Festival

The Ale Kino! Festival presents valuable and artistically impressive films attractive to young audiences, who often have no access to contemporary films for children and young people. The Festival offers a unique opportunity for adult audiences to see films mostly unavailable in Polish cinemas: foreign films made for children and about children. The Festival is also a meeting place and discussion forum for film artists, critics, theorists, producers, distributors, pedagogues and young viewers.

The following persons will be invited to the Honorary Committee of the Festival: Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski - the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Ryszard Grobelny - the Mayor of the City of Poznań, Agnieszka Odorowicz - The General Director of the Polish Film Institute and Jacek Bromski - the President of the Association of Polish Filmmakers.

The Director of the Festival is Jerzy Moszkowicz, the director of the Children's Art Centre in Poznań.

The Festival will feature screenings of competition films, special screenings and fringe events. Key rules and procedures concerning the Festival are included in the regulations drafted by the organisers.

The main award of the Festival is the Golden Goats for the best live-action film and for the best animated film.

Competition screenings will present Polish and foreign films, both action-live and animated ones, produced in the years 2004-2006. They will be judged by an international jury, which will then present the following statutory awards: the Golden, Silver and Bronze Goats for live-action films, and the Golden, Silver and Bronze Goats for animated films. The same jury will award the prize of the International Centre of Films for Children and Young People CIFEJ. Children's jury and young viewers will also award Marcinek and Marcin prizes for the best films for children and for young viewers, respectively.

A special prize, the Platinum Goats, will be awarded for an outstanding film or audiovisual media output for young audiences. The prize will be awarded by the organisers of the Festival.

The Festival will host artists and producers of the presented films, as well as other representatives of the film world and Polish and foreign audiovisual media.

The main publication of the Festival, a bilingual catalogue, will contain all details of the presented films and their makers. A teacher's guide Ale Kino! w szkole (Ale Kino! At School) full of teaching tips for pedagogues will also be published. In addition, a poster and an information folder will be printed.
 

The International Young Audience Film Festival is the only event of its kind in Poland. It has a tradition of nearly forty years. It originated from local festivals of animated films and films for children organised in Poznań in the 1960s. From 1969 a countrywide festival was organised there every two years. In 1994 the festival underwent major changes, achieved international status and since that time it has been organised every year. It has enabled Polish cinemagoers to see unknown but valuable and attractive movies from many different countries.

Prizewinners, jurors and guests of the Festival include Filip Bajon, Yurek Bogayevicz, Jacek Bromski, Krzesimir Dębski, Piotr Dumała, Waldemar Dziki, Katarzyna Figura, Małgorzata Foremniak, Leszek Gałysz, Witold Giersz, Robert Gliński, Krzysztof Gradowski, Roman Gutek, Stanisław Jędryka, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Maria Kaniewska, Andrzej Kołodyński, Zygmunt Konieczny, Aleksandra Korejwo, Krystyna Krupska-Wysocka, Jerzy Kucia, Stanisław Lenartowicz, Piotr Łazarkiewicz, Paweł Łoziński, Jan Machulski, Andrzej Maleszka, Wojciech Marczewski, Lechosław Marszałek, Janusz Nasfeter, Władysław Nehrebecki, Małgorzata Pieczyńska, Radosław Piwowarski, Jerzy Satanowski, Małgorzata Seck, Anna Sokołowska, Danuta Stenka, Waldemar Szarek, Daniel Szczechura, Stefan Szwakopf, Kazimierz Tarnas, Maciej Wojtyszko, Jarosław Żamojda.

The Festival hosted also many foreign guests: makers of the presented films from all over the world, representatives of film institutions and directors of children's films festivals in Montreal, Mexico City, Chicago, Frankfurt, Bratislava, Oulu, Bellinzona, London, Berlin.