14/11/2024 - Steve McQueen’s Blitz opens the Polish festival hosted in Torún, which will feature the best in cinematography from around the world between 16–23 November

Opening with Steve McQueen’s Blitz [+see also:
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Blending acclaimed arthouse works and popular cinema, the festival’s Main Competition features, in addition to Blitz, The Girl with the Needle [+see also:
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interview: Magnus von Horn
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film profile] by Edward Berger (USA/UK, DoP Stéphane Fontaine), The Devil’s Bath [+see also:
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interview: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
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interview: Maura Delpero
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film profile] by Tim Mielants (USA/Ireland/Belgium, DoP Frank van den Eeden), Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve (USA/Canada, DoP Greig Fraser), The Brutalist [+see also:
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The Polish Films Competition includes White Courage [+see also:
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interview: Marcin Koszałka
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interview: Mara Tamkovich
film profile] by Mara Tamkovich (Poland, DoP Krzsyztof Trela), Minghun by Jan P. Matuszyński (Poland, DoP Kacper Fertasz), Wrooklyn Zoo [+see also:
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My Place is Here [+see also:
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interview: Meryam Joobeur
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film profile] by Lin Jianjie (China/France/Denmark/Qatar, DoP Zhang Jiahao) and Tatami [+see also:
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interview: Mohammad Rasoulof
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The Polish festival also features several other competition sections, including for directorial debuts, documentary features, documentary shorts, film and art school works, television series and music videos. Rounding out the selection is a retrospective on US cinematographer Edward (Ed) Lachman, a frequent collaborator of Todd Haynes and Ulrich Seidl, and a retrospective of Italian-US director and cinematographer Gianfranco Rosi.

The full Camerimage programme can be explored in full on the festival’s website.