Gdansk DocFilm Festival Calling

VII GDAŃSK DOCFILM FESTIVAL (Godność i Praca , Dignity and Work)

23-25.04.2009

We would like to invite all film documentaries to take part in the Seventh Gdansk DocFilm Festival,

which will take place on 23-25 April 2009 in the Tri-City.

If you have in your documentary output films which fit our festival canon, we invite you to participate in the preselection and then in the contest for "The Gate of Freedom". 



Film copy (dvd/beta/35mm) please send to:

VII Gdańsk DocFilm Festiwal

Dignity & Work Godność i Praca

Ul. Wały Piastowskie 24 pok. 513

80-555 Gdańsk

POLAND



Formal notification of the movie follows the completion of specially-prepared application form available on-line on our website.

More information about the Festival ..................



Information about the Festival



Gdansk DocFilm Festival / GDFF / is the only one in the world, mainly thematic festival of documentary films about the working environment, man, human activity, ways to survive in different conditions and situations, creative passions.



GDFF's realized since 2003 a significant undertaking for the culture of cinema. Each year, is gaining in importance and popularity, and its coverage reaches across a wide spectrum deliverers, manufacturers and distributors of documentary films at home and abroad. Matters, the method of transmission, richness and massage diversity extend awareness not only of the working people. Move hearts, sensibiliser, stimulate imagination, inspire and give an opportunity to discuss the current problems of the work world.



Past editions of the Festival have reached this goal. The event is already entered in the international calendar of thematic film festivals.



Each year we receive a very interesting images of the local communities' life, often different culturally and religiously, but with a common human and global dimension of environmental work problems.



The event meets the expectations of film producers, who seek space for presentation of films about work. In this way we fill the theme niche in competitions organized around the world.



We are convinced that Gdansk is a good place to present  films about the dignity of the working man. It is not just a reference to the tradition of August 1980. It is  mainly taking the discussion on current and future visions occurring in work environments not only in Poland but also in Europe.



For six consecutive editions of the Festival was reported nearly 800 films from whole world, and over 180 have fought in the contest for the statuette "The Gate of Freedom". The first edition was held in 2003. Last took place on 24-27 April 2008.



The festival is implemented in cooperation, inter alia, with the Polish Institute of Film Art, University of Gdansk, the Marshal Office of Pomeranian Region, and with the participation of President of Gdansk, founder of the main prize in the competition part.



Each year, Gdansk DocFilm Festival has greater popularity - this year we've been visited by more than 2,000 spectators.



Sincerely, 

Festival Director

Kazimierz Beer