Gdynia Film Festival

Not to be confused with New York Polish Film Festival or Seattle Polish Film Festival.

Gdynia Film Festival
Golden Lions (Polish: Złote Lwy)
Awarded for	Excellence in cinematic achievements in Poland
Location	Gdynia
Country	Poland
First awarded	1974
Currently held by	Green Border (2024)
Website	festiwalgdynia.pl

The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni) is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland.^[1]

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 of Gdynia.

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 and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia).^[2] Special awards include the Platinum Lions (Platynowe Lwy) conferred for lifetime achievements in cinema as well as the Audience Award. Agnieszka Holland 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 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, a director who had previously won at the festival.^[3]

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's Przepraszam, czy tu biją?, Andrzej Wajda'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.

Year	Director(s)	Original Title	English Title	Source(s)
1974	Jerzy Hoffman	Potop	The Deluge	[4]
1975	Andrzej Wajda	Ziemia obiecana	The Promised Land	[5]
	Jerzy Antczak	Dnie i noce	Nights and Days	[6]
1976	No award	–	–	–
1977	Krzysztof Zanussi	Barwy ochronne	Camouflage	[7]
1978	Stanisław Różewicz	Pasja	Passion	[8]
	Andrzej Wajda	Bez znieczulenia	Without Anesthesia	[9]
1979	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Amator	Camera Buff	[10]
1980	Kazimierz Kutz	Paciorki jednego różańca	The Beads of One Rosary	[11]
1981	Agnieszka Holland	Gorączka	Fever	[12]
1982	Cancelled	–	–	–
1983	Cancelled	–	–	–
1984	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Austeria	Austeria	[13]
1985	Stanisław Różewicz	Kobieta w kapeluszu	Woman in a Hat	[14]
1986	Witold Leszczyński	Siekierezada	Siekierezada	[15]
1987	Janusz Zaorski	Matka Królów	The Mother of Kings	[16]
1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Krótki film o miłości	A Short Film About Love	[17]
	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Krótki film o zabijaniu	A Short Film About Killing	[18]
1989	No award	–	–	–
1990	Wojciech Marczewski	Ucieczka z kina "Wolność"	Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema	[19]
1991	No award	–	–	–
1992	Robert Gliński	Wszystko co najważniejsze	All That Really Matters	[20]
1993	Radosław Piwowarski	Kolejność uczuć	The Order of Feelings	[21]
	Grzegorz Królikiewicz	Przypadek Pekosińskiego	The Pekosiński's Case	[22]
1994	Kazimierz Kutz	Zawrócony	Reverted	[23]
1995	Juliusz Machulski	Girl Guide	Girl Guide	[24]
1996	No award	–	–	–
1997	Jerzy Stuhr	Historie miłosne	Love Stories	[25]
1998	Jan Jakub Kolski	Historia kina w Popielawach	The History of the Cinema in Popielawy	[26]
1999	Krzysztof Krauze	Dług	The Debt	[27]
2000	Krzysztof Zanussi	Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona droga płciową	Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease	[28]
2001	Robert Gliński	Cześć, Tereska	Hi, Tereska	[29]
2002	Marek Koterski	Dzień świra	Day of the Wacko	[30]
2003	Dariusz Gajewski	Warszawa	Warsaw	[31]
2004	Magdalena Piekorz	Pręgi	Welts	[32]
2005	Feliks Falk	Komornik	The Collector	[33]
2006	Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze	Plac Zbawiciela	Saviour Square	[34]
2007	Andrzej Jakimowski	Sztuczki	Tricks	[35]
2008	Waldemar Krzystek	Mała Moskwa	Little Moscow	[36]
2009	Borys Lankosz	Rewers	Reverse	[37]
2010	Jan Kidawa-Błoński	Różyczka	Little Rose	[38]
2011	Jerzy Skolimowski	Essential Killing	Essential Killing	[39]
2012	Agnieszka Holland	W ciemności	In Darkness	[40]
2013	Paweł Pawlikowski	Ida	Ida	[41]
2014	Łukasz Palkowski	Bogowie	Gods	[42]
2015	Małgorzata Szumowska	Body/Ciało	Body	[43]
2016	Jan P. Matuszyński	Ostatnia rodzina	The Last Family	[44]
2017	Piotr Domalewski	Cicha noc	The Silent Night	[45]
2018	Paweł Pawlikowski	Zimna wojna	Cold War	[46]
2019	Agnieszka Holland	Obywatel Jones	Mr. Jones	[47]
2020	Mariusz Wilczyński	Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta	Kill It and Leave This Town	[48]
2021	Łukasz Ronduda and Łukasz Gutt	Wszystkie nasze strachy	All Our Fears	[49]
2022	Agnieszka Smoczyńska	The Silent Twins	The Silent Twins	[50]
2023	Paweł Maślona	Kos	Kos	[51]
2024	Agnieszka Holland	Zielona granica	Green Border	[52]

Gallery

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  Commemorative festival statue in Gdynia
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  Music Theatre in Gdynia, the main venue of the festival
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  Andrzej Seweryn at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival
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  Main entrance
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  Małgorzata Foremniak at the 2009 Gdynia Film Festival

See also

• Polish cinema
• List of film festivals

References

1. "Organizatorzy". Retrieved 2019-09-22.
2. The Seattle Times John Hartl, "Polish film festival finds a new home in its 15th year April 25, 2007
3. "33rd Polish Film Festival opens in Gdynia" September 15, 2008
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5. "Ziemia obiecana" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
6. "Plebiscyt nagród 40-lecia Festiwalu Filmowego w Gdyni: najlepszy film" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
7. "Złote Lwy 1977" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
8. "Pasja" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
9. "Złote Lwy1978" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
10. "Złote Lwy1979" (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
11. "Złote Lwy 1980" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
12. "Złote Lwy 1981" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
13. "AUSTERIA" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
14. "Złote Lwy 1985" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
15. "Siekierezada" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
16. "Złote Lwy 1987" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
17. "Złote Lwy 1988" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
18. "A Short Film About Killing". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
19. "Ucieczka z kina "Wolność"" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
20. "Złote Lwy 1992" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
21. "Złote Lwy 1993" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
22. "PRZYPADEK PEKOSIŃSKIEGO" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
23. "Złote Lwy 1994" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
24. "Girl Guide (1995)" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
25. "Złote Lwy 1997" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
26. "History of the Movies in Popielawy". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
27. "The Debt - Krzysztof Krauze". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
28. "LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
29. "'Tereska' wins Polish fest's top award". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
30. "Day of the Wacko - Marek Koterski". Retrieved 3 October 2022.
31. "Złote Lwy w Gdyni dla filmu "Warszawa" Dariusza Gajewskiego" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
32. "Złote Lwy dla filmu "Pręgi" Magdaleny Piekorz" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
33. "Gdynia: Złote Lwy dla „Komornika" Feliksa Falka" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
34. "'Saviour Square' wins Gdynia film festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
35. "Tricks captures grand prize at Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
36. "Little Moscow takes grand prize at Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
37. "Reverse - Borys Lankosz". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
38. "Golden Lion top prize for Little Rose". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
39. "Skolimowski's 'Essential Killing' Wins Five Awards at Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
40. "In Darkness – Agnieszka Holland". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
41. "'Ida' Wins at Gdynia Fest". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
42. ""Gods" Wins the 39th Gdynia Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
43. "2016 POLISH FILM AWARDS: "BODY/CIAŁO" WINS BEST FILM". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
44. "The Last Family emerges triumphant at Gdynia". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
45. "'Silent Night' wins big at 42nd Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
46. "Pawlikowski's Cold War wins Golden Lions in Gdynia". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
47. "Film about Holodomor wins award at Polish Film Festival in Gdynia". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
48. "„Kill It and Leave This Town" won the Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
49. "'Fears' wins Golden Lions at Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
50. "The Silent Twins wins the Golden Lions at the Polish Film Festival". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
51. Martin Blaney (25 September 2023). "'Scarborn' wins top prize at Polish Film Festival as local filmmakers voice support for Agnieszka Holland". screendaily.com. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
52. Maciej Nycz (28 September 2024). ""Zielona granica" wygrywa festiwal w Gdyni. Srebrne Lwy dla "Dziewczyny z igłą"". rmf24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 29 September 2024.

External links

• Gdynia Film Festival – Official website (in Polish and English)
• Gdynia Film Festival at the IMDb