Short Film Celebration

Special screenings of short films on the occasion of the shortest day of the year – only in cinemas 

 
The winter solstice and the beginning of astronomical winter is the moment when the Sun is at its zenith on  the Tropic of Capricorn in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s the shortest day of the year! 10 years ago in France,  the idea was born to designate this day as the International Short Film Day. Every year, cinema lovers  around the world meet at the cinema to celebrate the uniqueness and magic of the short film form, also in  Poland. The shortest day is usually a movable day, passing smoothly from December 21 to 22, depending  on the year. 
 

We invite you to the Short Film Celebration, which in 2023 falls on December 22, and to short film  screenings on December 21-22 – only in cinemas! 

 ◆◆ Screenings: 

 

▸ Bytom – BCKino

21.12 18:30 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY

▸ Gdańsk – Kino Kameralne Cafe
 
22.12 16:00 – ESFAA I ➔ BILETY
22.12 17:30 – ESFAA II ➔ BILETY
22.12 19:00 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Gdynia – Gdyńskie Centrum Filmowe

28.12 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
29.12 – ESFAA I ➔ BILETY
30.12 – ESFAA II ➔ BILETY

▸ Gliwice – Kino Amok
 
22.12 20:15 – ESFAA I ➔ BILETY
22.12 21:30 – ESFAA II ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Katowice – Kino Światowid
 
22.12 18:30 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Kraków – Kino Mikro
 
21.12 19:00 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Kraków – Kino Paradox
 
18.12 19:00 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
21.12 19:00 – ESFAA I ➔ BILETY
21.12 20:30 – ESFAA II ➔ BILETY
22.12 18:00 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY
22.12 19:00 – Aktorskie Filmy Krótkometrażowe Nominowane do Oscara 2023 ➔ BILETY
 22.12 21:30 – Animowane Filmy Krótkometrażowe Nominowane do Oscara 2023 ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Kraków – Kino KIKA
 
21.12 20:00 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Poznań – Kino Pałacowe
 
22.12 19:00 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Szamotuły – Kino Halszka
 
27.12 20:00 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Tczew – Centrum Kultury i Sztuki w Tczewie
 
11.02.2024 16:00 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
10.03.2024 16:00 – Aktorskie Filmy Krótkometrażowe Nominowane do Oscara ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Warszawa – Kinoteka

22.12 17:20 – ESFAA I ➔ BILETY
22.12 19:00 – ESFAA II ➔ BILETY
22.12 20:45 – Short Waves Special ➔ BILETY
 
▸ Warszawa – Kino Luna
 

22.12 20:30 – BAFTA ➔ BILETY

On the occasion of celebrating the shortest day of the year, viewers in Poland will have the opportunity to  see various, specially selected sets of short films:  
 
◆ Short Waves Special ◆
 
A set of five short films from the official selection of the 15th edition of Short Waves Festival, the largest  short film festival in Poland, held every year in Poznań. Non-obvious cinema, breaking the boundaries of  imagination and absurdity, which cannot be 'unseen’, and you certainly want to experience it again and  again. 

– „Heart Fruit” / dir. Kim Allamand / Switzerland / 2022 / 20’
– „PASTELOZA” / dir. Marta Marianna Kubiak / Poland / 2023 / 5’
– „I Want to Go Higher” / dir. Amanda van Hesteren / Netherlands / 2023 / 23’
– „Backflip” / dir. Nikita Diakur / Germany / 2022 / 12’
– „La herida luminosa: Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays” / dir. Christian Avilés / Spain / 2022 / 23′
 
◆ BAFTA: British Academy of Film and Television Awards ◆
 
The BAFTA 2023 shorts programme includes a selection of live action and animation short film nominees,  and the winners in each category, from the 2023 BAFTA awards. They represent storytelling that reveals  the breadth and diversity of UK society, together with world class artistic and technical flair, and feature  some of the UK’s finest acting talents. 

– „Bus Girl” / dir. Jessica Henwick / United Kingdom / 2022 / 11’
– „Your Mountain Is Waiting” / dir. Hannah Jacobs / United Kingdom / 2021 / 8’
– „Irish Goodbye” / dir. Tom Berkeley, Ross White / United Kingdom / 2022 / 23’
– „Middle Watch” / dir. John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden / United Kingdom / 2022 / 12’
– „Bazigaga” / dir. Jo Ingabire Moys / United Kingdom, France / 2022 / 26’


◆ ESFAA: European Short Film Audience Award ◆

European Short Film Audience Award (ESFAA) is a selection of the best European short films from the past  year, awarded with a national audience award at partner festivals. Later, these films go on tour, competing  for the title of the best short film according to the European audience. It’s an opportunity to explore the  broad landscape of artistic short cinema, created with passion and discussing the issues that affect the  filmmakers themselves, the countries they come from, as well as bringing attention to global problems.  ESFAA gives the viewers the opportunity to experience the stylistic diversity, rediscover European cinema,  as well as decide which film according to them deserves to receive the audience award. 

 Set I:

– „Beş” / dir. Ayla Çekin Satijn / Netherlands / 2021 / 7’

– „Blue Note” / dir. Pavel Andonov / Finland, United Kingdom / 2022 / 21’

– „BabyThump” / dir. Ian Killick / United Kingdom / 2021 / 11’

– „Garrano” / dir. David Doutel, Vasco Sá / Lithuania, Portugal / 2022 / 14’

– „Rag Head (Ma Gueule)” / dir. Grégory Carnoli, Thibaut Wohlfahrt / Belgium / 2021 / 22’

Set II:

– „Tondex 2000” / dir. Jean-Baptiste Leonetti / France / 2023 / 28’

– „Sharing” / dir. Natalia Sara Skorupa / Poland / 2021 / 14’

– „Emotional Architecture 1959” / dir. Elias León Siminiani / Spain / 2022 / 30’

– „If not now, then when…?” / dir. Jens Rosemann / Germany / 2021 / 4’

◆ Oscar Nominated Short Films 2023: Live Action ◆


Five feature short films from different parts of the world. A meeting of two brothers reunited after years of  separation on a farm in Northern Ireland, a search for a missing sister with the mysterious landscape of  Greenland in the background, the adventures of rebellious girls within the strict walls of an Italian boarding  school, a surprising twist during a tram journey in the middle of the Norwegian night and an evening at the  airport in Luxembourg , which will change the life of the heroine from Iran forever.

– „Irish Goodbye” / dir. Tom Berkeley, Ross White / Ireland / 2022 / 23’

– „Ivalu” / dir. Anders Walter / Denmark / 2022 / 16’

– „The Pupils” / dir. Alice Rohrwacher / Italy, USA / 2022 / 37’

– „Night Ride” / dir. Eirik Tveiten / Norway / 2020 / 15’

– „The Red Suitcase” / dir. Cyrus Neshvad / Luxembourg / 2022 / 17’


◆ Oscar Nominated Short Films 2023: Animation ◆

An extraordinary set of heroes and their adventures – each painted with a different animated line. The  journey of a boy and his animal companions in search of their destiny, the incredible story of the survival of  a certain British sailor, the daily hikes of a father and son on steep Norwegian cliffs, the fate of a rebellious  15-year-old girl on the verge of puberty in America in the 1990s, and the meeting of an ordinary worker with  an omniscient ostrich.  


– „The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” / dir. Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy / United Kingdom / 2022 / 35’

– „The Flying Sailor” / dir. Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby / Canada / 2022 / 7’

– „Ice Merchants” / dir. João Gonzalez / Portugal, France / 2022 / 14’

– „My Year of Dicks” / dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir / USA / 2022 / 25’

– „An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” / dir. Lachlan Pendragon / Australia / 2022 / 11’ 

 


The organizer of the Short Cinema Festival in Poland is the Ad Arte Foundation and Short Waves Festival,  in cooperation with So Films, British Council, European Short Film Audience Award and Shorts TV. The  event is held under the patronage of the Arthouse Cinema Association. 

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Contact: 
Karolina Sienkiewicz 
Distribution Coordinator 
dystrybucja.adarte@gmail.com / + 48 600 271 634