Olena
A couple of young Ukrainians, Olena and Dima, is travelling through Poland to Sweden. Unfortunately, their wallet is stolen on the train and during a fight, the thieves throw it on the railway. They have to find it before the ferry leaves.
2013 | Feature film directed by Elżbieta Benkowska
Selection for the SouthSide Film Festival in Pennsylvania
The SouthSide Film Festival is an annual non-competitive, not-for-profit film festival that takes place each June in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in USA.
http://southsidefilmfestival.com/?page_id=438
Screening at the 8. KINOPOLIS Polish Film Festival in Dublin
KINOPOLIS - Polish Film Festival in Dublin, which launched in 2006, aims to promote Polish cinema in Ireland. The idea behind the project is to bring the culture of one of the largest minorities living on the island – through their films.
http://kinopolis.com.pl/index.php?action=page&lng=pl&page=3
Selection for the Student Etudes Panorama at the Camerimage Film Festival
The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE is the greatest and most recognized festival dedicated to the art of cinematography and its creators - cinematographers. CAMERIMAGE contributes to the growth of cinematographers' prestige. The unconventional format of the Festival, which awards films according to their visual, aesthetic and technical values, has turned out to be an alternative for traditional film festivals.
http://www.camerimage.pl/onas.php
Screening at the 29. Warsaw Film Festival
The film was screened in the Polish Shorts Panorama section. Warsaw Film Festival presents both Polish and foreign films. In 2009 the Warsaw Film Festival became one of 14 events recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (www.fiapf.org) as international film festivals.
http://www.wff.pl/pl/o-festiwalu/
Award for the best film in the World Shorts & Short Anima International Competition at the Sopot Film Festival 2013
Sopot Film Festival presents a cross section of world cinema, the latest and most interesting full-length productions and also world-class film returns to cinema history. Movies that flitted through the halls of cinema and those who never were in the official distribution.
Selection for the 26. Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy
Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy was first organised in 1988. The aim of Finland’s biggest film festival is to promote the artistry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films.
Selection for the World Shorts & Short Anima International Competition at the Sopot Film Festival 2013
Sopot Film Festival presents a cross section of world cinema, the latest and most interesting full-length productions and also world-class film returns to cinema history. Movies that flitted through the halls of cinema and those who never were in the official distribution.
Selection for the “Some like it short and serious” competition at the 7th Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Two Riversides Festival is an important event in the Polish cultural calendar, co-hosted by Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec, two cities situated on the opposite banks of the Vistula River.
During the Two Riversides Festival you can watch Polish and foreign movies which were awarded prizes in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Karlove Vary, San Sebastian, and Rotterdam, see spectacles and exhibitions inspired by the world of the moving picture, meet famous filmmakers and share your thoughts about with like-minded friends from all over the world.
http://www.dwabrzegi.pl/
Selection for the Main Competition at the Kameralne Lato Film Festival 2013
Kameralne Lato Film Festival has been organised since 2007. It includes film workshops, screenings of young cinema and classics, lectures conducted by the professional and numerous discussion panels and concerts.
Selection for the Polish Shorts Competition at the 13. International Film Festival T-mobile New Horizons
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival presents uncompromising, innovative and original cinema from all over the world that explores new horizons in film language, expression and storytelling.
Selection for the competition for the short film debut at the 32. Koszalin Debut Film Festival “Young and Cinema”
Koszalin Debut Film Festival “Young and Cinema” is the biggest Polish film festival to present young Polish cinema: full-length cinema and TV film debuts as well as short films – animations, documentary and feature films.
“Olena” competes for Short Film Golden Palm Award!
“Olena”, a short feature directed by Elżbieta Benkowska, will compete in the main short film competition at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
“Olena” is Benkowska’s diploma film for the Gdynia Film School and the first short feature production made in Poland to compete at IFF in Cannes for Short Film Palme d’Or. It is the sole CEE film from the nine films in competition and was chosen out of 3,500 submissions from 132 countries.
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/59658.html
The SouthSide Film Festival is an annual non-competitive, not-for-profit film festival that takes place each June in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in USA.
http://southsidefilmfestival.com/?page_id=438
Screening at the 8. KINOPOLIS Polish Film Festival in Dublin
KINOPOLIS - Polish Film Festival in Dublin, which launched in 2006, aims to promote Polish cinema in Ireland. The idea behind the project is to bring the culture of one of the largest minorities living on the island – through their films.
http://kinopolis.com.pl/index.php?action=page&lng=pl&page=3
Selection for the Student Etudes Panorama at the Camerimage Film Festival
The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE is the greatest and most recognized festival dedicated to the art of cinematography and its creators - cinematographers. CAMERIMAGE contributes to the growth of cinematographers' prestige. The unconventional format of the Festival, which awards films according to their visual, aesthetic and technical values, has turned out to be an alternative for traditional film festivals.
http://www.camerimage.pl/onas.php
Screening at the 29. Warsaw Film Festival
The film was screened in the Polish Shorts Panorama section. Warsaw Film Festival presents both Polish and foreign films. In 2009 the Warsaw Film Festival became one of 14 events recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (www.fiapf.org) as international film festivals.
http://www.wff.pl/pl/o-festiwalu/
Award for the best film in the World Shorts & Short Anima International Competition at the Sopot Film Festival 2013
Sopot Film Festival presents a cross section of world cinema, the latest and most interesting full-length productions and also world-class film returns to cinema history. Movies that flitted through the halls of cinema and those who never were in the official distribution.
Selection for the 26. Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy
Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy was first organised in 1988. The aim of Finland’s biggest film festival is to promote the artistry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films.
Selection for the World Shorts & Short Anima International Competition at the Sopot Film Festival 2013
Sopot Film Festival presents a cross section of world cinema, the latest and most interesting full-length productions and also world-class film returns to cinema history. Movies that flitted through the halls of cinema and those who never were in the official distribution.
Selection for the “Some like it short and serious” competition at the 7th Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Two Riversides Festival is an important event in the Polish cultural calendar, co-hosted by Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec, two cities situated on the opposite banks of the Vistula River.
During the Two Riversides Festival you can watch Polish and foreign movies which were awarded prizes in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Karlove Vary, San Sebastian, and Rotterdam, see spectacles and exhibitions inspired by the world of the moving picture, meet famous filmmakers and share your thoughts about with like-minded friends from all over the world.
http://www.dwabrzegi.pl/
Selection for the Main Competition at the Kameralne Lato Film Festival 2013
Kameralne Lato Film Festival has been organised since 2007. It includes film workshops, screenings of young cinema and classics, lectures conducted by the professional and numerous discussion panels and concerts.
Selection for the Polish Shorts Competition at the 13. International Film Festival T-mobile New Horizons
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival presents uncompromising, innovative and original cinema from all over the world that explores new horizons in film language, expression and storytelling.
Selection for the competition for the short film debut at the 32. Koszalin Debut Film Festival “Young and Cinema”
Koszalin Debut Film Festival “Young and Cinema” is the biggest Polish film festival to present young Polish cinema: full-length cinema and TV film debuts as well as short films – animations, documentary and feature films.
“Olena” competes for Short Film Golden Palm Award!
“Olena”, a short feature directed by Elżbieta Benkowska, will compete in the main short film competition at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
“Olena” is Benkowska’s diploma film for the Gdynia Film School and the first short feature production made in Poland to compete at IFF in Cannes for Short Film Palme d’Or. It is the sole CEE film from the nine films in competition and was chosen out of 3,500 submissions from 132 countries.
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/59658.html
