28 June 2013 Birthday Film Screening

To celebrate Wisława Szymborska’s 90th anniversary of her birth, which is this Tuesday (the 2nd of July), the Wisława Szymborska Foundation has organised competition entitled Wolę kino [I Prefer Cinema] for a short film about her poetry. A jury, which included: Michał Rusinek, Tadeusz Sobolewski and Maciej Starczewski chose a winner and nine finalists out of over 50 entries. A screening of all the awarded films is planned for the Nobel Prize winner’s birthday – the 2nd of July at 5 p.m. in Krakow’s Kino Pod Baranami.

A complete list of contestants and shots from the films may be viewed at the Foundation’s Facebook profile.

Everyone interested in participation in the screening should phone at: 789 368 861.

The competition’s organising body: The Wisława Szymborska Foundation and Kino Pod Baranami.