Film Festival Cottbus will be held in Germany from 7 to 12, November.

FFC is one of the most important festivals of Central European cinema. The event is focused on the cinema in the countries of the former communist bloc, but also countries that were economically or culturally associated with it, such as Finland, Greece and Turkey.

The student fiction film SELF will be presented in the Short Film Competition. The film has already premiered at the Kutaisi International Short Film Festival in Georgia.

screenplay and direction: Konrad Kultys
cinematography: Paula Wilczyńska
editing: Michael Stoklosa
artistic supervision: Leszek Dawid, Jakub Piątek, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Piotr Śliskowski, Andrzej Musiał
production management: Jacek Kobeszko, Wiktoria Kwoka

Teenage Olga leaves the hospital with her newborn baby. Will it be possible for her to return to her former life in the face of unwanted motherhood?

polishshorts.pl/en/films

Complete list of short films: www.filmfestivalcottbus.de

Michał Toczek's MA diploma film BE SOMEBODY is in the short film special programme  "What remains of history" 

screenplay and direction: Michał Toczek
cinematography: Tomasz Pawlik
editing: Ignacy Ciunelis, Jakub Didkowski
production management: Julia Włodarczyk
artistic supervision: Leszek Dawid, Wojciech Staroń

polishshorts.pl/en

Details: filmfestivalcottbus.de/en
still 1 - SELF
still 2 - BE SOMEBODY

Fingers crossed!