Gdynia Film Festival
The Gdynia Film Festival (Polish Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych ) returns year after year an overview of the filmmaking of Polish cinema. The first film festival was organized in 1974 and was held until 1986 in Gdansk. Since 1986 the Music Theatre in Gdynia seat of the festival, which takes place each year in September. It will be shown at the festival the best Polish feature films that have arisen since the end of the previous festivals. So an important marketplace for Polish films has been created that will also boost the International Sale of movies. Numerous guests of the international film festivals here are the reason the films for the competition the following year. So the organizers of the Berlinale constant guest of the festival. A jury awards at the end of the festival various prizes. First prize is the Golden Lion. Artistic director of the festival since 2006 Miroslaw Bork.