Poland’s Jan Kidawa-Błoński has won the Best Director Award at the 32nd International Film Festival in Moscow for his movie Różyczka (Little Rose).

The film also received awards Vogue magazine for design, costumes and make-up.

Little Rose is set in the spring of 1968, during the student protests and anti-Semitic campaign. In order to gather information on a well-known dissident writer, security policeman Rożek sends his mistress to him, a secret agent nicknamed Little Rose. A young and beautiful woman, she eventually wins not only the writer’s trust but also his love. Eventually, she begins to appreciate the writer’s intelligence and personality, and, having realized the true nature of her relationship with Rożek, tries to break up with the past.

Little Rose won the Golden Lions at this year’s Polish Film Festival in Gdynia,

The other Polish film shown at the Moscow Festival - The Reverse by Borys Lankosz – has been named the Best Debut Feature. It entered the ‘Perspectives’ category alongside nine other films from around the world.

One of the most acclaimed Polish films of recent years, The Reverse won the Best New Director Prize at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival and received the Golden Lions at the Polish Film Festival in 2009. (mk)

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