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This section of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE will present recent Polish film productions. During the Festival, they will be judged by the members of the international Jury consisting of internationally acclaimed cinematographers.
The Cinematographer and Director of the best movie will be awarded at the Closing Ceremony.
The members of the Jury:
33 SCENES FROM LIFE (33 Sceny z życia)
Cinematographer: Michał Englert
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
In the beginning 33-year-old Julia has got everything: loving parents, a talented husband who is enjoying success abroad and a job which is simultaneously her greatest passion. In a mere month’s time her life changes irrevocably and she has to mature. The sudden illness and death of her mother, witnessed up close, turn out to be far different than anything that could be imagined. The tragedy veers into absurdity and in dramatic situations, instead of the expected tears, there comes a smile.
BEFORE TWILIGHT (Jeszcze nie wieczór)
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń
Director: Jacek Bławut
A film about love, transience and thespians - their eccentricities and dreams of performing one more, perhaps the last, great act. A new worldly-wise inmate arrives at the Veteran Actor’s Home. Accompanied by two young people, he plans to entertain the pensioners, grown weary of daily routine, with a staging of Goethe’s Faust.
BOISKO BEZDOMNYCH
Cinematographer: Jacek Petrycki
Director: Kasia Adamik
Priest, Astronaut, Minister, Madman, Miner, Farmer and a guy with a jail record... What could they all have in common? The same place of residence - Warsaw Central Railway Station. Soon they will be joined by an ex-footballer. Once they meet together, they will hang out, become friends and form a team.
DROWSINESS (Senność)
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Director: Magdalena Piekorz
The story of people who have found their lives slipping through their fingers, who are stuck in emotional apathy and lead a life that is not truly their own. Róża, an actress who cannot work due to narcolepsy, Adam, a young gay doctor, and gravely ill Robert, a burnt-out writer, having made wrong life decisions, have grown a protective shell against the surrounding reality. A coincidence makes their paths cross and life provides them with an opportunity to shake their emotional drowsiness off.
FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA (Cztery noce z Anną)
Cinematographer: Adam Sikora
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Leon, who works at a medical waste incinerator plant in a provincial town, falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get closer to her. He drugs her with sleeping pills and every night sneaks into her room through the window. He spends long hours by the side of the sleeping woman and becomes more and more daring with each visit.
LITTLE MOSCOW (Mała Moskwa)
Cinematographer: Tomasz Dobrowolski
Director: Waldemar Krzystek
Jura, a former pilot in the Soviet air force, comes back to Legnica after 30 years to visit the grave of his wife, Wiera. He is accompanied by his wife’s grown-up daughter. They go to see the places where years ago the biggest drama of their lives took place. On this journey they hope to liberate themselves from the trauma of the past...
MR. KUKA'S ADVICE (Lekcje Pana Kuki)
Cinematographer: Wojciech Szepel
Director: Dariusz Gajewski
Based on the bestselling novel by Radek Knapp. Waldemar, a Polish youngster, is making his way to Vienna on a cheap Polish bus-trip. To prepare for this first encounter with “The Golden West", he has soaked up endless wisdom by his somewhat strange neigbour, Mr. Kuka, who is a self-proclaimed expert. On his trip, Waldemar will discover that Mr. Kuka's recommendations are well weird.
SCRATCH (Rysa)
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Director: Michał Rosa
Present-day Cracow, academic circles. Jan and Joanna have been happily married for many years. One day an anonymously delivered information reveals a dark secret about the past of Joanna’s husband. Unconfirmed suspicion casts a shadow on their relationship.
SPLINTERS (Drzazgi)
Cinematographer: Marek Traskowski
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca
A contemporary comedy-drama featuring few days in the lives of three young people living in one of Silesian industrial towns. Bartek, Marta, and Robert are like splinters: sharply alone and alienated, but also rough and able to get under one’s skin… Their life paths cross during another seemingly ordinary and grey weekend. Truly, they haven’t intended to meet; truly, they shouldn’t have met; truly, Fate gave them no choice. The leitmotiv of the movie is a need of love and a constant search for it.
UNMOVED MOVER (Nieruchomy poruszyciel)
Cinematographer: Karina Kleszczewska
Director: Łukasz Barczyk
A contemporary small town is the setting of the film and the space where the events take place is the protagonists’ imagination: a factory manager who goes by the pseudonym The General and Teresa, his subordinate, who unleashes his wildest instincts, desires, urges to dominate and own her. We enter the world in which the characters are driven by instincts emerging from their primary, repressed nature.
The Cinematographer and Director of the best movie will be awarded at the Closing Ceremony.
The members of the Jury:
- Michael Barrett (cinematographer - You Don’t Mess With The Zohan; Bobby; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
- Remy Chevrin (cinematographer - Love Songs; Monsieur Ibrahim; My Wife Is an Actress)
- Gavin Finney (cinematographer - St. Trinian's; The Flying Scotsman; Keeping Mum; Alex & Emma)
- Don McAlpine (cinematographer - Moulin Rouge!; Romeo + Juliet; Predator; Tempest)
- Kramer Morgenthau (cinematographer - Dogtown; Fracture; Empire)
- Gyula Pados (cinematographer - Fateless; Kalandarok; Control; The Duchess)
- Tom Stern (cinematographer - Changeling; Letters from Iwo Jima; Mystic River)
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33 SCENES FROM LIFE (33 Sceny z życia)
Cinematographer: Michał Englert
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
In the beginning 33-year-old Julia has got everything: loving parents, a talented husband who is enjoying success abroad and a job which is simultaneously her greatest passion. In a mere month’s time her life changes irrevocably and she has to mature. The sudden illness and death of her mother, witnessed up close, turn out to be far different than anything that could be imagined. The tragedy veers into absurdity and in dramatic situations, instead of the expected tears, there comes a smile.
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BEFORE TWILIGHT (Jeszcze nie wieczór)
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń
Director: Jacek Bławut
A film about love, transience and thespians - their eccentricities and dreams of performing one more, perhaps the last, great act. A new worldly-wise inmate arrives at the Veteran Actor’s Home. Accompanied by two young people, he plans to entertain the pensioners, grown weary of daily routine, with a staging of Goethe’s Faust.
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BOISKO BEZDOMNYCH
Cinematographer: Jacek Petrycki
Director: Kasia Adamik
Priest, Astronaut, Minister, Madman, Miner, Farmer and a guy with a jail record... What could they all have in common? The same place of residence - Warsaw Central Railway Station. Soon they will be joined by an ex-footballer. Once they meet together, they will hang out, become friends and form a team.
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DROWSINESS (Senność)
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Director: Magdalena Piekorz
The story of people who have found their lives slipping through their fingers, who are stuck in emotional apathy and lead a life that is not truly their own. Róża, an actress who cannot work due to narcolepsy, Adam, a young gay doctor, and gravely ill Robert, a burnt-out writer, having made wrong life decisions, have grown a protective shell against the surrounding reality. A coincidence makes their paths cross and life provides them with an opportunity to shake their emotional drowsiness off.
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FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA (Cztery noce z Anną)
Cinematographer: Adam Sikora
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Leon, who works at a medical waste incinerator plant in a provincial town, falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get closer to her. He drugs her with sleeping pills and every night sneaks into her room through the window. He spends long hours by the side of the sleeping woman and becomes more and more daring with each visit.
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LITTLE MOSCOW (Mała Moskwa)
Cinematographer: Tomasz Dobrowolski
Director: Waldemar Krzystek
Jura, a former pilot in the Soviet air force, comes back to Legnica after 30 years to visit the grave of his wife, Wiera. He is accompanied by his wife’s grown-up daughter. They go to see the places where years ago the biggest drama of their lives took place. On this journey they hope to liberate themselves from the trauma of the past...
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MR. KUKA'S ADVICE (Lekcje Pana Kuki)
Cinematographer: Wojciech Szepel
Director: Dariusz Gajewski
Based on the bestselling novel by Radek Knapp. Waldemar, a Polish youngster, is making his way to Vienna on a cheap Polish bus-trip. To prepare for this first encounter with “The Golden West", he has soaked up endless wisdom by his somewhat strange neigbour, Mr. Kuka, who is a self-proclaimed expert. On his trip, Waldemar will discover that Mr. Kuka's recommendations are well weird.
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SCRATCH (Rysa)
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Director: Michał Rosa
Present-day Cracow, academic circles. Jan and Joanna have been happily married for many years. One day an anonymously delivered information reveals a dark secret about the past of Joanna’s husband. Unconfirmed suspicion casts a shadow on their relationship.
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SPLINTERS (Drzazgi)
Cinematographer: Marek Traskowski
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca
A contemporary comedy-drama featuring few days in the lives of three young people living in one of Silesian industrial towns. Bartek, Marta, and Robert are like splinters: sharply alone and alienated, but also rough and able to get under one’s skin… Their life paths cross during another seemingly ordinary and grey weekend. Truly, they haven’t intended to meet; truly, they shouldn’t have met; truly, Fate gave them no choice. The leitmotiv of the movie is a need of love and a constant search for it.
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UNMOVED MOVER (Nieruchomy poruszyciel)
Cinematographer: Karina Kleszczewska
Director: Łukasz Barczyk
A contemporary small town is the setting of the film and the space where the events take place is the protagonists’ imagination: a factory manager who goes by the pseudonym The General and Teresa, his subordinate, who unleashes his wildest instincts, desires, urges to dominate and own her. We enter the world in which the characters are driven by instincts emerging from their primary, repressed nature.
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