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International Competition

Jury: Angelika Ramlow, Carlos Ramos, Zuza Banasińska

➔ I Award  6000 PLN

Dildotectonics / Tomás Paula Marques / Portugalia / 2023 / 16’

➔ II Award  – 4000 PLN

I Saw the Face of the Devil / Julia Kowalski / Francja / 2023 / 35’

➔ III Award – 2 000 PLN

Why Are You Image Plus? / Diogo Baldaia / Portugalia / 2023 / 9’

➔ Audience Award­ – 2 000 PLN

A Kind of Testament / Stephen Vuillemin / Francja / 2023 / 17’

Polish Competition 

Jury: Filip Kozłowski, Ygor Gama, Ren Scateni 

➔ I Award – 5000 PLN 

ZIMA / Tomasz Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki / Poland / 2023 / 26’ 

➔ II Award – 3000 PLN

Skraj (Edge) / Edmund Aleksander Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski / Poland / 2023 / 18’

➔ Audience Award – 1000 PLN 

Skraj (Edge) / Edmund Aleksander Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski / Poland / 2023 / 18’

MOVES Competition

Jury:  Jacek Łumiński, Henk van der Meulen, Helena Jonsdottir

➔ I Award – 5000 PLN 

Unless We Dance / Fernanda Pineda Palencia, Hanz Rippe Gabriele / Kolumbia / 2023 / 15’

➔ II Award – 3500 PLN

Dear Passengers / Madli Lääne / Estonia / 2022 / 11’

➔ Special mention

Backflip / Nikita Diakur / Francja, Niemcy / 2022 / 12’

➔ Audience Award – 1000 PLN

And Me, I’m Dancing Too / Mohammad Valizadegan / Iran / 2023 / 21’

RAW Competition

➔ Audience Award– 5000 PLN 

 Enflightenment / Wey Yinn Teo / Malaysia / 2023 / 11’


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International Competition

Jury members: Nicolas Khabbaz, Carla Vulpiani, Alan Zejer.

● I Award – 10 000 PLN

Über Wasser (On Solid Ground) / Jela Hassler / Switzerland / 2021 / Fiction / 12’

●● II Award – 5 000 PLN

Sierra / Sander Joon / Estonia / 2022 / Aniimation / 16’

●●● III Award – 2 500 PLN

Marblehead / Jack Auen, Kevin Walker / USA / 2021 / Fiction / 10’

● Honourable Mention

Nights and Days in July / Jana Bringlöv Ekspong / Sweden / 2021 / Fiction / 15’

● Audience Award – 2 000 PLN

Marblehead / Jack Auen, Kevin Walker / USA / 2021 / Fiction / 10’

 

Polish Competition

● Youth Jury Award – 2 000 PLN

Youth Jury Members: Zofia Gorzkowska, Jakub Baliński, Ada Wójkiewicz.

Sharing / Natalia Sara Skorupa / Poland / 2021 / Documentary / 14’

● Audience Award – 4 000 PLN

Sharing / Natalia Sara Skorupa / Poland / 2021 / Documentary / 14’

 

Polish Experimental Film Competition

Jury members: Anna Konik, Sanne Jehoul, Yuyan Wang.

● Main Award – 5 000 PLN

Ziemia wchłonie to wszystko / Dominik Ritszel / Poland / 2021 / Experimental / 9’

● Honourable Mention – 1 500 PLN

To my friends. Next room (Hotel Monterey) / Jan Domicz / Poland / 2021 / Experimental / 9’

 

Urban View Competition

Jury members: Jord den Hollander, Oana Ghera, Marta Marczak.

● Main Award – 5 000 PLN

Misty Picture / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller / Germany / 2021 / Experimental / 16’

● Honourable Mention

A Banana Tree Is No Coincidence / Luiza Gonçalves / Spain / 2021 / Documentary / 10’

● Audience Award – 1 500 PLN

Piazzale d’Italia / Enea Zucchetti / Switzerland / 2021 / Documentary / 18’

 

Dances with Camera Competition

Jury members: Lucia De Rienzo, Simona Deaconescu, Blas Payri.

● I Award – 5 000 PLN

PASSAGE / Ann Oren / Germany / 2020 / Experimental / 13’

●● II Award – 2 000 PLN

Neon Phantom / Leonardo Martinelli / Brazil / 2021 / Fiction / 20’

● Honourable Mention

IO|OI / Francesco Lorusso / Italy / 2021 / Fiction / 9’

● Audience Award – 1 500 PLN

Ag:Au / Alex Cantouris / UK / 2021 / Fiction / 3’

 

ZEF Award for the Best Film in SWF For Youth Section – Jury of Film Educator’s Team

ZEF Jury members: Karol Szafraniec, Kaja Łuczyńska, Karolina Giedrys.

● Spotless / Emma Branderhorst / Netherlands / 2021 / Fiction / 16’

 

New Point of View Awards – European Short Film Network / This Is Short

Jury members: Viet Vu, Robin Curtis, Natalia Sielewicz

● I Award – 4 000 Euro

White Shadow / Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet / UK, Switzerland / 2021 / Fiction / 11’

●● II Award – 2 000 Euro

How to Order Online / Julie Ramage / Francja / 2021 / Documentary / 9’


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International Competition

Jury:

  • Marta Prus
  • Gerald Weber
  • Ioakim Mylonas

Awards:

  • I Award – 10 000 PLN / A Lack of Clarity, dir. Stefan Kruse Jorgensen, Denmark 2020
  • II Award – 5 000 PLN / Same/Different/Both/Neither, dir. Adriana Barbosa, Fernanda Passoa, Brazil/USA 2020
  • III Award– 2 500 PLN / Blue Honda Civic, dir. Jussi Eerola, Finland 2020
  • Honourable Mention / Push This Button if you Need to Panic, dir. Gabriel Böhmer, United Kingdom 2020
  • Audience Award – 2 000 PLN / Still Processing, dir. Sophy Romvari, Canada 2020

Polish Competition

Jury:

  • Tomasz Kolankiewicz
  • Peter Cerovšek
  • Suzy Gillett

Youth Jury:

  • Dobrochna Walczak
  • Pola Nowacka
  • Karolina Majchrzak

Awards:

  • Main Award – 7 500 PLN / Equinox, dir. Daria Kasperek, Poland 2020
  • Youth Jury Award – 1 000 PLN / Vyraj, dir. Agnieszka Nowosielska, Poland 2020
  • Audience Award – 2 000 PLN / We have one heart, dir. Katarzyna Warzecha, Poland 2020

Polish Experimental Film Competition

Jury:

  • Ewa Szabłowska
  • Piotr Bosacki
  • Marina Kožul

Awards:

  • Main Award – 5 000 PLN / untitled, dir. Daniel Dąbrowski, Poland 2020
  • Honourable Mention / Inside me (To co we mnie siedzi), dir. Mateusz Kułacz, Poland 2020

Dances with Camera

Jury:

  • Mary Wycherley
  • Wojciech Mochniej
  • Anna Alexandre

Awards:

  • I Award – 5 000 PLN / CAN’T KILL US ALL, dir. Botis Seva, United Kingdom 2020
  • II Award – 2 000 PLN / Fibonacci, dir. Tomáš Hubáček, Czech Republic 2020
  • Honourable Mention / Navigation, dir. Marlene Millar, Canada 2020
  • Honourable Mention / Ben, dir. Gabriel Beddoes, Ilaria Vergani Bassi, Mattia Parisotto, Teresa Sala, Italy 2020
  • Audience Award – 1 000 PLN / You wanted rivers, dir. Magdalena Zielińska, Poland 2020

Urban View

Awards:

  • Audience Award – 5 000 PLN / Enter Through the Balcony, dir. Roman Blazhan, Ukraine 2020

2020 brought unexpected changes, which resulted in the transfer of the 12th Edition Short Waves Festival from March to August. The coronavirus outbreak caused the Festival to take hybrid form – there were about 50 events in Poznan on August 18, and on the Filmchief Hub platform, industry guests and viewers from all over Poland could watch around. 200 movies. Adhering to the epidemiological restrictions and situations, we were able to host about 50 local and international guests, and together – online and offline – visited our Festival 5000 viewers and the videos on the platform have been watched more than 3500 times! The international jury and the audience presented 12 awards with a total pool of 42 thousand.
 
There were as many as 5 competition programs this year: in addition to the well-known International, Polish, Urban View and Dances with Camera, the Polish Experimental Films Competition joined, including 77 titles from 36 countries.
 
Two focus programs took place as part of the ′′ Fixing the Future ′′ festival motto: a Lebanese cinema review prepared by the curator and director of the NDU International Film Festival in Lebanon – Nicolas Khabazza, and a set of four sets of socially and politically engaged: Eco Activism, You Have Choice, Art of Protest and the future worlds.
 
The out-of-competition section also included the entertainment band: Comedy, Horror and Kinky Shorts, as well as screenings of films nominated for European Film Awards or Spotlighty: a review of Thomas Popakula’s films, a program of Scottish short-metre or a set of the latest productions represented by sixpackfilms – the agency for distribution and promotion of Austrian video – art.
 
Short Waves Festival’s unique summer edition opened up many opportunities for the team, allowing 12 outdoor shows to be organized. in. in. on ContainerArt, at the Art Marina k / Concordia Design or in the Shelter Project. Warm evenings were diversified by a new version of Random Home Cinema, whose transformation consisted of moving shows from private cognition apartments to their gardens.
 
The industry’s events took place mostly online, allowing for cooperation with many friendly festivals m. in. in. Glasgow Short Film Festival or FeKK Short Film Festival. We focused on the current situation, talking about VR-ze, potential educational short-term or collaboration during the pandemic times. Additionally, there were meetings as part of the Hotel Europe project, which consisted of screenings of films and discussions with the creators, as well as a hybrid experimental event – a meeting of artists, curators and filmmakers. A wandering festival club was established allowing for conversations and meetings with guests in different locations in Poznan m. in. in. in the East Bank, Barbarka with peace or HOUSE School.

 


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The 11th edition of Short Waves Festival took place in Poznań from 19th to 24th March 2019 under the “Outside the box / From a different perspective” slogan.

In 6 festival days 66 events took place, 225 films were presented for 8500 viewers. 72 guests both from the country and abroad took part in the film and industry program. 11 awards were awarded in 4 competitions and the total prize pool was 47,5 k PLN.

The most important points of the festival program included regional focus dedicated to South-East Asia cinema, special shows: presentation of dance films from Germany, new Polish experimental cinema, music videos from London Short Film Festival, as well as audiovisual live-act performed by Rainer Kohlberger.

Educational and industry activities included long-term educational project implemented with the Team of Communication Technician from Poznan, a series of Creativity Talks discussion panels implemented from the British Council dedicated to video-art programming and film criticism around the medium of short film.

There were also event cinema events like KINO FORMA – site specific shows carried out in the space of the Republika Sztuki Tłusta Langusta, Random Home Cinema shows in the private apartments of Poznań residents, as well as music videos at the festival club.

 


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The most concise festival in Poznan Short Waves Festival 2018 took place from 20th to 25th of March. The special nature of this year’s Festival manifests itself mainly in a very extensive programme, which embraces 5 competitions and also a huge variety of non-competition screenings. The novelty of festival’s programme was thematic division in international competition and come back of Urban View competition focusing on architecture, design and urban issues. Under the slogan in or out Festival was centred around recent social processes aiming at closing borders in human relationships and also strong social segregation. The question of being in or out can be also found in social focus programme, which presented recent problems of Great Britain, but also in A Wall is a Screen project, which formula allowed to leave the traditional cinema space and enjoy the film screening on urban walls. There was also a new art project called Kino Forma – a site-specific project showing relations between sound art and everyday life. In line with the festival’s slogan the team decided to invite the festival’s audience to take part in creating the festival by showing their favourite films on Do It Yourself screening. During the 10th edition of Short Waves Festival there was a special event called All In, which was a celebration of 10 years work on the festival, and also sign of respect for all the people creating Short Waves Festival through all these years.

This year’s edition once again took care of industry programme: European Short Pitch and Creativity Talks, which promoted young contemporary cinema and also opened a discussion regarding to film programming and access to audiovisual art. For the first time SWF team created a programme dedicated to people with hearing impairment called Deaf Shorts.

Every intense day was culminated in the festival’s club PIES andaluzyjski, which offered not only film screenings but also the possibility to meet artists and filmmakers from all over the world.

 


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Short, concise, diverse. Short Waves Festival 2017 was the 9th editon of the international short film festival, which took place on 21-26 March in Poznan. The edition’s motto was “beyond borders”, which aimed to illustrate the diminishing of borders between various art forms and decrease in importance of division between creators and consumers of culture. Focus on German cinema was an important element of the program and included screenings of film selections from Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Christoph Girardet retrospective and an exhibition of works created by Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. Short Waves repertoire also included short animations and features of last year’s Oscar nominations – Oscar Nominated Shorts, and films nominated for European Film Awards. A new addition to the program called New Queer Visions tackled the issues of sexual, cultural and racial diversity. The festival program also offered film selections dedicated to specific age groups: SWF: Family for children and Man Who Can for seniors. For the first time, the program included a unique set of music videos entitled Saving Pop Culture from Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. There were also special events such as Fusion Cinema and Random Home Cinema: famed film screenings in Poznanians’ private apartments, industry meetings and discussion panels as a part of European Short Pitch and Poznan Industry Day, including project and screenwriting workshops. The program was completed with festival club afterparties located at LAS venue on Małe Garbary Street.

 


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Short Waves Festival 2016 was an 8th edition of the international short film festival, which took place on 15-20 March 2016. Its motto “we are open” guaranteed a broadly defined openness both to current affairs, other people and ideas. SWF 2016 was also concerned with formal openness. By defying the standard format of a festival, Short Waves goes beyond the strict time frame. Without a beginning, without an end as Short Waves organizes events throughout the year and across Poland. The event’s main competiton, Poznan Open (winner: “Edmond”, dir. Nina Gantz) was open to artists from all over the world, what granted it an international status. SWF also consisted of one-of-a-kind competitions: Best of Seven (winner: “Object”, dir. Paulina Skibińska) and Dances with Camera (winner: “Gone”, dir. Helena Jónsdóttir, Vera Sölvadóttir), and unique Random Home Cinema: film screenings in Poznanians’ private apartments. The festival repertoire also included experimental and video-art films as a part of Art Shorts and Poznan Wave. There were also many workshops and interesting industry events during Poznań Industry Days. Another exciting part of the program was the Festival Club that changed its location throughout the festival to give the attendees an opportunity for a multidimensional experience of the city.

 


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The festival’s 7th edition was made up of two parts. The first part, “Grand Prix Tour”, started on March 6th and consisted of a tour of screenings all over Poland. The audience’s task was to select the winner in the poll. Their verdict: “It would be something beautiful” by Anna Morawiec. During the second, stationary part of the festival, the audience had the opportunity to watch films entered into four competitions: Polish “Poznan Open” (winner: “Home”, dir. Agnieszka Borowa) and international: “Dances with Camera” (winner: “Beating”, dir. Kari Sulc, Tereza Hradilkova), “Best of Seven” (winner: “Cambodia 2099”, dir. Davy Chou) and “Urban View” (winner: “Alberdi’s Heroes”, dir. Andres Grabois). The screenings outside of the competition were “Random Home Cinema” and “Park_in’ Cinema”.

SWF also included the “Film Poster Design Workshop” and “Graphic Design and 3D Animation Workshop”. Among the guests hosted by the festival were the directors of Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Brest European Short Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Riga International Film Festival, Rover Film Festival, and FEST New Directors/New FIlms.WF 2015.WF 2015

 


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The 6th edition of Short Waves Festival commenced on 14th March 2014 with an international “Grand Prix Tour”. The audience voted “Our Curse” directed by Tomasz Śliwiński as best documentary picture, presenting it with the Grand Prix award.

Two new competitions were added to the festival program: “Poznan Open” which aimed to promote the Polish artists (winner: “The Aunt’s Killing”, dir. Mateusz Głowacki) and “Dances with Camera”: an international competition of films on dance (winner: “Washed”, dir. Daphna Mero). The organizers added workshops that mirrored the processes of film production “Film Rave”, film poster design workshop, and discussion panels for film industry professionals. Film screening sets designed specifically for children and seniors, and screenings of Greater Poland artist’s work called “Poznan Wave” were also added to the program.

The festival hosted many notable guests including: directors of London Short Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Brest European Short Film Festival, and activists from CinemaHall and KinoKlub Zagreb.

2011 marked the third time that Polish Short Film Festival SHORT WAVES has travelled across cinemas and venues of the world. The programme included 11 hottest Polish shorts: narratives, documentaries, animations, video-arts and music videos.
Between March 24th and April 16th the Festival has visited 38 Polish cities plus Berlin, Dublin, London, Munich, Porto and Zilina. The audience of 5.000 from 8 countries took part in the voting and determined the winner.
Grand Prix and the money prize of 2.500 EUR went to Piotr Bosacki, the author of “Drakula”. What’s more, a special Short Waves PRO award of 1.250 EUR has been given to Igor Chojna, the author of “Przez szybę (Through Glass)”. The international jury was composed of experts in audiovisual culture: Laurence Boyce, Frank Bretschneider, Graham Daniels, Mikołaj Jazdon and Bartosz Żurawiecki.

Between 12th and 28th of April Short Waves Festival visited over 30 Polish cities, as well as few selected ones abroad (Berlin, Dublin, Helsinki, London, Porto, Prague, among others) but at the time the capital of short films undoubtedly became Poznan. This year the programme consisted of 10 shorts carefully selected from over 220 applications. Among them were narratives, documentaries, animations, experimental films and music videos. This year the undisputed winners were Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski, the authors of „Noise“, which won not only Audience Grand Prix Award and 2 500 EUR but also Short Waves PRO Canal + and 1 250 EUR awarded by the international jury.

2011 marked the third time that Polish Short Film Festival SHORT WAVES has travelled across cinemas and venues of the world. The programme included 11 hottest Polish shorts: narratives, documentaries, animations, video-arts and music videos.
Between March 24th and April 16th the Festival has visited 38 Polish cities plus Berlin, Dublin, London, Munich, Porto and Zilina. The audience of 5.000 from 8 countries took part in the voting and determined the winner.
Grand Prix and the money prize of 2.500 EUR went to Piotr Bosacki, the author of “Drakula”. What’s more, a special Short Waves PRO award of 1.250 EUR has been given to Igor Chojna, the author of “Przez szybę (Through Glass)”. The international jury was composed of experts in audiovisual culture: Laurence Boyce, Frank Bretschneider, Graham Daniels, Mikołaj Jazdon and Bartosz Żurawiecki.

The 2nd edition of Polish Short Film Festival SHORT WAVES took place between the 15th and 30th of April 2010. The screenings took place in 30 Polish cities and also in Berlin, Dublin and London. The almost-2-hour programme was filled with the best Polish shorts produced since 2008: award-winning ones as well as few premieres. We chose the best films from over 150 submissions. Among them were narratives, documentaries, animations, videoclips, video-art and advertisements. The audience members in every city had a chance to vote for their favourite film. The winner of the Festival awarded with the money prize of 2.000 EUR was Marcin Maziarzewski, the author of “Brzydkie słowa (Bad Lyrics)”. There was also a second award for the winner of the audience voting in the city of Szczecin – the Szczecin Wave Award of 1.500 EUR. It went to Tomasz Wolski, the author of “Szczęściarze (Lucky Ones)”.

The 1st edition of Polish Short Film Festival SHORT WAVES took place between 16th and 30th of April 2009. In these two weeks the audience in 28 Polish cities – as well as in Berlin, London and Dublin – had a chance to see the best short films from Poland.
The 2-hour programme consisted of 12 films: not only narratives, documentaries and animations, but also videoclips, video-art and an advertisement. Apart from various festival winners, the collection included films submitted directly for Short Waves.
The audience contribution was crucial to the Festival. In every city, where a screening took place, the viewers voted for the best film. Audience Grand Prix and the money prize of 1.500 EUR went to Jan P. Matuszyński, the author of “Myjnia (Carwash)”. The special jury of international platform of short film promotion and presentation Future Shorts gave its vote to Bartosz Blaschke, the author of “Ziętek”. As a result, his film was included in the international Future Shorts’ distribution. Szymon Stemplewski – the Festival’s director – decided to honour with a special award “Film o Kostuchu” by Piotr Bosacki. Therefore three films by Bosacki were presented during Polish screenings of Future Shorts.