Cracow 2007

"Printed Rainbow"

For its 47th editon, the Cracow Film Festival, the oldest festival in Poland, introduced a new competitive section presenting feature-length international documentaries in addition to the well know competition of international short films and other specialities such as music clips and a national competition giving a overview of the Polish production in these fields. For the second time the festival also offered a film market. Renowned filmmakers started here their careers, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Fidyk and Marcel Łoziński; also animation film directors debuted in Cracow, as for example Zbigniew Rybczyński, winner of the Academy Award for his film Tango. This year Indian filmmaker Gitanjali Rao won the Critic's Prize for her second short film Printed Rainbow.

Festival (May 31 — June 5, 2007): www.kff.com.pl
Details of the FIPRESCI prize

Reports:
An Animated Alternative to Life. Nadezhda Marinchevska is impressed by the gentle story about everyday life and nostalgic dreams, death and imagination, solitude and mystical longing in the Indian short Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao.
Let's Talk about Death. Death was a strongly represented in the short film programs and those films appeal through individual, concrete death, where the act of witnessing compels the viewer to painful compassion, rather than contemplative debate, states Barbara Kosecka.
True Short Films. When is a short film a distinct work of art? Thomas Rothschild draws the line.