6th Warsaw Film Week
May 15, 2008
5-15.10.1990
cinemas: Skarpa, Relax, Atlantic, Bajka
number of admissions: no data available
Audience Award Winner: "Dead Poets` Society" by Peter Weir, USA
Beginning of the new era – also in film business. US majors enter Polish market: first Warner Bros. (then represented by ITI), followed by Columbia, Fox and Disney (all three then represented by Syrena), and U.I.P. (then represented by Europol).
The first gala opening of the festival with “Roselyne and Lions” by Jean-Jacques Beneix.
A big presentation of French cinema, prepared by Paris-based Joanna Orzechowska-Bel.
Beginning of collaboration with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A close collaboration with The British Council commnces – Ms Iwona Lukijaniuk (BC Films Officer) becomes one of the main partners of the festival.
Beginning of the British Airways sponsorship and the media partnership with Gazeta Wyborcza.
The British Airways commercial is the first one we present before the festival screenings. The audience appreciates it so much, that some people vote for it as the best film of the festival.
Among guests are: Marion Häensel ("Il Maestro"), Thaddeus O`Sullivan ("December Bride"), and Zelimir Zilnik ("That`s How The Steel Was Tempered ").
We show two Polish feature debuts: “Burial Of Potato” by Jan Jakub Kolski and "Seszele" (Seychelles) by Bogusław Linda.
