreszcze), which tells the story a young boy who is indoctrinated by the communist scouting movement.
Four of Marczewski's films are being screened as part of the festival programme.
Screenings of outstanding recent international directorial debuts will also be screened out of competition.
Bands such as Germany's Hi Fly Orchestra will be joining Polish combos such as Waglewski Fisz Emade, Marika, and Super Girl and Romantic Boys for some night-time revelry.
The festival runs until 28 May and regular updates can be found on the festival's Facebook page. (nh)