News

Unfortunately, the Festival is over, the next edition will come next year. Meanwhile, here are the official verdicts:

• The "Blind Invitation for the next Festival edition" Audience Award was granted to Dora Bouzkova
• "A Hundred for the Point" award funded by the volunteers of "Laboratory of Sound" Electronic Orchestra was granted to Białystok Puppet Theatre for the "ONY"spectacle

International Jury composed of Joanna Braun (Head of the Jury), Anurupa Roy and David Zuazola decided:
• not to award the Grand Prix

to award the following prizes:
• "Expressing the Life with a Puppet" for the best animation in "The Noose" - Merlin Puppet Theatre
• "Expressing the Theatre with an Idea of a Puppet" - "Unstable Air" Laurent Bigot
• "Expressing the Theatre with a Puppet" for the best staging and directing - "ONY" Białystok Puppet Theatre

General and Artistic Director of the Festial, Marek Chodaczyński, granted two "Miraculous Moment" awards for a beautiful moment of animation to:
• Dora Bouzkova for putting uncle Beanpole's (Dryblas) leg one on another in "The Stories of the Little Lupitina González" spectacle
• Marek Żurawski for shrugging the shoulders of the puppet in the announcement of the second "The Stories of the Little Lupitina González" spectacle

Due to the illness of the actress, on Sunday, October 13, instead of the Toporland spectacle, we will be playing Options for Life according to prof. Leszek Kołakowski.

We hereby rush to inform you that the planned Author's meeting with Ms Honorata Sych, promoting the album "Wszystkie Nasze Lalki" due to random reasons (disease), it will take place on October 10 at 7.30pm at the Theatre Institute instead of the October 5 at the KADR Culture Center as planned.

We apologize for the change.

We would like to inform you that all tickets for the "Ony" spectacle on October 12 at 8.00 pm have already been booked.

With undisguised joy but with a bit of sadness as well, we would like to inform that all places for the performances: "Moc" on October 6 at 6 pm and "Wound Deer" have already been booked.

We would like to inform you that all places for the performances: "Power" (Moč) on October 6 at 3 pm have already been booked.

Tickets for performances "Wounded Deer" (Zraniony jeleń) on October 6 and The Noose (Die Schlinge) on October 8 are also running out.

We are very sorry to inform you that for objective reasons we will not be able to present you "The Rite of Spring" ballet of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (Slovenia).

We hope to host the show at next year's edition of our Festival.

Rules for booking tickets:

• in order to make a reservation please send an e-mail with performance's title, your first and last name and number of tickets you would like to receive to rezerwacje@lalkatezczlowiek.eu and wait for an e-mail confirmation.
• you can collect your tickets an hour before the performance but not later than half an hour before. Please do not leave your booking pickup at the last minute.
• a half an hour before the performance the booking list is being erased and all remaining tickets are being handed to people, who haven't made reservations (according to their position in the line).
• please book wisely as there's no possibility to make further changes in reservations.

We are proud to present the program of the 14^th edition of the International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too"

Admission to all Festival events is free

2019 programme (pl)

In order to apply download and fill the following form in and send it to marek.zurawski@lalkatezczlowiek.eu:

Entry form

We are very pleased to present the poster of the 14^th edition of the International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults. The poster's authoress is Anna Oliwa.