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Winners of 29th IYAFF Ale Kino!

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29th IYAFF Ale Kino!

The Jury's verdicts:

INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR LIVE – ACTION FILMS

Golden Goats for Best Live-action Film for Children: Totally True Love
The jury picked this film as the story of falling in love was so believable and the message very positive. We liked the strong female leads whose characters made mistakes which we then watched being painfully resolved. In the words of the leading character “it felt real to me”.

Golden Goats for Best Live-action Film for Young People: Breathing
The brilliant design, acting, and cinematography were amongst the qualities which made us pick this film. The script was unpredictable, and the story revealed in layers. It looked at a very serious problem of how a socially dead, institutionalised teenager can come back to life; and in this story it used a state undertakers business as the backdrop to very great effect.

Special Mention for Short Film: The Extraordinary Life of Rocky
This film was a very funny execution of an original idea involving the role of fate. It was a confident film with a rounded and neat narrative which was only meant to entertain. The design of the film had tremendous attention to detail which added to the freshness of the ripping yarn.

Jury Special Mention: Tomorrow Will be Better
This was a beautiful work of art with some of the best performances of the festival. This film’s simplicity and authenticity told the story of an important topic with an astonishingly light hand. Its naturalism depicted children surviving in the wild forming their own rules and moral compass in the perfect way. It was a film the Jury constantly talked and debated about throughout the week.

INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR ANIMATED FILMS
Golden Goats for Best Animated Film for Children:
The Professional International Animated Film Jury gives the Golden Goats for Best Animated Film for Children to a film of high-quality design and clear story, which contains elements of entertainment, action, suspense and humour. This magic film is attractive for the whole family. It is “A Cat in Paris”, directed by Alain Gagnol and Jean Loup Felicioli, made in 2011 in co-production between France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.

Golden Goats for Best Animated Film for Young People:
The Professional International Animated Film Jury gives the Golden Goats for Best Animated Film for Young People to a short, simple and yet complex film, which uses fresh animation. The film is “Swimming Pool”, directed by Alexandra Hetmerová from the Czech Republic

The Professional International Animated Film Jury decided to give the Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for Best Polish Animation of High Artistic and Educational Value to “Looking for Lailonia” directed by Jacek Adamczak.

Special mention:
The Professional International Animated Film Jury decided to give a special mention to the film “The Last Norwegian Troll”, directed by Pjotr Sapegin from Norway, for its artistic, emotional and poetic way of conveying an important message.

Highlight:
The Professional International Animated Film Jury would also like to highlight the film “Tigers and Tattoos” directed by Karla Bengtson from Denmark. For technical reasons the film did not take part in the competition. It tells a story from a precise kid’s point of view, stressing the important role of the family. It is a brilliant combination of a story, animation and design.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S JURY FOR LIVE – ACTION FILMS

It’s a chilly night. You go to the cinema though you realize how many other things you might do at the same time. You sink into an armchair and wait for the lights to go off. Slowly, you are drawn into a story that becomes more and more captivating. Each scene turns out important. As you watch, something strange is going on. The scenes you see are seemingly the same, yet quite different. That’s because you have a chance to see the same events from the perspectives of different characters, and to notice many different aspects of the same events. A deceptively simple story turns out fascinating. You can’t hear any music, yet you feel the tension and chill oozing out of the screen. As a result, you can’t take your eyes off the screen.
The screening ends. The lights go on. You still sit with your eyes fixed on the screen and keep asking yourself: Why did they do it? What was the point? You are struck by the pointlessness of the crime. After a while, a shiver goes down your spine as you remember the note “film based on a true story”.

The Jury of the 29th International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! having watched 7 full-length and 12 short films, decided to award the Marcin prize for The Best Live-Action Film for Young People to the film “Dusk” directed by HANRO SMITSMAN.

Moreover, the Jury would like to award an honourable mention to the film “Land of the Heroes” directed by SAHIM OMAR KALIFA for:
- its unconventional presentation of the subject of conflict
- the intelligent, witty play with the cinemagoers and with humour
- the masterly use of space
- the apt metaphor of a box
- solid acting of the young stars
- vividness of the visual imagery combined with the natural severeness
- the emotions.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S JURY FOR ANIMATED FILMS
We would like to point out that we liked all the animated movies presented during this festival, but as a Jury we were obliged to choose only one. The Marcin Prize for The Best Animation for Young People goes to “The Rabbi’s Cat” by Antoine Delesvaux and Joanne Sfar. We were enchanted by its witty and clever dialogues and enthralling, vivid and very detailed animation, which shows the beauty and richness of the culture of this part of the world. This place remains mysterious and full of magic and unicorns.
We appreciated the educational value of the movie, which touches on problems such as tolerance and religious fanaticism, still relevant in the present world.
Congratulations.

CHILDREN’S JURY FOR LIVE – ACTION FILMS
MARCINEK PRIZE
You must have wondered about the meaning of life and death. Have you ever found a satisfactory answer? Has anyone ever ventured to try and answer it?
As we were watching this film, we were overcome by conflicting emotions. It is a beautiful, deeply moving story of two boys with leukemia. It shows the joy and simplicity of the heroes’ lives. It is a story full of brilliant, original animations and fragments of a video diary of a boy who wants to be like others. Few film directors undertake to touch upon such a difficult subject and succeed in presenting it in an equally simple, light-hearted and clear way.
It is a film for everyone, a film with a number of universal values. And the ultimate and most important answers are provided in the film we decided to award with our special mention: “Ways to Live Forever” directed by Gustavo Ron!
This is certainly a film to remember. Brilliant acting makes it very realistic, and the music accompanying the scenes further enriches the content. The story carries a universal message, and its clear and simple form tugs at our heartstrings. The film shows various values, such as the family, readiness to sacrifice for the sake of friendship; and the more mundane ones such as having a roof over one’s head and satisfying one’s hunger.
One important message is the importance of keeping your hopes high in the constant fight for a better tomorrow. We award the Marcinek prize to the film “Tomorrow Will Be Better” directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska.

CHILDREN’S JURY FOR ANIMATED FILMS
The Children’s Animated Film Jury after a long and heated debate, decided to award the film, in which the power of child’s wishes turned evil into good.
The Marcinek prize goes to the makers of the film “A Cat in Paris” directed by Alain Gagnol and Jean Loup Felicioli.

The Jury also decided to give special mention to the film which opens our eyes to the world perceived by all the senses except sight.
The special mention goes to the makers of “Private Eyes” directed by Nicola Lemay.

POLISH FILMMAKERS ASSOCIATION

The Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for Best Live-action Film of High Artistic and Educational Value: Gimme Some Respect, dir. Pekka Karjalainen
A tale involving tolerance and education which was at times extraordinarily moving. It skilfully told the story of how all people in society have the right to be fully loved. It dealt with the rights of the disabled without stereotyping or mawkishness in a new and entertaining way.

The Professional International Animated Film Jury decided to give the Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for Best Polish Animation of High Artistic and Educational Value to “Looking for Lailonia” directed by Jacek Adamczak.

Date:

10.12.2011

Saturday, December the 10th 2011

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Date:

10.12.2011

Saturday, December the 10th 2011

Ale Kino! Football Zone

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“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that”. - Bill Shankly
Football is much more than just 22 lightly dressed persons, in most of the world usually men, and in the USA more often women, running around on a huge lawn chasing a leather ball. Today, the football industry is a factory of money for some, but for many it’s a factory of dreams. Through football, millions of people try to satisfy their expectations and needs. And this is the main subject of this year’s edition of Ale Kino! football zone. Here, we will see African children dreaming of a dignified, healthy life; a 19th-century German teacher dreaming of a school ruled by equality, partnership and friendship; a Norwegian 11-year-old dreaming of love and freedom from the school tyrant; young Venezuelans dreaming of breaking free from the clutches of gangs and slums; a German professional footballer dreaming of being something more than just a ball kicker; or the Iraqi dreaming of a country free from war. And, if you can believe it, all of these people connect their dreams with football! Yet, it is not a panacea for the evil of the whole world. Maybe, on the contrary, it is yet another version of the opium of the people? But, as we can see in most of the screened films - it sometimes helps, or at least gives hope.
Jerzy Moszkowicz, football fan and cinema lover

Date:

02.12.2011

Platinum goats

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The Organisers of the 29th International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! decided to award two directors and one fi lm with the Festival special awards
– the Platinum Goats.

- To “The Story of the Golden Boot” by Sylwester Chęciński - one of the first Polish feature films for children, made 50 years ago, skilfully combining a sort of detective story with a beautiful story regarding the creation of an artistic masterpiece. This film moved, entertained, as well as – according to the well-known formula – taught about great art many generations of the youngest Polish citizens.
- To Co Hoedeman, an outstanding artist from Canada, for his career achievements and his innovative input in animated cinema, and in particular for the creation of Ludovic teddy bear, the best friend of the youngest children, and a wonderful member of the worldwide family of our favourite bears, to which we must also include the former prize-winner, our Polish Miś Uszatek. The life of the small Ludovic is full of all sorts of events. Although they take place not far away from home and under the watchful eyes of loving parents, thanks to Ludovic’s imagination they change into incredible adventures which always end well, because the bear’s surroundings are full of love and order. Such a warm and safe picture of Ludovic’s world brings the viewers (both young and older) the priceless feeling of harmony and joy of life.

- To Jiří Menzel, a Czech director, for his unique input in European and world cinema. As a
young audience festival, we particularly revere the film CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, being one of the world’s masterpieces of cinematography, which moves and entertains everybody, young viewers included, with the story of a young man guided by his own moral
compass against the world of adults, on the threshold of which he is standing. It is the world where he will have to make a heroic choice when the dramatic history of 20th-century Europe calls for him. Additionally, this film, full of fantastic humour, includes a scene showing the most beautiful collapse of an official authority. Anyone who has seen it in their youth will be equally or even more arrested by it in one’s later years.

Date:

28.11.2011

Martin Strange Hansen – the third Oscar-winning guest of the 29th IYAFF Ale Kino!

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One more person has joined the group of Oscar-winning guests of the Ale Kino! festival. Now, besides Jiří Menzel and Co Hoedeman, it includes also the third film artist who has just confirmed his arrival: Martin Strange Hansen. Hansen will be presenting his latest short film “Jensen Lives Here” in the COMPETITION section of the Poznań Festival. The screening will take place on Friday, 9 December, at 9.30. It is a bitter-sweet comedy about 7-year-old Sophie, who gets a long-awaited gift from her parents: a hamster called Jensen. Unfortunately, together with the gift comes a message: her parents are getting divorced and dad is soon moving out.

The short will be presented as part of the collection “Invasion from Planet Schrump and Other Short Films” (9 December 2011, 9.30 am).

Martin Strange Hansen (b. 1971) is a young Danish filmmaker, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his short “Der er en yndig mand” (2002). His filmography includes: “Feeding Desire” (28 min., graduation film), “The Charming Man” (29 min.), “Come on Baby”, “True Spirit” (89 min.), “Nynne” (TV series), “Pinly & Flau” (6 episodes).

Date:

29.11.2011

Seans filmowy

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Miejsce:

Multikino 51

Date, time:

Friday, 9 December, 2011 - 09:30

Seans filmowy 407

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Miejsce:

Multikino 51

Date, time:

Thursday, 8 December, 2011 - 17:30

Seans filmowy 404

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Miejsce:

Multikino 51

Date, time:

Sunday, 4 December, 2011 - 14:00

Thursday, 8 December, 2011 - 12:00

Zestaw:

Tygrysy i tatuaże

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Teaser of 29th IYAFF Ale Kino! 2011

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We are very happy to present 29th IYAFF Ale Kino! teaser

Date:

21.11.2011

Seans filmowy 394

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Zgłoszenie:

Eksperimentet

Miejsce:

Multikino Stary Browar

Date, time:

Monday, 5 December, 2011 - 19:30

Ale Kino

Winners of 29th IYAFF Ale Kino!

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Saturday, December the 10th 2011

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Ale Kino! Football Zone

Platinum goats

Martin Strange Hansen – the third Oscar-winning guest of the 29th IYAFF Ale Kino!

Seans filmowy

Seans filmowy 407

Seans filmowy 404

Teaser of 29th IYAFF Ale Kino! 2011

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