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WARSAW 2016

The Warsaw Film Festival announces Polish titles

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- The films announced include the world premiere of Polish co-production True Crimes, starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg

The Warsaw Film Festival announces Polish titles
True Crimes by Alexandros Avranas (© Bartosz Mrozowski)

The Warsaw Film Festival has announced the Polish titles that will screen in its competitions, as well as two special world-premiere screenings. The A-list festival will take place from 7-16 October 2016.

The festival will host the world premiere of Alexandros AvranasTrue Crimes [+see also:
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, a US-Polish co-production. Based on true events, the film – starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg – tells the tale of a newly published novel that seemingly holds the key to an unsolved murder. Also having its world premiere will be Tales of Mexico [+see also:
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, a Mexican-Polish co-production in which eight different directors (Carlos Carrera, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Contreras, Alfonso Pineda Uolla, Alejandro Valle, Ivan Avila DuenasNatalia Beristain) tell eight different stories set in the same room over a period of 100 years.

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In the festival’s International Competition, audiences will be able to see the world premiere of Memories of Summer [+see also:
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, Adam Guziński’s story of a boy living in a small provincial Polish town in the 1970s, and the Polish premieres of The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me [+see also:
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interview: Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal
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, Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal’s film loosely based on Camus’ novel The Stranger, which previously played at Locarno, and Clair Obscur [+see also:
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 by Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Turkey/Poland).

In the festival's 1-2 Competition (for first or second features), the Lithuanian-Polish co-production The Saint [+see also:
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interview: Andrius Blazevicius
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will receive its world premiere. The film is about a man who loses his job and looks for a man who has claimed to see Jesus. The movie is the debut by Lithuanian director Andrius BlaževičiusPark [+see also:
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interview: Sofia Exarchou
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by Sofia Exarchou (Greece/Poland) and Playground [+see also:
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interview: Bartosz M. Kowalski
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 by Bartosz M Kowalski (Poland) will also be in the section.

 

In the Documentary Competition, Polish filmmaker Anna Zamęcka will present Communion [+see also:
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