First held in 1997, Student Etudes Competition<\/strong> supports the development of novice filmmakers and provides unique opportunity to confront cinematic achievements of students from various parts of the world. Each year, a growing number of film schools submit their best etudes for consideration of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE<\/strong> selection committee. The winners are chosen by an international jury of prominent filmmakers and industry professionals.<\/p>\n The author of the best cinematography wins the coveted Laszlo Kovacs Student Award – The Golden Tadpole<\/strong>. Silver<\/strong> and Bronze Tadpoles<\/strong> are awarded for the second and third place respectively. Additionally, Polish Filmmakers Association<\/strong> will award the winner of the Student Etudes Competition<\/strong> a cheque for PLN 10 000<\/span>.<\/p>\n ALL THAT’S LEFT<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Henri returns to see his family after a long absence to visit his mother, who was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. Despite his anxieties, unconsciously transmitted by his mother, Henri decides to get her out of the hospital and take care of her.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Ce qui reste \n BROKEN ROOTS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A family breaks apart. The day Marcos and his little brother have to choose whom of their parents they want to live with, Marcos will try to convince Sergio to go with their Dad. But Sergio doesn\u2019t want to separate from his Mom. The adults\u2019 dispute will also become theirs: divorce doesn\u2019t destroy just a marriage, but a whole family.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Grietas \n CLOWN, THE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We live to find our destination. Or our destination gives us life? Are three minutes enough to discuss this?<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> \u041a\u043b\u043e\u0443\u043d \n DIG<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n When a neighbour\u2019s horse goes missing in their small Appalachian valley, Caleb must cover for his autistic brother Russell.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Jono Seneff \n DRESS, THE Lust, sexuality, and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver who soon becomes the object of her fantasies.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Sukienka \n HOME<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Early in the morning, the air-raid siren goes off. Mother’s darkest thoughts become true. She awakens her young son and hurries, only picking up the outfit that is at hand before running out to protect their lives. In the boy’s room, deathly silence reigns, with no hope that the family will ever return there again.<\/p>\n Directors:<\/strong> Marius Krivi\u010dius, Lina Margaityt\u0117 \n KID AND HIS PANDA, A<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n When a father exhausts his energy entertaining children at work, his son begins to fixate on the costume that transforms him into the agent of other children\u2019s joy.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Sydney Ribot KURA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tola, a young mother and aspiring artist, is working on a children\u2019s book about animal behaviour. Her main inspiration is a domestic hen, which she talks to with help from an internet animal communicator. Things get out of control when her boyfriend tries to sabotage her work, as the animal communicator gets involved with her private live and the hen tries to escape.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Andrzej Brz\u00f3zka \n OFF BEAT<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n An overweight pizza delivery man stumbles upon the world of ballroom dancing. He realises that he will have to overcome his insecurities in order to find intimacy in his life.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Derin Kiyak \n PEARL<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In a desolate Chinese fishing village, a six-year-old girl lives with her younger brother and their single mother, struggling to survive on the brink of poverty. Unbeknownst to the young girl, her mother, an oyster harvester, is given the opportunity to leave her hometown and improve her living situation under one condition: to leave one child behind.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> \u73cd\u73e0 \n POST LOVE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Three elderly women from the west of Ireland rob post offices to move to a romantic paradise and break free from their nursing homes.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Max Barry \n REHEARSAL, THE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A laundromat at night. A woman asks a stranger to try on her husband’s shirt, fearing that it has shrunk. As she asks him to rehearse the reunion between her and her husband, the clumsy rehearsal creates a rapprochement between the two unknowns.<\/p>\n Original title: <\/strong>Wiedersehen RODEO FILM, A<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Averill, a black bull rider living in rural California, is at the top of his game. However, Averill has a few secrets; he\u2019s fallen out of love with the sport and is carrying on a love affair with his brother\u2019s wife, Frankie. He\u2019s living a lie in more ways than one. His brother, once a great bull rider himself, expects Averill to compete and win as the family has always done. When Averill loses his cross, a family heirloom, he takes it as a sign that maybe now is the time for a change.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Darius D. Dawson \n SHABBAT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A romantic meeting of a young Jewish girl and a Pole during a warm summer night in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a \u2013 a modern Polish city that will change for that one night into a city of the past.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Szabat \n SINKING SHIPS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Sara endured many years in a relationship full of control and violence. As she and her family go on vacation, an opportunity to break away suddenly presents itself.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Sinkende Schiffe \n SISTERS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Meabh, a spirited fifteen-year-old, shields her two younger sisters, Lucy and Aine, from the ongoing neglect and abuse they are experiencing in their catholic children\u2019s home by telling them transcendent Irish Fairy Tales. Desperate to protect them, Meabh takes the blame for her sisters\u2019 rule breaking, resulting in severe punishment from the head nun, Sister Joan. Fearful her sisters will be adopted by another family without her, Meabh plots an escape.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> \u00c9t\u00e1in Nash \n STRATUM DEEP<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Robert, a young coal miner, is severely injured yet forced to rescue his father in the accidental collapse of their coal mine. A historical fiction, set in the aftermath of the 1980s miners\u2019 strike.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Lian Meng Rose \n SUMMER SHADE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Gal, a 13-year-old redhead girl, runs away from her older sisters, towards her favourite relaxing summer spot: the magical refreshing pond near her summer house. Except, shortly after her arrival, a group of ultraorthodox Hassidic Jews arrive at the place and violently kick her out.<\/p>\n Director: <\/strong>Shira Haimovici \n ULEG\u0141O\u015a\u0106<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Piotr is a good but unlucky angler, who catches the largest and most disgusting fish at the Millennium Fishing Competition. His life from this moment begins to change for the better, and he begins to see a salutary amulet in the fish that he caught. At the same time, the fish brings apocalyptic destruction to the world and Piotr will have to choose between his own good and his entire island community.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Micha\u0142 Ciechomski \n VERDICT IN THE CASE OF K., THE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SFP_eng.jpg\")
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\n Director: <\/strong>Hugo Salvaire
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Guillaume Epars
\n School:<\/strong> Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Belgium, 2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director:<\/strong> Alberto Gross
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Alan Douglas
\n School:<\/strong> Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Spain, 2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director:<\/strong> Vladimir Feklenko
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Victor Gusarov
\n School:<\/strong> High Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors (HSCF)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Russia, 2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Bash Achkar
\n School:<\/strong> School of Cinematic Arts at University of Southern California (USC)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2019<\/p>\n
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\n Director:<\/strong> Tadeusz \u0141ysiak
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Konrad Bloch
\n School:<\/strong> Warsaw Film School
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographers:<\/strong> Marius Krivi\u010dius, Lina Margaityt\u0117
\n School:<\/strong> Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (LMTA)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Lithuania, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Azariah Bj\u00f8rvig
\n School:<\/strong> American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Kasper Lorek
\n School:<\/strong> \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Saad Yousuf
\n School:<\/strong> Boston University College of Communication
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director: <\/strong>Yuchao Feng
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Lasse Ulvedal Tolb\u00f8ll
\n School:<\/strong> Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Film and TV at New York University (NYU)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> China, USA, 2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Tiernan O’Rourke
\n School:<\/strong> National Film School (NFS) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Ireland, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director:<\/strong> Kevin Biele
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Leon Emonds-Pool
\n Sschool:<\/strong> Internationale Filmschule K\u00f6ln (IFS)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Germany, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Erin G. Wesley
\n School:<\/strong> American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director:<\/strong> David Bajerski, Damian Kosowski
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> David Bajerski
\n School:<\/strong> \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Director:<\/strong> Andreas Kessler
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Leonard Frederic Caspari
\n School:<\/strong> Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Germany, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Andrew Khew
\n School:<\/strong> National Film School (NFS) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Ireland, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Nathalie Pitters
\n School:<\/strong> National Film and Television School (NFTS)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Wielka Brytania, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer: <\/strong>Tamas Apor Meder
\n School:<\/strong> London Film School (LFS)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Israel, UK, 2020<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Pawe\u0142 Grabarek
\n School:<\/strong> Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski Film School
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2020<\/p>\n