Polish Films at 2015 Hot Docs

Several Polish documentary films will screen at this year’s Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, which runs in Canada from April 23 through May 3, 2015.

Polish Films in Awards Consideration

This year’s Hot Docs audiences will have an opportunity to see the following Polish films: Królowa ciszy (The Queen of Silence) by Agnieszka Zwiefka (World Showcase), Koniec świata (End of the World) by Monika Pawluczuk (World Showcase), and Miejsce (The Place) by Julia Popławska (Shorts). Polish films will compete for the festival awards against other documentaries from around the world.

Hot Docs Forum

Reporter, a Polish-British project directed by Magdalena Szymków, is one of the participating projects at this year’s Hot Docs Forum pitching session. Further details about this event are available here.

Hot Docs

Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary film festival and is one of the key events in the world of documentary filmmaking. For well over a decade, Hot Docs has been an annual opportunity for networking among filmmakers, producers, distributors and documentary film experts. Hot Docs is more than just a festival for documentary films from around the globe. As part of its wide initiative of developing the film industry, the Hot Docs team organizes the Doc Shop film market in the form of a digital film archive with over 1,500 film titles, as well as a pitching forum, and various conferences, panel discussions, and workshops.

The festival website is available at: www.hotdocs.ca.

Translated by Karolina Kołtun