The researchers of the Polish Society for Aesthetics Prof. Aleksandra Lukaszewicz and Prof. Karina Banaszkiewicz-Sadowska, had the honor to be invited to participate in the Jury and The Organizing Committee of the LAMPART Short Film Festival, which finale will be held in early March 2025.
This unique film festival, launched in 2023 by Polish researchers, artists, and filmmakers from the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland, is geared towards empowering and inspiring emerging filmmakers in the coastal region of Kenya.
It is organized by the Technical University of Mombasa in collaboration with the Kenya Film Commission, Alliance Francaise in Mombasa, Mombasa Film Makers Association, The Polish Society for Aesthetics, University of Silesia and the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland, holding honorary patronage from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi.
The participation of the researchers from the Polish Society for Aesthetics in the LAMPART Short Film Festival in Mombasa 2025 will inscribe itself to the continuation of the tradition of Polish-Kenyan collaboration in the field of learning the art of filmmaking, fostering a rapprochement of the cultures of Poland and Kenya.
The invitation of the researchers from the Polish Society for Aesthetics to participate in the LAMPART Short Film Festival in Mombasa 2025 was preceded by the visit of Prof. Karina Banaszkiewicz-Sadowska at the Technical University of Mombasa on the 8th of November 2024 during her research stay in Kenya. This allowed her to discuss various further collaborations between the Technical University of Mombasa and the Polish Society for Aesthetics acting in the CAPHE project, and the University of Silesia, broadening the scope of outreach of the CAPHE project and its long-standing results.
During the LAMPART Short Film Festival in Mombasa 2025, researchers from the Polish Society for Aesthetics will realize workshops and training programs in the field of 360 filming and presentation through VR headsets, introducing new technologies to the young generation of Kenyan filmmakers. They will also organize the screenings of the films by Jacob Barua of Polish-Kenyan origin and one of the first Kenyan filmmakers) trained in the Film School in Lodz, thus underlining the contribution of the hybrid background to the creation of inclusive spaces of creation and dialogue.