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  • The 16th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition

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    Frederic Chopin Piano Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious music competitions in the world. It is also among the group of few monographic piano competitions dedicated to the musical performance of one composer. It will be held in Warsaw, from 2 through 23 October 2010.

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Polish Berlin Wall doc gets Oscar nomination

 

Rabbit

Directed by Bartek Konopka, Rabbit a la Berlin tells the story of thousands of wild rabbits which inhabited the so-called ‘death zone’ of the Berlin Wall – a strip of land between two walls full of fresh grass and ideal for the animals. For years the rabbits lived there, the guards of the Wall keeping them safe.

“The film is an allegory presenting the history of Eastern Europe from a rabbit’s perspective,” said TVP spokeswoman, Aleksandra Biernacka, from TVP’s division of film festivals.

 

Other nominees for Oscar in Short Documentary category include: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province about children killed in an earthquake in China in 2008, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardnerabout the legalization of assisted suicide, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, about unemployment, and Music by Prudence, about disabled Zimbabwean singer.

Film critic Andrzej Kołodynski, editor of the monthly Kino, told Polish Radio Information Agency IAR that Rabbit à la Berlin stands a great chance to win an Oscar. “It is a unique, thought-provoking film which shows a certain political situation in Europe in a brilliant and intelligent way,” he said.

The winner of 2010 Academy Awards will be announced on 7 March.

 

Source: Polish Radio

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