What did Andrzej Wajda’s first ventures into filmmaking look like before he became one of the most important directors in Polish cinema? As part of ‘Fall for Films in the Kujawy Pomorze Region – Cinematic Confections: Andrzej Wajda’, we look back at the beginnings of his creative journey and the years when, alongside him at Łódź Film School, future masters of Polish cinema were taking their first steps as filmmakers.
Thanks to the support of the Regional Government of Kujawy and Pomorze and the invaluable collaboration of Łódź Film School and Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF), the festival will present student etudes and short films by Wajda and his contemporaries, including Kazimierz Karabasz, Janusz Morgenstern and Kazimierz Kutz. Rarely seen by wider audiences, these films offer a glimpse of the moment when the individual styles of filmmakers who would soon help shape Polish cinema were only beginning to emerge.
The Pottery at Ilza, dir. Andrzej Wajda © Łódź Film School
The festival programme will also include the seminar ‘Editing in the Films of Andrzej Wajda’, led by editor and Dean of Łódź Film School Milenia Fiedler, this year’s recipient of our special Award for Film Editor. Drawing on selected scenes, Milenia Fiedler will explore the rhythm and structure of Wajda’s films and the creative dialogue between the director and his editors, with particular attention to his long-standing collaboration with Halina Kettling-Prugar.
The Main Patron of the film review is the Regional Government of Kujawy and Pomorze.
Partner of the review is Kujawy Pomorze Film Fund.
