On the festival programme are five new Polish feature films and four animated shorts.
The festival will open with the bittersweet comedy Preserve (Rezerwat) by director Lukasz Palkowski. The screening will be attended by the film's star and co-writer, 29-year-old Marcin Kwasny, who had an important role in Hungarian director Bertalan Bagó's Hunting For Englishmen (2006).
Tricks (Sztuczki), by director Adrzei Jakimowski, won two awards last year in Venice: the Laterna Magica and the Label Europa Cinemas prizes. The director's second film follows a girl and her little brother as they search for their father.
Director Lech Majewski's film Glass Lips (Szklane usta) tells the story of a young poet in a psychiatry ward with no words, just music and sound. Majewski, who currently lives in Venice, will meet Budapest audiences on May 9 and 10.
In Extras (Statyci), from 2006, Chinese filmmakers shooting a film in a small Polish town, look for extras. Ladies (Lejdis), released this year, looks at four independent young women as they deal with love, relationships and the opposite sex.
Detailed festival programme:
May 8 7pm, Preserve (Rezerwat), with an introduction by Marcin Kwasny
May 9 7pm, Splinter (Drzazga) - animation, Tricks (Sztuczki)
9pm, Alter ego - animation, Glass Lips (Szklane usta), with an introduction by Lech Majewski
May 10 Life Line (Linia Zycia) - animation, Ladies (Lejdis)
May 11 Ark (Arka) - animation, Extras (Statyci)
