Chairman of the jury - Piotr Głowacki Piotr Głowacki – born in 1980 in Torun. He graduated from the National Academy of Theater Arts in Cracow. He studied law at the Nicolaus Copernicus University and took classes at the Acting Studio at the Stefan Jaracz Theater in Olsztyn and later studied at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He began his acting career in 200...

European Film Festival Integration You and Me will be present in the European Court of Auditors. The exhibition of best photos from the PhotoConfrontations, organized under direction of Wojciech Szwej in frames of the Festival, will be presented from 22nd November till 22nd December 2021 in the Tribunal's headquater in Luxemburg.

They know the taste of victory as well as the hardships of everyday life. Special guests of the festival are three fantastic athletes. Talented young people have been visiting primary and secondary schools in Koszalin. Every meeting is hosted by journalist and sports commentator Krzysztof Głombowicz. 

18. European Film Festival Integration You and Me has been officially open. At the beginning, "Recepta", a theatre group from Kowalki performed on a square outside Public Library.

  One of the events which will take place during 18. European Film Festival „Integration You and Me” is an academic conference „Culture and disability. Reception – Involvement – Therapy”.  

  Although the pandemic was in full swing last year, filmmakers did not waste any time. Over 2000 films have been submitted for 18th European Film Festival Integration You and Me.

We are honoured to announce that we’re opening a film selection to the main contest of 18th European Film Festival Integration You and Me. We’re waiting for the applications till 1st May 2021.

The second day of the Festival began seemingly like every year. At 9.30 a.m. we started contest film screenings in Alternatywa cinema. We are glad that the audience had an opportunity to come to Koszalin Public Library, watch the films and vote in the audience contest.

During the 17th EFF Integration You and Me we will see a painting exhibition by Marcin Mariak, an artist with disabilities from Białogard. The title of the exhibition is 'Virgin Mary in Parts' and it will be shown in Galeria Region.

Due to the situation concerning the pandemic and bearing your safety in mind we have no choice but to change the formula of this year’s edition of the festival and we need to comply with the sanitary restrictions.

Similarly to last years this year’s 17th edition of the Festival will be accompanied by film screenings in art rooms around Poland on 4th and 5th November. We would like to invite everyone to 16 cities and towns around Poland for a meeting with seven contest films.

Small Festivals You and Me are the screenings of the chosen Festival films and lots of accompanying artistic events. It is also an occasion to activate local people with disabilities. This year almost 30 towns and cities around Poland have expressed their willingness to organise Small Festivals You and Me.

We are inviting everybody to join our integrative team of volunteers. Lots of valuable experiences are awaiting you!

 Integration Film Academy couldn't be held live. However, nothing is lost. We would like to invite everyone to 12 meetings online which will be led by Łukasz Maciejewski.

This year European Film Festival Integration You and Me will be held between 3rd and 7th November. Coronavarius SARS-COV-2 has disrupted plans of great, big, small, local, national and international events. Bearing health and safety of the Festival's guests and participants in our minds we have decided to postpone it hoping that in November we will meet in a good, healthy atmosphere with our Festi...

We are honoured to announce that we’re opening a film selection to the main contest of 17th European Film Festival Integration You and Me. We’re waiting for the applications till 1st May 2020.

  Learn about the laureates of this year's Butterflies awarded by the jury, the youth jury and the audience.    

  Jowita Budnik, Marzena Trybała, Małgorzata Sobieszczańska, Petro Aleksowski and the chair person Piotr Wereśniak – the film contest jury photographed by Wojciech Szwej.  

We are reminding: today at 7.45 p.m. in the Festival’s Centre there will be a meeting with Robert Więckiewicz, it will be moderated by Łukasz Maciejewski. Afterwards - a non-contest screening of ‘A Cat with a Dog’ by Janusz Kondratiuk

We’re starting the first day of 16th EFF Integration You and Me! Our guests are already coming and we are waiting at 5 p.m. at Polonia Square 1 (Koszalin Public Library).

We encourage to take part in a photo contest as part of 16th EFF Integration You and Me organised with our partner Lotto. You may win a weekend in HAVET Hotel Resort & Spa ***** Dźwirzyno.

It’s official - we’re starting on 3rd September! Barbara Jaroszyk - the Festival’s director, Dariusz Pawlikowski - programme director and Dorota Czech talked about amazing films and events that we’ve prepared for you this year. The invitation to the Festival was presented by Przemysław Krzyżanowski, Koszalin vice-President.

  Similarly to last year’s edition, photographers invited to participate in the project have visited their models in Szczecin – Mariusz Król, Chełmno – Wojciech Szwej and Kielce – Stanisław Składanowski.  

  We are adding six fantastic special screenings to 38 contest films. Two out of them are Polish box office hits.  

  Our fifth and the last jury member is a wonderful actress - Jowita Budnik  

Marzena Trybała - a fantastic film and theatre actress - she is the next jury member of the 16th EFF Integration You and Me who will decide who to award with Butterflies 2019.

We are presenting the first jury member who will determine the laureate of Butterflies 2019 during the 16th European Film Festival Integration You and Me. It is Małgorzata Sobieszczańska, a writer and a screenwriter.

We’re presenting a poster promoting the 16th European Film Festival Integration You and Me.  

Photo Confrontations is one of the most important projects of EFF Integration You and Me. Its aim is to face the topic of disability through a meeting of unique models and fantastic photographers. The first edition was organised in 2015, the following ones take place every year. Models, sportspeople, war veterans, travelers and bloggers have stood in front of the cameras so far. Who will this year...

This year we have received 2210 applications to our film contest.

5th March 2019, on the invitation from MEP Marek Plura, European Film Festival Integration You and Me will present a film review and an exhibition of photos from PhotoConfrontations in European Parliament in Brussels. Feel free to join us!

3rd December is a special day for us as we celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities. 3rd December was proclaimed International Day of Persons with Disabilities by the United Nations in 1992.

A great success of our Festival! On 27th September at an Ice-Breaker 2018 gala in the Royal Castle in Warsaw we received a distinction in a Super Ice-Breaker category!

  On 29th August in Koszalin Public Library there was organised a press conference concerning a jubilee edition of the Festival.  It was attended by: the president of Koszalin Piotr Jedliński, the director of the Festival Barbara Jaroszyk, the programme director Dariusz Pawlikowski and the promotion manager Dorota Czech. We would like to thank the media and we count on their active participation duri...

We are happy to announce tha 15. Euopean Film Festival "Integracja Ty i Ja" will be held grom 4 to 8 of September. We will show in this year 34 movies in competition. Films are from all over the world. We are planning a lot of accompanying events like concerts, meetings, science conferences, exhibitions and many more. "Integration You and Me" is a festival of people with disabilities. More info an...

We are happy to announce that our Festival will be presented in the European Parliament in Brussels for the 5th time. On 6th December 2017 the review of festival films will acompany the 4th European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities (EPPD). All are most welcome!

We would like to THANK everybody who has contributed to the organisation and support of our Festival. We are immensely grateful and we look forward to further fruitful cooperation. We attach a full list of our partners..

The jury's protocol of 14th European Film Festival i avalaible HERE.

The third day of the Festival has just come to an end. Please take a look at a short press report and photos..

Please take a look at photos presenting the first day of the Festival. LINK

This year Small Festivals you and Me will take place in 31 places between 5th and 9th September. What and where will be presented? HERE

We'd like to invite everybody to street art workshops run by Maciej Mazurkiewicz known also as Druklin. The workshops will take place on Thursday 7th at 11:00. Everybody can create a work of art under the artist's supervision.

On Friday at 11:00 in Centrum Szkolenia Sił Powietrznych im. Romualda Traugutta /Romuald Traugutt Air Force Training Centre/ in Koszalin we will have a chance to experience laser-mania, electronic paintball. Two teams comprising people with disabilities and the able-bodied will compete in wheels. We expect a fantastic show and rivalry.

We'd like to invite everybody to Laughter Yoga Workshops run by Piotr Bielski on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 10.00 a.m.   

Please take a look at the photos from the press conference which took place on 29th August in Koszalin Public Library. 

EFF Integration You and Me was invited to Brussels by Marek Plura – the MP in the European Parliament. On 7th December 2016 EFF Integration You and Me presented a festival film review for the fourth time. The audience, including the European Parliament members watched the Chronicle of the 13th EFF Integration You and Me and 4 short films. During the meeting there were also awarded prizes for the l...

We’ve met for the 12th time in Alternatywa Cinema at Integration Film Academy. This has been the last meeting this year. This time the screenings were watched by the clients of 'Odrodzenie' Centre for People with Special Needs in Koszalin and the students from Sport Schools Complex. We invited Grzegorz Lanzer, Maciej Sochal and Paweł Spisak. The film by Jerzy Jarnas - ‘Olympians’ was watched with...

During this year's tenth meeting of Integration Film Academy the viewers came to watch Dziewczyna z szafy /The Girl From The Wardrobe/ (by Bodo Kox). The film was presented with audio description.

On 7th October 2016, on the Koszalin Non-governmental Organisation Day Koszalin, the Social-Cultural Society of Koszalin received the Koszalin NGO 2016 Leader title for 12th European Film Festival Integration You and Me in 2015.

The 13th edition of European Film Festival Integration You and Me has just finished. Like always it has been successful owing to a number of people and institutions. Please accept our sincere thanks!

Maciej Sochal, an athlete from Koszalin and our Festival's friend has won a Gold Medal at Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in club throw. He has scored the result of 33.91 m. We'd all kept our fingers crossed and he's made it! Congratualtions Maciek, you're fantastic!

We already know the laureates of 13th EFF Integration You and Me film contest. The Jury gave Butterflies 2016 in the following categories: amateur, feature and documentary film – in the last category the jury gave three distinctions.

'Film, sport, disability' – this is the title of this year's science conference organised by Koszalin Social-Cultural Association, Koszalin Public Library with Humanistic Department and hosted by Gromada Hotel.

It is today! The official opening of the 13th European Film Festival Integration You and Me. Another meeting with a wonderful art of film and interesting people in a truly integrating atmosphere. We invite you to see the art performances and exhibitions openings at 5.00 p.m. at the front of the Public Library of Koszalin. At 6.00 p.m. the official opening ceremony will start in the festival's tent...

As always we have prepared two music presents for the participants of the Festival. At first Aleksandra Bogucka – a jazz concert with the company of Iwona Reszut. At the end of the Festival a concert of Me Myself And I – a combination of jazz, hip-hop and beat-box.

We're pleased to inform that Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, a fantastic actress, has joined the film contest jury which will award Butterflies 2016. Unfortunately, Magdalena Piekorz had to resign from participation in the Festival due to private reasons.  

Koszalin Social-Cultural Association, Joachim Lelewel Koszalin Public Library, the organisers of 13th EFF Integration You and Me and Humanistic department of Koszalin Technical University invite for a science conference Film – Sport – Disability which will take place on September 8th between 11.00 and 2.15 p.m. in Emerald Room, Gromada Hotel in Koszalin.

In the film contest of the 13th EFF Integration You and Me we will see 38 films: seven feature films, twenty three documentaries and eight amateur films. The contest whose award is Butterfly 2016 has gathered films from Poland, the USA, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Holland and Australia. 

We're glad to inform that 12th EFF Integration You and Me has been nominated to this year's edition of Polish Film Institute Awards in national film event category. The awards will be given for the ninth time this year. Since 2008 the awards have been given to people, institutions, organisations for substantial achievements in generalisation and promotion of the Polish cinematography.

The ninth Integration Film Academy has been organised in Air Force Training Centre in Koszalin. After the screening of Born on the Fourth of July by Oliver Stone there has been a discussion. There have also been invited special guests: the president of The Injured in Missions Abroad Association, the director of Correctional Facility in Koszalin and the head of Culture Board by the president of Kos...

Photo confrontations 2016  have just finished. Now the photos are being edited and they will be exhibited at the Opening Ceremony of this year’s Festival – September 6th. We recommend watching the photo report from backstage.

As The 13th European Film Festival Integration You and Me is getting closer, we would like to invite everyone interested in our film contest to check out the rules and regulation. Our biggest attention and the words of encouragement are directed to all the amateur filmmakers with disabilities, who can compete in the Amateur Film category.

12th European Film Festival Integration You and Me is visiting the European Parlament for the third time. This time the review of festival's films enriches the programme of The ENIL Freedom Drive 2015. Today, 30th September 2015, a few hundreds of The ENIL Freedom Drive 2015 participants and supporters, will take part in the presentation of The EFF Integration You and Me in European Parlament in B...

  Ryszard Bugajski, an outstanding Polish director, screenwriter, writer, the author of ‘Przesłuchanie’ /Interrogration/ – one of the most important Polish film, as well as ‘Układ zamknięty’ /The Closed Circuit/ will be a jury member during 12th EFF Integration You and Me. On Wednesday September 9 the film maker will meet the Festival’s  audience during ‘Discussions without Barriers’. 

At the beginning a dose of good rock by Tomasz Kowalski with FBB band and at the end of the Festival – delicately but with a comparable charisma Monika Kuszyńska. These are the musical guests at 12th EFF Integration You and Me. Both concerts will take place in a Festival’s tent and are free of charge. 

Several dozen films from all over the world will be competing in 12th EFF Integration You and Me contest.

The 11th edition of The European Film Festival „Integration You and Me” has been reviewed in the European Parliament in Brussels. The last one this year, yet the most important post-festival revision was organised in collaboration with Member of the European Paliament Marek Plura. Similar retrospectives took place in several other European countries.

The 11th European Film Festival Integration You and Me have started today with an official inaguration. The members of Jury, along with a large audience, have watched the first film in the contest. The opening performances charmed the spectators. Our festival's Terminal will be open until Saturday 6th September.

For the second time, together with the Youth Diabetes Club of Koszalin, we organize the event called ‘Bike Off Diabetes – Welcome Integration!’. It will take place on the last day of the festival, September 6th. Last year, dozens of participants dressed in blue travelled on their bikes through the main street of the city to manifest their disagreement to life in the shadow of diabetes and to promo...

Rafał Gręźlikowski, Mirosław Pawłowski, Krzysztof Gradaś, Paweł Kiliański – disabled travellers, people with passion, never giving up to limitations. They meet with students in high schools during educational lessons and with the audience in Festival Town. The motto of the meeting says it all: ‘Ahead without Barriers’.

‘Journeys of people with disabilities. Movies' images’ is a series of lectures on the theme of a journey in films about disabilities. They are aimed at students from high schools and people interested in film in general. The lectures will be given by Piotr Szarszewski, film and media expert from Koszalin University of Technology.

The group of guests of this year’s festival Integration You and Me will be joined by unusual Angelika Chrapkiewicz-Gądek. She does not mind the limitations, she just fulfills dreams of others and her own.

This is the official poster for this year’s 11th edition of the European Film Festival Integration You and Me. The author of this project is Magdalena Słowińska and graphics from Agencja Reklamowa VisionPro from Koszalin.

10th European Film Festival "Integration You and Me" will be held between 3rd and 7th September. The main idea of this year’s edition is "Film open art". We will pay attention to the therapeutic role that cinematography may play. The main point of the programme will be a contest for the best films concerning the issue of disability. The films will be evaluated in three categories: feature films, d...