Documentary Films Competition "Image of the World - World in Images"
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For this year's Documentary Films Competition, held within the Documentary Films Section of 'Image of the World - World in Images' under the patronage of Discovery Networks Central Europe, the entries were accepted for two separate categories: feature-length and short. The decision on which movie will be awarded the Grand Prix - the Golden Frog will be made during the Festival by an international jury, separate for each category. Furthermore, independently from the jury, the patron of the Documentary Films Section will grant the statuettes of Discovery Networks Central Europe.

From November 27th to December 4th in Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz the fans of documentaries will have a chance to see the movies screened at IDFA, Silverdocs, Berlinale and Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. For the Documentary Films Competition we have lined up 12 feature-length documentaries and 22 short ones.


FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION

Feature documentaries will be judged by:

• Jay Rosenblatt (Jury Chairman), director, editor, producer, Human Remains, The Darkness of Day, King of the Jews, The Smell of Burning Ants
• Midge Costin, sound editor, Crimson Tide, The Rock, Armageddon, Con Air, Professor in the Art of Dialogue and Sound Editing at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
• Nancy Schreiber, cinematographer, Dead Beat, The Celluloid Closet, November
• Lawrence Grobel, writer, author of biographies of Marlon Brando, Truman Capote and others, lecturer at UCLA in Los Angeles
• Michael Chapman, cinematographer, Raging Bull, The Fugitive, Taxi Driver
• Marcin Koszałka, cinematographer, scriptwriter, Reverse, Till It Hurts, The Welts, at this year's Plus Camerimage he'll present The Declaration of Immortality
• Barbara Bilińska, Channel Director Poland, Discovery Networks Central Europe

Below you will find the list of the nominees in this category:

AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA
director: Michał Marczak
cinematographer: Radosław Ładczuk
country: Poland
year: 2010

CONTACT
director: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
cinematographer: Bentley Dean
country: Australia
year: 2009

LA MACHINA
director: Thierry Paladino
cinematographer: Michał Marczak, Marcin Sauter
country: Poland, France
year: 2010

LETTERS FROM THE DESERT (EULOGY TO SLOWNESS)
director: Michela Occhipinti
cinematographer: Pau Mirabet
country: Italy
year: 2010

LIVES OF THE ARTISTS FOLLOW ME DOWN
director: Ross Cairns
cinematographer: Daniel Trapp
country: UK
year: 2010

MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
director: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
cinematographer: Andrew Thompson
country: UK
year: 2009

NORTH FROM CALABRIA
director: Marcin Sauter
cinematographer: Łukasz Gutt, Radosław Ładczuk
country: Poland
year: 2009

OATH, THE
director: Laura Poitras
cinematographer: Kirsten Johnson, Laura Poitras
country: USA
year: 2010

RED CHAPEL, THE
director: Mads Brügger
cinematographer: René Johannsen
country: Denmark
year: 2009

RESTREPO
director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
cinematographer: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
country: USA
year: 2009

SUMMER PASTURE
director: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III
cinematographer: Nelson Walker III
country: Tibet
year: 2010

THIS WAY OF LIFE
director: Thomas Burstyn
cinematographer: Thomas Burstyn
country: New Zeland
year: 2009


SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS COMPETITION

Short documentaries will be judged by:

• Robert Epstein (Jury Chairman), director, screenwriter, producer, The Celluloid Closet, The Times of Harvey Milk, Howl, Paragraf 175, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
• Ed Lachman, cinematographer, director, Howl, Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, Far from Heaven
• Robert Fischer, director, writer, author of biographies of Hitchcock, Welles, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Melville, Bresson, Fassbinder
• Małgorzata Szumowska, director, producer, screenwriter, 33 Scenes From Life, Happy Man, Seven Lessons of Love, There Is Nothing To Be Afraid
• Magdalena Szczawińska, On-Air Director, Discovery Networks Central Europe
• Anastas Michos, cinematographer, Duplex, The Education of Little Tree, Man on the Moon, Mona Lisa Smile
• Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Deliverance

The list of competition films:

ALBERT'S WINTER
director: Andreas Koefoed
cinematographer: Niels Thastum
country: Denmark
year: 2009

ARSY-VERSY
director: Miro Remo
cinematographer: Jaro Valko
country: Slovakia
year: 2009

CORRIDOR, THE
director: David Procter
cinematographer: David Procter
country: UK
year: 2010

DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY, THE
director: Marcin Koszałka
cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
country: Poland
year: 2010

ERASING THE LINES
director: Maya-Marlangeon Aharoni
cinematographer: Einav Giat
country: Israel
year: 2010

GUANAPE SUR
director: János Richter
cinematographer: Jakob Stark
country: Italy
year: 2010

HOLDING STILL
director: Florian Riegel
cinematographer: Luciano Cervio
country: Germany
year: 2010

HOMELESS
director: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen
cinematographer: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Minka Jakerson
country: Denmark
year: 2010

INHALE EXHALE
director: Jean Counet
cinematographer: Kimmo Jaatinen
country: Belgium, Netherlands, Finland
year: 2010

INVENTORY
director: Paweł Łoziński
cinematographer: Paweł Łoziński
country: Poland
year: 2010

IRON CROWS
director: Bong-Nam Park
cinematographer: Yeon-Taek Seo
country: South Korea
year: 2009

LOVERS
director: Rafał Skalski
cinematographer: Jakub Giza
country: Poland
year: 2009

LAST DAY OF SUMMER, THE
director: Piotr Stasik
cinematographer: Piotr Stasik
country: Poland
year: 2010

MORNING ALWAYS COMES
director: Kari Pettersen
cinematographer: Patrik Säfström
country: Norway
year: 2009

OUT OF LOVE
director: Birgitte Stærmose
cinematographer: Marek Septimus Wieser
country: Denmark
year: 2009

PIECE OF SUMMER, A
director: Marta Minorowicz
cinematographer: Paweł Chorzępa
country: Poland
year: 2010

SPIRIT
director: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring
cinematographer: Adam Gutch
country: UK
year: 2010

SUN COME UP
director: Jennifer Redfearn
cinematographer: Tim Metzger
country: USA
year: 2010

THAT'S LIFE...
director: Daniel Zieliński
cinematographer: Alex Pavlović
country: Poland
year: 2010

TRAFFIC JAM
director: Oskar Forstén, Arthur Franck
cinematographer: Oskar Forstén, Mikael Gustafsson
country: Finland
year: 2009

TRAPICHE
director: Luis Villacís
cinematographer: Luis Villacís
country: Columbia
year: 2009

WAY UP, THE
director: Shirly Berkovitz
cinematographer: Shirly Berkovitz
country: Israel
year: 2009