![]() ![]() The Warsaw Film Festival (WFF) is organised by the Warsaw Film Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. Regulations of the 39th Warsaw Film Festival, 6-15 October, 2023 *) all financial awards are subject to tax, to be paid in Poland, according to the Polish Law for current exchange rates please consult Rules The Audience Award: The audience votes for the best film from any section of the Festival. Please note that if there will be less than 4 films in a given category (live action, documentary or animation), the award in that category will not be given.ħ. The award goes to the Director(s) of the winning film. The financial part of the award: 1,000 zlotys*). There can be only one winner of the Grand Prix (no ex aequo). The financial part of the award: 2,000 zlotys*). There can be only one winner of the Documentary Competition (no ex aequo). The financial part of the award: 5,000 zlotys*). There can be only one winner of the Free Spirit Competition (no ex aequo). The award goes to the Director (Directors). The financial part of the award: 5.000 zlotys*). There can be only one winner of the Competition 1-2 (no ex aequo). The financial part of the award: 10.000 zlotys*). There can be only one winner of each of the awards in the International Competition (no ex aequo). The award can be given to an actor, composer, editor, director of photography, producer, scriptwriter or set designer. The award goes to the Director (or Directors). The financial part of the award: 100,000 zlotys*). IMPORTANT INFORMATION regarding cash awards:Ī/ payments will be made by bank transfer only the winners are requested to provide us with their banking details ī/ the entire sum of prize money will be transferred to one account of the winner Ī/ the main award – Warsaw Grand Prix, funded by the Mayor of Warsaw Persons who have any connection with films presented in the competition cannot be on the Jury. The decisions of the Juries are taken by open ballot, with simple majority. The Juries and their Presidents are appointed by the Festival Director, who has the right to attend the jury proceedings, but does not take part in the voting. Similar presentations we organised at the Beijing Film Market from 2013-2016, with our Chinese partner Film Factory, under the name China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Project. From 2009 till 2016, together with our Russian partner TVINDIE we have been presenting - in Warsaw and Moscow - films that are still works-in-progress but in which we want to interest sales agents and distributors. Five years later, we held the CentEast Market for the first time: a meeting place for professionals interested in films from Eastern Europe, described by The Hollywood Reporter as “the go-to event”. We started off modestly, in 2000, with screenings of new Polish projects for barely a dozen foreign guests. We do our best to make sure that the world takes note of Polish films, that they get screened at leading festivals, that they find their way into international distribution. We realize that film festivals are part of the giant mechanism that is the global film industry. We have been expanding the professional part of the WFF for over fifteen years. Some of the most amazing directors, like Michael Haneke, Cristian Mungiu, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ari Folman, Ashgar Farhadi, Lenny Abrahamson and hundreds of others, had usually been guests of the WFF before they reached the top. In this way, WFF audiences - usually as the first people in Poland - could discover American independent cinema as well as Asian, Latin American, Iranian, Russian and Romanian cinema. We do our best to make sure that our audiences get to know the latest and most interesting trends in world cinema as soon as possible. Selecting the films, we always remember about our audience - native Varsovians, those working or studying in Warsaw, and those in town for a short while, for instance only for the Festival. The WFF differs from other festivals in its programme, just as Warsaw differs from other cities. Established in 1985, the Warsaw Film Festival joined in 2009 the elite group of events recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (as international non-specialised film festivals - next to Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Tokyo, Moscow, Mar del Plata, Montreal, Shanghai, Cairo, Goa, and Tallinn. ![]()
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