The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: ''Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni'') is an annual

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...

first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in

Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. It has taken place every year since 1974, except in 1982 and 1983 when Poland was under martial law. The organizers of the festival are the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Polish Film Institute (PISF), Polish Filmmakers Association, the Pomeranian Voivodeship Local Government as well as the

port city A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ha ...

. The Polish Film Festival award is the Grand Prix Golden Lions (Polish: ''Złote Lwy''), which is different from the Eagle (Polish: ''Orzeł''), awarded at the

Polish Film Awards Polish Film Award, or Eagle ( pl, Polska Nagroda Filmowa, „Orzeł”) is a film awards ceremony given annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they are given ...

and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia). Special awards include the Platinum Lions (''Platynowe Lwy'') conferred for lifetime achievements in cinema as well as the Audience Award.

Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Kieślowski (; 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for '' Dekalog'' (1989), ''The Double Life of Veronique'' (1991), and the ''Three Colours'' trilogy (1993 –1994 ...

and

Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, ...

are so far the only film directors to have been awarded the Grand Prix three times. In 2020, Mariusz Wilczyński's ''

Kill It and Leave This Town ''Kill It and Leave This Town'' ( pl, Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta) is a 2020 Polish adult animated psychological horror film created by Polish animator Mariusz Wilczyński, in his feature film debut, from a script developed alongside Agnieszk ...

'' became the first ever animated film in the festival's history to be awarded the Golden Lions for Best Film. The jury for the 2008 competition was headed by

Robert Gliński Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co naj ...

, a director who had previously won at the festival.33rd Polish Film Festival opens in Gdynia
September 15, 2008

List of winners

The Golden Lions Award was not awarded on six occasions: in 1976, four films were instead awarded Main Prizes (Polish: ''Nagroda Główna''), the films which received this distinction were Jerzy Łomnicki's ''Ocalić miasto'',

Marek Piwowski Marek Andrzej Piwowski (; born 24 October 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his cult film ''Rejs'' (1970). Filmography * ''Rejs'' – 1970 * ''Psychodrama Psychodrama is an action method, often ...

's ''Przepraszam, czy tu biją?'',

Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the ...

's ''Smuga cienia'' and Mieczysław Waśkowski's ''Hazardziści''; in 1982 and 1983, the festival was not held due to the imposition of the martial law in Poland; in 1989, 1991 and 1996.

Gallery

File:2004 08 16 GDYNIA Festiwal Polskich Filmow Fabularnych.jpeg, Commemorative festival statue in Gdynia File:XXXIII Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych 03.jpg, Music Theatre in Gdynia, the main venue of the festival File:Festiwal Filmowy w Gdyni 2016 Czerwony Dywan Andrzej Seweryn.jpg,

Andrzej Seweryn Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to ...

at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival File:Preparing for opening of the XXXV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2010 - 3.jpg, Main entrance

References

External links

Gdynia Film Festival
– Official website
Gdynia Film Festival
at the

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{{National Cinema Awards Film festivals in Poland Gdynia Recurring events established in 1974

List of winners

Gallery

See also

References

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