26/11/2012 - The event dedicated to cinematographers is screening 314 films and has awarded its Golden Frog lifetime achievement award to David Lynch

The cinematographer-focused Festival Plus Camerimage, which opened on November 24 in Bydgoszcz, is screening 314 films over seven days and allowing the public to meet 400 cinematographers ands 500 other professionals from the international film industry. On the first evening, David Lynch (photo) received the Golden Frog lifetime achievement award, and the festival was opened by Chris Kenneally’s Side by Side, a documentary in homage to cinematic art compiled from interviews recorded two years ago at Camerimage by the filmmaker and his producer Keanu Reeves.

In the official competition, the jury will have to choose between 15 films, including Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers’ Cloud Atlas (co-produced by the United States, Germany, and Singapore - images by Frank Griebe and John Toll), Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson [+see also:
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For the third year, ("to fill in the gap between the official competition and the one for student films," as stresses the festival’s director Marek Zydowicz) Camerimage has also offered two competitive sections for first films. The first is for directors with, among others, Miguel Angel Jimenez’Chaika [+see also:
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In the festival’s very rich programme, there will also be focuses on Irish and Lithuanian cinema, a European Panorama (including Christian Petzold’s Barbara [+see also:
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(Translated from French)