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Three films by Polish directors longlisted for European Oscars

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Paweł Kononczuk 23.08.2017 08:30
Three movies by Polish directors have made the longlist for this year’s European Film Awards, Europe’s version of the Oscars.
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Andrzej Wajda’s Afterimage, Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor and Jan P. Matuszyński’s The Last Family are among the 51 feature fiction films from 31 countries that have been recommended for a nomination.

Frost, a Lithuanian-French-Polish-Ukrainian co-production written and directed by Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas, has also made the list, which the European Film Academy announced on Tuesday.

In the coming weeks, the academy’s more than 3,000 members will vote for the nominations in the European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter categories. The nominations will then be announced at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain on 4 November.

The award recipients will be selected by a seven-member jury.

The 30th European Film Awards will be handed out in Berlin on 9 December.

Afterimage focuses on the life of Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952), a pioneer of the avant-garde in Polish visual arts, an artist who refused to toe the communist party line during the Stalinist period and experienced the painful consequences of his choices.

Spoor is a crime thriller based on a best-selling novel by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, published in English as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

The Last Family is about the last three decades in the life of Poland's highly-acclaimed surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a radio journalist and translator. (str)

Source: PAP, europeanfilmacademy.org

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