The Gdynia Film Festival aka FPFF (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 movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...

first held in

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

(1974–1986), now held in

Gdynia Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. It has taken place every year since 1974, except in 1982 and 1983 when

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 Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...

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 Hamburg, Manche ...

. 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 The Eagles Polish Film Awards, or The Eagles () is the national film award of Poland. It has been delivered annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they have b ...

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.

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

holds the record number of wins at the festival having been awarded the Grand Prix four times. In 2020, Mariusz Wilczyński's ''

Kill It and Leave This Town ''Kill It and Leave This Town'' () is a 2020 Polish Adult animation, adult animated psychological horror film directed by Polish animator Mariusz Wilczyński, in his feature film debut, from a script developed alongside Agnieszka Ścibior. The film ...

'' became the first ever

animated film Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

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, 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 (film), Rejs'' (1970). Filmography * ''Rejs (film), Rejs'' – 1970 * ''Psychodrama (film), Psychodram ...

'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 "P ...

'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 Martial law in Poland () existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983. The Polish United Workers' Party, government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial law and a military junta in an a ...

; 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 (Polish pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and Theatre director, director. Regarded as one of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France, and Germa ...

at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival File:Preparing for opening of the XXXV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2010 - 3.jpg, Main entrance File:Małgorzata Foremniak at opening of the XXXIV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2009 - 3.jpg,

Małgorzata Foremniak Małgorzata Irena Foremniak (; born 8 January 1967 in Radom) is a Polish actress. She has appeared in the Polish TV series '' Na dobre i na złe'' as Zofia Stankiewicz-Burska up to 2011 and she has played the role of Ash in '' Avalon''. She took ...

at the 2009 Gdynia Film Festival

References

External links

Gdynia Film Festival
– Official website
Gdynia Film Festival
at the

IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ...

{{National Cinema Awards Film festivals in Poland Culture in Gdynia Polish film awards Recurring events established in 1974

List of winners

Gallery

See also

References

External links