Agnieszka Bielawska reports
The European Film Academy Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) went to Poland’s veteran film director Andrzej Wajda for his latest feature Sweet Rush (Tartarak). FIPRESCI's general secretary Klaus Eder described Wajda’s film as the work, “of a young spirit, with which Wajda, in a risky and courageous way, undertakes to open new and very personal perspectives for European artistic cinema of today.”
Director Marcel Łozinski received the European Short Film Award from the European Film Academy. His award-winning film Poste-Restante is about letters whose addressees are impossible to find and which therefore end up at the Undeliverable Letters Department of the Post Office in the town of Koluszki, central Poland. There are around a million of them each year. The film explores what happens to those addressed to God, Santa and deceased relatives.