52ème édition

Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. During 7 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open air screenings and meetings with the filmmakers. Every year Krakow Film Festival hosts about 500 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, film festival programmers and numerous audience from Krakow.

Krakow Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Poland, organized every year since 1961 as the national short film competition, later also an international one and finally only international, made a successful comeback as a double-barreled event once again in 1997.
In order to simplify the operation of the Festival as well as the overly complex numbering, we have decided to inaugurate in 2001 both competitions under a common name: Krakow Film Festival. The Krakow Short Film Festival is among Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. [...]

The fact that the Krakow Film Festival has been officially recognized by FIAPF, the European Film Academy and the AMPAS only confirms its reputation and high esteem it's field in; consequently, the films awarded at Krakow are automatically eligible for the European Film Awards and the Oscars in the short films categories.


Jury:

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 2012

Jacek Bławut - Chairman (Poland)
Luciano Barisone (Switzerland)
Truls Lie (Norway)
Peter Torbiörnsson (Sweden)
Hedva Goldschmidt (Israel)

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION 2012

Marcel Łoziński - Chairman (Poland)
Kaveh Tehrani (Norway)
Alessandro Marcionni (Switzerland)
Torene Svitil (USA)
Oxana Cherkasova (Russia)

NATIONAL COMPETITION 2012
Michał Kwieciński - Chairman
Magnus von Horn (Poland/Sweden)
Tomasz Wolski
Marcin Giżycki
Tomasz Sikora

JURY OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI)

Katia Bayer, Belgium - "Format Court" (daily)
Giovanni Ottone, Italy - "Osservatorio Brasile" (weekly)
Miroslaw Przylipiak, Poland - "Kino" (monthly)

JURY OF THE FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DES CINÉ-CLUBS (FICC)

Sankar Kumar Pal, India
Veit Geldner, Germany
Szymon Stemplewski, Poland

STUDENT JURY

International Short Film Competition:
Mateusz Góra
Artur Zaborski
Lucyna Adamska

International Documentary Competition:
Paulina Haratyk
Karolina Stankiewicz
Krzysztof Siwoń

National Competition:
Roman Husarski
Ewelina Leszczyńska
Barbara Rusinek