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POLISH FILMS COMPETITION 2016 LINE-UP!
Added: 20.10.2016
We announce the line-up of the Polish Films Competition of the 24th edition of the
International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE. In this competition
the award goes to both the cinematographer and the director of the winning film.
Blindness
Colonel Julia Brystigier, an officer in Stalinist Poland, was called ‘Bloody Luna’ because she
physically and psychologically tortured the prisoners interrogated in the Ministry of Public
Security. She also supervised the arrest of the Primate of Poland of that time, Cardinal Stefan
Wyszyński. And so, in the early 1960s Brystigier starts wanting to meet him.
Polish title: Zaćma
Director: Ryszard Bugajski
Cinematographer: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Produced by: RB FILM Sp. z o. o.
Polish distributor: KINO ŚWIAT Sp. z o. o.
Ederly
The town of Ederly, which exists beyond time on the border of dreams and reality, is visited by a
conservation officer, Słow, who has an assignment in the local church. Słow feels cornered by
the town’s inhabitants: first he meets a rather arrogant boy, and then he is mistaken for the lost
son and brother of some strange people in a villa. An attempt to transfer the drama of dreams to
the screen, stylistically closest to black comedy.
Polish title: Ederly
Director: Piotr Dumała
Cinematographer: Adam Sikora
Produced by: Andersa Street Art and Media
Polish distributor: Żółty Szalik
Forest, 4AM
Frost, a man in his prime, seems to be on top of the world – he has both money and a good job.
One day he leaves his corporation with no possibility of return. A forest, 4 o’clock, several years
later. In a mud hut dwells a half-wild, filthy, scruffy-looking man who is dressed in rags but lives in
harmony with nature. It’s Frost! When his isolated shelter is visited by the 13-year-old Jadzia, he
is forced to change his life once again.
Polish title: Las, 4 rano
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Cinematographer: Jan Jakub Kolski
Produced by: Wytwórnia Doświadczalna sp z o. o.
Polish distributor: Wrocławska Fundacja Filmowa
Happiness of the World, The
The story of the inhabitants of an exceptional tenement in Silesia, told in two parts. The first one
takes place in the summer of 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, and the second
one after the war. All men living in the building, no matter their age or nationality, yearn for their
sensual neighbour Róża. She shows them a magical world that they were never able to access
before.
Polish title: Szczęście świata
Director: Michał Rosa
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Produced by: Argomedia Sp. z o. o.
Polish distributor: KINO ŚWIAT Sp. z o. o.
High Frontier, The
After a family tragedy, border patrolman Mateusz goes with his two adolescent sons, Janek and
Tomek, to an isolated hut in the Bieszczady Mountains to sort out their relationship. There they
will have to fight for survival against the ‘wild’ nature, and their situation is further complicated by
the appearance of the mysterious Konrad. A psychological thriller inspired by real events.
Polish title: Na granicy
Director: Wojciech Kasperski
Cinematographer: Łukasz Żal
Produced by: Metro Films Sp.z o. o.
Polish distributor: KINO ŚWIAT Sp. z o. o.
Last Family, The
Warsaw, 1977. Tomek Beksiński, a popular music critic and film translator, moves to a new flat.
Nearby, in the same housing estate, live his parents – his mother Zofia, who is concerned about
her son’s oversensitivity and eccentricity, and his father Zdzisław, an outstanding painter with a
remarkable personality. The film shows the dramatic life of the family, which also includes Zofia’s
and Zdzisław’s mothers.
Polish title: Ostatnia rodzina
Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
Cinematographer: Kacper Fertacz
Produced by: Aurum Film Bodzak Hickinbotham Sp. j.
Polish distributor: KINO ŚWIAT Sp. z o. o.
Playground
Final day of school in a small Polish town. It's the very last chance for a 12 year old Gabrysia to
tell her classmate that she had fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and
blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate talk spins out of control
and leads to an unexpected and tragic ending.
Polish title: Plac zabaw
Director: Bartosz Maciej Kowalski
Cinematographer: Mateusz Skalski
Produced by: FILM IT Sp. z o. o.
Polish distributor: NEXT FILM Sp. z o. o.
United States of Love
A look at the political transformation in Poland, focusing not on the political, but the
psychological. It is the beginning of 1990, and the nation is finally free, although they can still feel
the atmosphere of the bygone era. The new reality fills four seemingly happy women of different
ages with fear, but also triggers their suppressed desires. Agata, Renata, Marzena, and
Marzena’s sister Iza all strongly wish to change their lives.
Polish title: Zjednoczone Stany Miłości
Director: Tomasz Wasilewski
Cinematographer: Oleg Mutu
Produced by: Manana sp. z o. o.
Polish distributor: Agencja Promocji MAÑANA