News

2024-11-08

Invitation to participate!

We have the pleasure to invite you to apply to participate in the 19th International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults „Puppet is a Human Too” which will take place from October 10 th – 18 th 2025 in Warsaw.

The invitation is aimed at professional puppeteers as well as students of puppetry art from all over the world.

Participation guidelines:
We invite puppet plays aimed at an adult audience. From the submitted entries, our selectors will choose approximately 8 performances to be presented in the competitive part of the Festival.

Submission deadline: June 24 th 2025

Qualification results will be communicated electronically and published on the Festival website.

We hope to present your show at our Festival.

Please send your completed application to: biuro@uniatn.pl.

Festival's Regulations

Application form

2024-10-12

Verdict

After watching the latest competition performance, verdicts from the audience, "Sound Laboratory" electronic orchestra's volunteers, the President of the Impossible Theatre Union and the Jury of the 18th edition of Puppet is Human too Festival were announced!


The Grand Prix for the best performance for „Expressing the Life with a Puppet” goes to Zero en Conducta (Spain) for the "La Phazz" spectacle - Dance, even acrobatics and the art of puppetry, moving through the action on emotions that are not obvious but familiar. Existential haiku.


Two equal prizes:

The award for „Expressing The Theatre by a Puppet” goes to Loutky bez hranic (Czech Republic) for their spectacle „Emil” - for irony and a modern language that transcends the tradition of puppet animation through fun and emotion. It's getting happier, more absurd and nothing more is needed.

The award for „Expressing the Theatre with a Puppet” goes to Theatre Company Puppet's Lab (Bulgaria) for their spectacle „The Flight of the Mole” - for precise dramaturgy combining refined acting enveloping the puppet theater in growing emotions. It leaves viewers breathless.


Impossible Theatre Union's President's „The Wonderful Animation Moment” award for a beautiful moment of animation goes to Krzysztof Zemło from Teatr Łątek Supraśl (Poland) for a boat in a spectacle „Matecznik”.


The „Audience Award” (open invitation of the awarded performer to the next edition of the Festival) goes to Julia Fidelus for the role in the spectacle "20 DEN".


"Sound Laboratory" electronic orchestra's volunteers' „Hundred for the Point” goes to „La Phazz” Zero en Conducta.


POLUNIMA's honorary diploma is awarded to Teatr Łątek z Supraśla for the spectacle „Matecznik”.

2024-10-12

Mistake in the folder

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Unfortunately, an error appeared in the festival folder.

Today - Saturday, October 12 - the first performance at 5 p.m. is "Stara Planina" by the theater from Kragujevac, which we present at the Theatre Institute ul. Jazdów 1.

The performance "Emil" will be presented at the KADR Cultural Center ul. Rzymowskiego 32 at 18:30.

We are very sorry for the mistake.

2024-09-23

Reservations of free tickets

In order to make a reservation please send an e-mail with performance's or film screening's title, your first and last name and number of tickets you would like to receive to rezerwacje@lalkatezczlowiek.eu.

Please wait for a reply e-mail confirming your reservation - we respond within 24 hours, but usually much faster.

Rules for booking free tickets:

  • one person can reserve a maximum of 2 tickets for each of the performances/film screenings
  • you can collect your tickets 15 minutes before the performance or film screening starts
  • unclaimed tickets are transferred to people on the reserve list
2024-09-01

Official Festival poster

We are proud to present you the official poster of the 18th edition of the International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults by Anna Kurdziel.

2024-04-21

Invitation to participate!

Impossible Theatre Union have a pleasure to announce officially the Open Call for Applications for participation in the competition programme
of the 18th International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults
"Puppet is a Human Too"

which will be held from 5th to 13th October 2024, Warsaw, Poland.

For more details, please find attached an Open Call, as well as 2024 Application form.

Festival's Regulations

Application form

Please send your completed application to: biuro@uniatn.pl

Deadline for submitting application forms: May 30th 2024

The participants shall be nominated by a Selection Commission. You will be notified about the selection decision not later than 1st of July, 2024.

We hope you will find it interesting and challenging to apply.

Waiting for your proposals!