Kraków Film Festival

{{Infobox film festival

| name = Kraków Film Festival

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| image = Krakow Film Festival 2011, banners, Main Market Square, Krakow, Poland.jpg

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| founded = {{start date and age|1961|df=yes}}

| location = Kraków, Poland

| language = International

| website = [http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/ Kraków Film Festival]

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The Krakow Film Festival ({{langx|pl|Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy}}) is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. {{cite web|url=http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/o_festiwalu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530054811/http://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/o_festiwalu |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 30, 2009 |title=Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy |publisher=www.krakowfilmfestival.pl |access-date=May 27, 2013 |format=Internet Archive }}

It is one of the only five FIAPF accredited documentary and short film festivals in the world.https://fiapf.org/festivals/accredited-festivals/documentary-and-short-film-festivals/

Kraków Film Festival has been organised every year since 1961. The Artistic President of the festival is {{Interlanguage link multi|Krzysztof Gierat|pl}}.

It was in Kraków that Polish filmmakers such as Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski, {{Interlanguage link multi|Bogdan Dziworski|pl}}, and Marcel Łoziński began their career. It was also here that the directors of animated films, including {{Interlanguage link multi|Ryszard Czekała|pl}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Jerzy Kucia|pl}}, Julian Antonisz (Antoniszczak), Piotr Dumała, and Zbigniew Rybczyński, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the film Tango, made their debut.

Yet, such renowned documentary and animated filmmakers were not the only ones to participate and win prizes in Kraków, for the international festival laureates included also numerous artists who made their names as feature film directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Zoltán Huszárik, Jaromil Jireš, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Mike Leigh, and the recent Oscar laureate, Jan Svěrák.

Since 1998, the Festival grants an international life achievement award called the "Dragon of Dragons". Its first laureate was Polish documentary maker {{Interlanguage link multi|Bohdan Kosiński|pl}}.