The Ecumenical Jury at the 33rd Warsaw Film Festival awarded its Prize to "Beyond Words" by Urszula Antoniak (Poland, Netherlands, 2017) and a Commendation to "The Miner" by Hanna Slak (Slovenia, Croatia, 2017). The Chinese production "To Kill a Watermelon" by Zehao Gao (Zha gua) won the Prize of the International Jury. The Best Director award went to Joan Chemla for "If You Saw His Heart" (France, 2017). The Prize of the International Film Critics' Jury (Fipresci) for the Best Debut Film from Eastern Europe went to "Nina" (Slovakia, Czechia, 2017) by Juraj Lehotský which was screened in the festival section "Discoveries".
The 33rd International Film Festival Warsaw opened on October 13. An Ecumenical Jury awarded prizes to films from the international competition for the 8th time. The festival has four other competition sections - for first and second films, the "Free Spirit" competition for "innovative, independent and rebellious" films, a documentary and a short film competition. The opening film was "Pewnego razu w listopadzie ..." (Once Upon a Time in November) by Andrzej Jakimowski.
Link: Festival website